IJET-34 (5–6 September 2026)
Speaker
Tomoko Aoyama
Tomoko Aoyama FAHA is an Honorary Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of Queensland. She has written Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature (2008) and many research papers on modern Japanese literature and culture, on topics concerning gender, sexuality, parody and humour. She has also translated Japanese literary and scholarly texts into English, including two novels by Kanai Mieko (Indian Summer, with Barbara Hartley; Oh, Tama!, with Paul McCarthy), shorter fiction, essays and criticism by Mishima Yukio and others, and philosopher Tsurumi Shunsuke’s important late work, The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume (with Penny Bailey, Trans Pacific Press, 2023).