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Keiko Miyajima

Keiko Miyajima holds a Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate Center. 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 include ""Still Pretty, Ain’t She?": The Female Gaze and the Queer Monstrous Feminine in Itō Junji’s Tomie” in Horror and Comics, edited by Julia Round (University of Wales, May 2025)", “’Don Your Armor!’: The Politics of Dress in Higashimura Akiko’s Princess Jellyfish (Kuragehime)” in Women's Voices in Manga: Japanese Cultural and Historical Perspectives, edited by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase and Masami Toku  (Springer, January 2025), "XX, XY, and XXY: Genderqueer bodies in Hagio Moto’s science fiction manga" in the LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader (University Press of Mississippi, 2022), “Queering the Palate: The Erotics and Politics of Food in Japanese Gourmet Manga,” in Studies in Comics, 11.2, 2021, "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).