Dr Juliana Buriticá Alzate
I am the Departmental Lecturer in Modern Japanese Literature for the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and I am also a Japanese Studies tutor at Pembroke college. I am a researcher and educator in the fields of Japanese Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies, as well as a literary translator. My research brings together queer and feminist theory to explore representations of mothering and related embodied experiences in contemporary Japanese fiction. I have translated Aoko Matsuda’s Where The Wild Ladies Are into Spanish (Quaterni 2022) and a collection of poetry by Hiromi Itō (Insensata, forthcoming 2025). I will be teaching courses on trauma literature, gender and literature, survey lectures on Modern Japanese Literature, and literary translation. I am happy to provide support for the students at Pembroke on matters related to academic and personal guidance, including sharing about my personal experience living in Japan.
Publications:
“Breastfeeding, Folklore and Nature: Reading Oyamada Hiroko’s ‘Spider Lilies’ and Matsuda Aoko’s ‘Enoki.’” Japanese Language and Literature Journal, vol. 58, no.2, 2024, pp. 225-251.
Co-authored with Letizia Guarini.“Narrating Bodies: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Breastfeeding in Contemporary Japanese Literature.” Japanese Language and Literature Journal, vol. 58, no.2, 2024, pp. 159-170.
Co-authored with Hitomi Yoshio. “Reimagining the Past, Present, and the Future of Reproductive Bodies in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction: Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World.” The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature, edited by Beth Widmaier Capo & Laura Lazzari, Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 465-486.
“Shocking Readers and Shaking Taboos: Maternal Body and Affects in Itō Hiromi’s Work.” Maternal Regret, edited by Andrea O’Reilly, Demeter Press, 2022, pp.75-92.
“Embodied Survival and Demythologization in Kirino Natsuo’s Tokyo jima.” Japan Studies Review, vol. 25, 2021, pp. 31-61.
“Embodiment and Its Violence in Kawakami Mieko’s Chichi to ran: Menstruation, Beauty Ideals, and Mothering.” Japanese Language and Literature Journal, vol. 54, no.2, 2020, pp. 514-549.
“Voces de mujeres en la literatura japonesa: historias del cuerpo femenino” (Women voices in Japanese literature: female bodily stories). Nuevas aproximaciones a la literatura japonesa (New approaches to Japanese literature), edited by Pau Pitarch Fernández, Ed. Bellaterra, April 2020, pp. 251-272. (Winner of the ICAS Book Prize 2021, Spanish/Portuguese Language Edition, in the category of Edited Volume Accolade)
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