Yuko Ogawa
Teaching Postdoc
Member Of:
- School of Modern Languages
Overview
Yuko Ogawa received her Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from Purdue University. She has taught Japanese language and literature since 2010. She joined the School of Modern Languages in 2019 as a teaching postdoc.
Her primary field of research is contemporary Japanese literature by female authors, who debuted after Japan's peak of the bubble economy in the late 1980s.
Education:
- Ph.D., Purdue University
Interests
Research Fields:
- Literary and Cultural Studies
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
Issues:
- Gender
- Cinema Studies
- East-Asian Studies
- Feminism
- Language and Popular Culture
- Literary Theory
- Literature
- Modernity
- Post-Modernism
- Psychoanalysis
- World Literature
Courses
- JAPN-1002: Elementary Japanese II
- JAPN-2001: Intermediate Japanese I
- JAPN-2002: Intermediate Japanese II
- JAPN-4750: Japn Discourse & Grammar
All Publications
Conferences
- Dealing with Relationships of Humans and Nonhumans - Kawakami Hiromi’s “God” (1994), “Luncheon on the Grass” (1998), and “A Story Begins” (1996)
In: SWCAS (Southwest Conference on Asian Studies)
Date: 2020
- Spiritual Healing in Yoshimoto Banana’s “Blood and Water,” Honeymoon, and The Lake
In: MCAA (Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs)
Date: 2019