YOSHIO, Hitomi

Name： YOSHIO, Hitomi
Title： Professor
Research Field： Modern and Contemporary Literature, Gender Studies, Literary Translation
Biography：
Hitomi Yoshio’s research focuses on the intersection of modern and contemporary Japanese literature, gender studies, and translation studies. She has published articles in both Japanese and English on topics including gender and authorship, feminism, reproductive justice, and post-3.11 literature. She is currently co-editing a book on feminist perspectives on translation in Japanese literature. In addition to her academic work, Yoshio is the translator of Imamura Natsuko’s This Is Amiko, Do You Copy? (Pushkin Press, 2023) and co-translator of Kawakami Mieko’s Ashes of Spring (Amazon Audible, 2025) and Sisters in Yellow (Knopf, 2026). She has also translated works by the early 20th century Japanese authors Higuchi Ichiyō and Osaki Midori. Her translations have appeared in Granta, The Atlantic, Freeman’s, Words without Borders, Monkey, World Literature Today, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, and The Penguin Book of the International Short Story.

Yoshio received her B.A. in English from Yale University, M.A. in English from the University of Tokyo, and Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. She previously taught at Florida International University (2012-2016) and was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (2022-2024).