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Keiko Miyajima
Keiko Miyajima holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. As an adjunct lecturer, she has taught Japanese language, literature, culture and manga/anime at Adelphi University, Hofstra University, CUNY Queens College and CUNY John Jay College. Her current research examines the representations of gender and sexuality in manga, in particular in shojo and boys’ love manga. Her published chapters and articles ‘XX, XY, and XXY: Genderqueer bodies in Hagio Moto’s science fiction manga’ in the LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader (University Press of Mississippi, forthcoming), ‘I–thou relationships in tourism: The case of cross-cultural interaction between Okinawan locals and Japanese tourists’ (co-authored with G. Henning and S. Kawabata, Tourism Culture & Communication, 11, 2011) and ‘Spatializing the self: Places of experience in Henry James, William James, and Kitaro Nishida’ (The Journal of the American Literature Society of Japan, 40, 2004).
Contact: Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Adelphi University, 1 South Avenue, Garden City, NY, 11530, USA.