- 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 women writers, canonization and literary history, reproductive justice, and post-3.11 literature. Most recently, she co-edited the book, Making Translation Visible: Voices, Spaces, and Communities in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature, currently under review. As a literary translator, Yoshio’s publications include Imamura Natsuko’s This Is Amiko, Do You Copy? (Pushkin Press), and Kawakami Mieko’s Ashes of Spring (Amazon Audible; co-translation), Sisters in Yellow (forthcoming; Knopf; co-translation), and Dreams of Love, Etc. (forthcoming; Knopf). She has also translated works by modern Japanese authors such as Higuchi Ichiyō, Osaki Midori, and Uchida Hyakken.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).
