Professor Linda Flores

Professor Linda Flores is Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College 

She is on research leave from March 2023-October 2024 .

Faculty / College Affiliations:

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies; Pembroke College

Research Interests:

• 3.11 writing and Japanese trauma fiction
• contemporary Japanese literature
• Tōhoku literature and culture
• women’s writing
• gender theory
• comparative literature

Courses Taught on the MSc/MPhil in Japanese Studies

• Modern Japanese Literature in Translation (lecture series)
• Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Fiction (MSc)

Current Projects:

• Contemporary Tōhoku literature and culture

Recent Events and Presentations:

• 'After the end: post-traumatic time in Ishizawa Mai’s Kai ni tsuzuku basho nite (In a place following the seashells, 2021)', European Association for Japanese Studies, August 2023
• Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies 2023: “Reconfiguring the Concept of Religion in Modern Japan”: ​​​https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/event/5th-tanaka-symposium-reconfiguring-concept-religion-modern-japan
• Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies 2022: “Humans and Nature in Crisis: Japanese Literature and the Environmental Humanities”: https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/event/4th-tanaka-symposium-japanese-studies

Recent Publications: 

• Flores, Linda, and Barbara Geilhorn, eds. Literature after Fukushima: From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2023.
• Flores, Linda, “From That Day Forward: Tōhoku, 3.11, and ‘Memory Landscapes’”, in Linda Flores and Barbara Geilhorn, eds., Literature after Fukushima : From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2023.
• Flores, Linda and Barbara Geilhorn, “Literature after Fukushima: An Introduction”, in Linda Flores and Barbara Geilhorn, eds., Literature after Fukushima : From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2023.
• Flores, Linda M. "Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima by Tamaki Mihic". The Journal of Japanese Studies 48.1 (2022) (Review article).
• Flores, Linda, “Takahashi Takako no Sora no hate made to Moriakku no Terezu Dekeru” in Noami Mariko, ed., Sekai bungaku to Nihon bungaku. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2019.
• Flores, Linda. "Kouno Fumiyo's Hi No Tori ('Bird of the Sun') Series as Documentary Manga: Memory and 3.11." Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 12 (2019).
• Flores, Linda. "In Her Footsteps: The Legacy of Professor Mizuta Noriko." Review of Japanese Culture and Society 30 (2018).
• Flores, Linda and Bullock, Julia, Guest Editors. Scholar, Poet, Educator: Festschrift Issue in Honor of Mizuta Noriko, Review of Japanese Culture and Society 30 (2018).
• Flores, Linda. "Matrices of Time, Space and Text: Intertextuality and Trauma in Two 3.11 Narratives." Japan Review 31 (2017): Vol.31.
• Flores, Linda. "Narrating Trauma in Takahashi Takako's 'Sora No Hate Made': Perverse Motherhood." Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (2017).
• Flores, Linda. "War Brides as Transnational Subjects in Mori Reiko's 'The Town of the Mockingbird'." Ca'Foscari Japanese Studies (2017).