Rethinking Gender in the Postgender Era
Rutgers University
November 6 - 8, 2009
• PROGRAM
**Friday, November 6**
8:30 Registration, 4th floor, Alexander Library
9:00 WELCOME, SCC Lecture Hall: Paul Schalow, Rutgers University.
9:15-10:45 Panel #1 MODES AND GENRES
“Beyond ‘Women’s Literature’: The Genre Fiction of Hirabayashi Taiko and Tsuboi Sakae”Joanna Sturiano, Stanford University
“Gendering Children’s Literature”Joan Ericson, Colorado College
“On the Edge of Representation: Sata Ineko’s Kurenai”Yukiko Shigeto, New York University
11:00-12:30 Panel #2 ECO-FEMINISM
“Eco-feminism and the ‘Zero Point of the World’ in Hagio Moto’s Star Red”Margherita Long, University of California Riverside
“Cultural Politics of the ‘Girl’ in Postbubble Japan.”Rachel DiNitto, College of William and Mary
“Japanese Ecofeminisms: Gender and Environmental Crises in Japanese Literature”Karen Thornber, Harvard University
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel #3 TRANSFORMATIONS
“The Fatal Charm of The Real Onnagata in Enchi’s Works: An analysis of the work Onnagata Ichidai from a contemporary gender perspective”Daniela Moro, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
“Dial ‘L’ for Love—The Romantic Cell Phone Tones of Ren’ai Shōsetsu”Eileen B. Mikals-Adachi, Eckerd College
“Re-imagining Ozu: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Café Lumière and the Contemporary Tokyo Woman”Barbara Thornbury, Temple University3:15-4:45 Panel #4 MASCULINITIES
“’Allied Masculinities’ and the Absent Presences of the Others: Re-Masculinization of Japanese Soldiers in the Age of American War in Iraq—An Analysis of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima”Nakamura Rika, Seijō University
“Treasonous Masculinity: The Osaka Man in Trans-war Fiction”Michael Cronin, University of California, Irvine
“Enjirō’s Revenge: Parodic Constructions of Masculinity in Early Modern Kibyōshi”Dylan McGee, SUNY New Paltz
5:00-6:30 Panel #5 IN HOMAGE OF EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
“Perversely Reading Manga”Mary A. Knighton, University of Tokyo, Washington and Lee University
“Beyond Paranoia with Sedgwick and Sōseki.”Keith Vincent, Boston University
“Shōjo Culture in Kamikaze Girls”Kotani Mari, Independent Scholar & Critic
“Between Men in Izumi Kyōka’s Yōken kibun”Nina Cornyetz, New York University
Discussant: Takemura Kazuko. Ochanomizu University.
7:00-8:00 Buffet, Rutgers Student Center- Graduate Student Lounge
8:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Rutgers Student Center- Graduate Student Lounge: SusanNapier, Tufts University.
**Saturday, November 7**Note: Alexander Library opens at 10:00 AM
10:15-11:45 Panel #6 PERFORMANCE
“Performance of Gender: Representation of Femininity and Masculinity in Kabuki”Galia Todorova (Petkova) Gabrovska, SOAS, University of London
“In Pursuit of Success: Kanshi Poet Hara Saihin’s Masquerade of Masculinity”Mari Nagase, Augustana College
“A Woman Named Otoko: Moral Certainty and Gender Indeterminacy in Kyokutei Bakin’s Eight Dogs”Glynne Walley, University of Oregon
12:00-1:30 Panel #7 FIGURES AND PERSONAE
“Adrift in a Sea of Squalor: Two Hobo-Sages in Mori Makiko’s Yellow Harlot Collection”Maryellen Mori, Independent scholar
“Otto, Teishu, Hanryo or Shujin? Minako Ōba’s Refreshing but Still Radical View of Marriage”Michiko Wilson, University of Virginia
“From the Muse to the Dandy to the Guerrilla: Takeda Yuriko’s Photographic Eye.”Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
1:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Panel #8フェミニズム経過以後の現代日本女性作家のジェンダー再考―大庭みな子、川上弘美、多和田葉子についてRethinking Gender of Contemporary Japanese Women Writers Having Experienced Feminism—Ōba Minako, Kawakami Hiromi, and Tawada Yōko
「大庭みな子の詩における「山姥」というジェンダーを超越したメタファーについて」真野孝子 城西国際大学“Yamanba (a mountain witch) beyond Gender: Reading Ōba Minako’s Poetry”Mano Takako, Jōsai International University
「川上弘美の『センセイの鞄』、「蛇を踏む」―家族小説の崩壊から「他者」の発見」伊原美好 城西国際大学Ihara Miyoshi, Jōsai International University
多和田葉子と尾崎翠にみる「変身」と「分身」宮崎紗英子 城西国際大学“’The Metamorphosis’ or ‘the Other Self’ in Yōko Tawada and Midori Osaki”Miyazaki Saeko, Jōsai International University
4:15-5:45 Panel #9 WRITING AS PERFORMATIVE REPRODUCTION: GENDER, GENRE, AND LITERARY MODELS IN OBA MINAKO'S WORK.
“Recreating woman’s identity in a trans-cultural in-between space: Ōba Minako’s Oregon yume jūya”Paola Scrolavezza. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
“A nomadic sensibility: Wandering, belonging and identity in Ōba Minako’s early works”Emanuela Costa, University of Naples
“Modernity reconsidered: performative reproductions in Ōba Minako’s Funakuimushi.”Francesco Comotti, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Discussant: Sharalyn Orbaugh, University of British Columbia.
6:30-9:30 Dinner and SPECIAL ADDRESS, Douglass Campus Center-Faculty DiningRoom: Mizuta Noriko, Jōsai International University.
**Sunday, November 8**Note: Alexander Library opens at 12:00 noon
12:15-1:45 Panel #10 BAD MOTHERS?: THE EMERGENCE OF TRANSGRESSIVE PARENTING IN LATE-HEIAN NARRATIVE
“Choosey Mothers in the Tale of Nezame: Late Heian Fiction and the Limits of Aristocratic Motherhood”Edith Sarra, Indiana University
“Good Mother, Bad Mother: Reading the Jōjin Ajari no Haha no Shū through the Lens of Gender”Monika Dix, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Male Mother and Female Father: Problematizing Gendered Parenthood in Ariake no Wakare”Robert Khan, University of London SOAS, University of Texas, Austin
2:00-3:30 Panel #11 MODES OF INSCRIPTION
“Women Reading a ‘Masculine Hand’: Minamoto Shitagō (ca. 911-83) and his Female Aristocratic Patrons”Brian Steininger, Yale University
“Spatially Conceived: The Female Gender, Desire, and Identity in Yi Yang Ji’s Yuhi”Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University
“Shono Yoriko and the Imaginary to Overcome Neo-Liberalism.”Robin Tierney, University of Iowa
3:45-5:15 Panel #12 REVISITING GENDERED IDENTITY IN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURYLITERATURE AND FILM
“Gendered Virtues and Social Progress: The Case of Otto no teisō”Michiko Suzuki, Indiana University
“The Spectacle of the Hermaphrodite in Tanizaki’s Early Decadent Literature”Leslie Winston, Waseda University
“Tachibana Teijirō and Shinpa Melodrama”Jim Reichert, Stanford University
Discussant: Douglas Slaymaker, University of Kentucky.
5:15 CLOSING REMARKS: Janet Walker, Rutgers University.
**Friday, November 6**
8:30 Registration, 4th floor, Alexander Library
9:00 WELCOME, SCC Lecture Hall: Paul Schalow, Rutgers University.
9:15-10:45 Panel #1 MODES AND GENRES
“Beyond ‘Women’s Literature’: The Genre Fiction of Hirabayashi Taiko and Tsuboi Sakae”Joanna Sturiano, Stanford University
“Gendering Children’s Literature”Joan Ericson, Colorado College
“On the Edge of Representation: Sata Ineko’s Kurenai”Yukiko Shigeto, New York University
11:00-12:30 Panel #2 ECO-FEMINISM
“Eco-feminism and the ‘Zero Point of the World’ in Hagio Moto’s Star Red”Margherita Long, University of California Riverside
“Cultural Politics of the ‘Girl’ in Postbubble Japan.”Rachel DiNitto, College of William and Mary
“Japanese Ecofeminisms: Gender and Environmental Crises in Japanese Literature”Karen Thornber, Harvard University
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel #3 TRANSFORMATIONS
“The Fatal Charm of The Real Onnagata in Enchi’s Works: An analysis of the work Onnagata Ichidai from a contemporary gender perspective”Daniela Moro, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
“Dial ‘L’ for Love—The Romantic Cell Phone Tones of Ren’ai Shōsetsu”Eileen B. Mikals-Adachi, Eckerd College
“Re-imagining Ozu: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Café Lumière and the Contemporary Tokyo Woman”Barbara Thornbury, Temple University3:15-4:45 Panel #4 MASCULINITIES
“’Allied Masculinities’ and the Absent Presences of the Others: Re-Masculinization of Japanese Soldiers in the Age of American War in Iraq—An Analysis of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima”Nakamura Rika, Seijō University
“Treasonous Masculinity: The Osaka Man in Trans-war Fiction”Michael Cronin, University of California, Irvine
“Enjirō’s Revenge: Parodic Constructions of Masculinity in Early Modern Kibyōshi”Dylan McGee, SUNY New Paltz
5:00-6:30 Panel #5 IN HOMAGE OF EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
“Perversely Reading Manga”Mary A. Knighton, University of Tokyo, Washington and Lee University
“Beyond Paranoia with Sedgwick and Sōseki.”Keith Vincent, Boston University
“Shōjo Culture in Kamikaze Girls”Kotani Mari, Independent Scholar & Critic
“Between Men in Izumi Kyōka’s Yōken kibun”Nina Cornyetz, New York University
Discussant: Takemura Kazuko. Ochanomizu University.
7:00-8:00 Buffet, Rutgers Student Center- Graduate Student Lounge
8:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Rutgers Student Center- Graduate Student Lounge: SusanNapier, Tufts University.
**Saturday, November 7**Note: Alexander Library opens at 10:00 AM
10:15-11:45 Panel #6 PERFORMANCE
“Performance of Gender: Representation of Femininity and Masculinity in Kabuki”Galia Todorova (Petkova) Gabrovska, SOAS, University of London
“In Pursuit of Success: Kanshi Poet Hara Saihin’s Masquerade of Masculinity”Mari Nagase, Augustana College
“A Woman Named Otoko: Moral Certainty and Gender Indeterminacy in Kyokutei Bakin’s Eight Dogs”Glynne Walley, University of Oregon
12:00-1:30 Panel #7 FIGURES AND PERSONAE
“Adrift in a Sea of Squalor: Two Hobo-Sages in Mori Makiko’s Yellow Harlot Collection”Maryellen Mori, Independent scholar
“Otto, Teishu, Hanryo or Shujin? Minako Ōba’s Refreshing but Still Radical View of Marriage”Michiko Wilson, University of Virginia
“From the Muse to the Dandy to the Guerrilla: Takeda Yuriko’s Photographic Eye.”Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
1:30-2:30 Lunch
2:30-4:00 Panel #8フェミニズム経過以後の現代日本女性作家のジェンダー再考―大庭みな子、川上弘美、多和田葉子についてRethinking Gender of Contemporary Japanese Women Writers Having Experienced Feminism—Ōba Minako, Kawakami Hiromi, and Tawada Yōko
「大庭みな子の詩における「山姥」というジェンダーを超越したメタファーについて」真野孝子 城西国際大学“Yamanba (a mountain witch) beyond Gender: Reading Ōba Minako’s Poetry”Mano Takako, Jōsai International University
「川上弘美の『センセイの鞄』、「蛇を踏む」―家族小説の崩壊から「他者」の発見」伊原美好 城西国際大学Ihara Miyoshi, Jōsai International University
多和田葉子と尾崎翠にみる「変身」と「分身」宮崎紗英子 城西国際大学“’The Metamorphosis’ or ‘the Other Self’ in Yōko Tawada and Midori Osaki”Miyazaki Saeko, Jōsai International University
4:15-5:45 Panel #9 WRITING AS PERFORMATIVE REPRODUCTION: GENDER, GENRE, AND LITERARY MODELS IN OBA MINAKO'S WORK.
“Recreating woman’s identity in a trans-cultural in-between space: Ōba Minako’s Oregon yume jūya”Paola Scrolavezza. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
“A nomadic sensibility: Wandering, belonging and identity in Ōba Minako’s early works”Emanuela Costa, University of Naples
“Modernity reconsidered: performative reproductions in Ōba Minako’s Funakuimushi.”Francesco Comotti, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice
Discussant: Sharalyn Orbaugh, University of British Columbia.
6:30-9:30 Dinner and SPECIAL ADDRESS, Douglass Campus Center-Faculty DiningRoom: Mizuta Noriko, Jōsai International University.
**Sunday, November 8**Note: Alexander Library opens at 12:00 noon
12:15-1:45 Panel #10 BAD MOTHERS?: THE EMERGENCE OF TRANSGRESSIVE PARENTING IN LATE-HEIAN NARRATIVE
“Choosey Mothers in the Tale of Nezame: Late Heian Fiction and the Limits of Aristocratic Motherhood”Edith Sarra, Indiana University
“Good Mother, Bad Mother: Reading the Jōjin Ajari no Haha no Shū through the Lens of Gender”Monika Dix, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Male Mother and Female Father: Problematizing Gendered Parenthood in Ariake no Wakare”Robert Khan, University of London SOAS, University of Texas, Austin
2:00-3:30 Panel #11 MODES OF INSCRIPTION
“Women Reading a ‘Masculine Hand’: Minamoto Shitagō (ca. 911-83) and his Female Aristocratic Patrons”Brian Steininger, Yale University
“Spatially Conceived: The Female Gender, Desire, and Identity in Yi Yang Ji’s Yuhi”Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University
“Shono Yoriko and the Imaginary to Overcome Neo-Liberalism.”Robin Tierney, University of Iowa
3:45-5:15 Panel #12 REVISITING GENDERED IDENTITY IN EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURYLITERATURE AND FILM
“Gendered Virtues and Social Progress: The Case of Otto no teisō”Michiko Suzuki, Indiana University
“The Spectacle of the Hermaphrodite in Tanizaki’s Early Decadent Literature”Leslie Winston, Waseda University
“Tachibana Teijirō and Shinpa Melodrama”Jim Reichert, Stanford University
Discussant: Douglas Slaymaker, University of Kentucky.
5:15 CLOSING REMARKS: Janet Walker, Rutgers University.