研究者情報 - ジェームズ　ウェルカー

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  ジェームズ　ウェルカー   James Welker
  ジェームズ　ウェルカー
   所属   神奈川大学国際日本学部国際文化交流学科

職種教授

■ 主な作品

Transfiguring Women in Late-Twentieth Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans (Hawai'i 2024)	Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia, ed. James Welker (Hawai'i 2022)
『BLが開く扉変容するアジアのセクシュアリティとジェンダー』ジェームズ・ウェルカー編著（青土社 2019年）	Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan, ed. Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker (Mississippi 2015)
Rethinking Japanese Feminisms, ed. Julia C. Bullock, Ayako Kano, and James Welker (Hawai'i, 2018)	"Queer(ing)," ed. James Welker, special issue of Mechademia 13, no. 1 (Spring 2020)
Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities, ed. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker (Lexington, 2007)

■ 専門分野

日本近現代史, ジェンダー・セクシュアリティ・スタディーズ（ジェンダー論）, グローバリゼーション

■ 学歴・学位

1.	2005/08～2010/08	イリノイ大学アーバナ・シャンペーン大学院東アジア言語文化研究科日本研究専攻博士課程修了博士（東アジア言語文化）
2.	1999/04～2003/03	シェフィールド大学大学院東アジア研究科日本研究専攻修士課程（ディスタンス・ラーニング・プログラム）修士課程修了修士（日本研究）

■ 学位等

博士（東アジア言語文化）

■ 著書・論文歴

1.	著書	Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans （単著） 2024/07
2.	著書	Afterword: Boys Love as a World-Shaping Genre Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia, ed. James Welker pp.272-277 （単著） 2022/05
3.	著書	Introduction: Boys Love Media in Its Asian Transfigurations Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia, ed. James Welker pp.1-16 （単著） 2022/05
4.	著書	Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia （共著） 2022/05
5.	著書	『BLの教科書』（共著） 2020/07
6.	著書	Japanese Media and Popular Culture: An Open-Access Digital Initiative of the University of Tokyo （共著） 2020
7.	著書	Queer(ing) (special issue) Mechademia: Second Arc 13(1) （共著） 2020
8.	著書	『BLが開く扉ーー変容するアジアのセクシュアリティとジェンダー』（共著） 2019/10
9.	著書	BLが開く扉——変容するアジアのセクシュアリティとジェンダー（共著） 2019/10
10.	著書	Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History pp.262-268 （共著） 2019
11.	著書	Rethinking Japanese Feminisms （共著） 2018
12.	著書	Rethinking Japanese Feminisms pp.50-67 （単著） 2018
13.	著書	Rethinking Japanese Feminisms pp.1-11 （共著） 2018
14.	著書	『虹色の本棚〜LGBTブックガイド〜』 150-151頁（共著） 2016
15.	著書	Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan （共著） 2015
16.	著書	Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan pp.3-20 （共著） 2015
17.	著書	Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan pp.42-75 （単著） 2015
18.	著書	Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan pp.60-78 （共著） 2015
19.	著書	Girl Reading Girl in Japan pp.160-173 （共著） 2010
20.	著書	AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities pp.46-66 （共著） 2008
21.	著書	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities （共著） 2007
22.	著書	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities pp.181-194 2007
23.	著書	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities pp.225-235 2007
24.	著書	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities pp.31-40 2007
25.	著書	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities pp.167-180 2007
26.	著書	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities pp.195-223 2007
27.	著書	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities pp.153-165 2007
28.	著書	Lesbian Voices: Canada and the World: Theory, Literature, Cinema pp.157-184 （共著） 2006
29.	著書	Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan pp.65-80 （共著） 2005
30.	論文	Mark McLelland and Queer Careers in Japan Studies Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (46) （単著） 2021/12
31.	論文	Queering our Worlds: Remembering Mark McLelland (special issue) Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (46) （共著） 2021/12
32.	論文	Introduction: Queer(ing) Japanese Popular Culture Mechademia: Second Arc 13(1),pp.1-5 （単著） 2020
33.	論文	Review of Pasfield-Neotifou, Sarah, and Cathy Sell, eds. with Queenie Chan. Manga Vision: Cultural and Communicative Perspectives (Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing, 2016). Pacific Affairs 91(1),pp.167-169 （単著） 2018/03
34.	論文	ジェンダー・セクシュアリティ、グローバリゼーションをめぐって神奈川大学評論 88 （共著） 2017/11
35.	論文	Toward a History of "Lesbian History" in Japan Culture, Theory and Critique 58(2) （単著） 2017/04
36.	論文	Bright Lights, Big Dreams: Global Gayness and Privilege in Manila--Review of Bobby Benedicto, Under Bright Lights: Gay Manila and the Global Scene (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014) Cultural Studies Review 22(1),pp.340-45 （単著） 2016/03
37.	論文	倉田嘘『百合男子』に表された百合ファンダムの姿についての一考察ユリイカ 46(15),148-54頁（単著） 2014/12
38.	論文	(Re)Positioning (Asian) Queer Studies GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 20(1-2),pp.181-98 （単著） 2014
39.	論文	Review, Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan, by Jonathan D. Mackintosh (Routledge, 2010) Asian Studies Review 37(3),pp.400-402 （単著） 2013
40.	論文	Review, Tokyo Cyberpunk, by Steven T. Brown (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) Journal of Asian Studies 72(2),pp.470-72 （単著） 2013
41.	論文	Review, Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga, by Jennifer S.Prough (University of Hawai'i Press, 2011) Asian Studies Review 36(4),pp.557-58 （単著） 2012
42.	論文	Translating Women's Liberation, Translating Women's Bodies in 1970s-1980s Japan Rim: Journal of the Asia-Pacific Women's Studies Association: 環太平洋女性学研究会ニュースレター 13(2),xxxviii-xxxvi頁（単著） 2012
43.	論文	Flower Tribes and Female Desire: Complicating Early Female Consumption of Male Homosexuality in Shojo Manga Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime,Manga and the Graphic Arts 6,pp.211-228 （共著） 2011
44.	論文	Review, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliosotti, eds. (MacFarland, 2010) Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in the Asia Pacific (27) （単著） 2011
45.	論文	Telling Her Story: Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community Journal of Lesbian Studies 14(4),pp.359-80 （単著） 2010
46.	論文	Transfiguring the Female: Women and Girls Engaging the Transnational in Late Twentieth Century Japan （単著） 2010
47.	論文	Review, Barbara Summerhawk and Kimberley Hughes, eds., Sparkling Rain and Other Fiction from Japan of Women Who Love Women (Chicago: New Victoria, 2008). Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in the Asia Pacific 20 （単著） 2009/04
48.	論文	書評『男同士――明治文学に於ける男色の表現』 (Jim Reichert著、Stanford University Press,2008年）論叢クィア 1,236-243頁（単著） 2008
49.	論文	Of Queer Import(s): Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia (special issue) 14 （共著） 2006/11
50.	論文	Celebrating Lesbian Sexuality: An Interview with Inoue Meimy, Editor of Japanese Lesbian Erotic Lifestyle Magazine Carmilla Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in the Asia Pacific 12 2006/01
51.	論文	Clandestine Wandering in the World of Women: An Interview with Freelance Journalist "Y" Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in the Asia Pacific 12 2006/01
52.	論文	Lesbian/Gay Studies Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in the Asia Pacific 12 2006/01
53.	論文	Beautiful, Borrowed, and Bent: Boys' Love as Girls' Love in Shojo Manga Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31(3),pp.841-870 （単著） 2006
54.	論文	Introduction: Of Queer Import(s) in Asia Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in the Asia Pacific 14 （共著） 2006
55.	論文	Telling Her Story: Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community Japanstudien 16,pp.119-144 （単著） 2004
56.	論文	Review of Sharon Chalmers, Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan (London: Routledge, 2002) Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in the Asia Pacific 9 （単著） 2003/08
57.	論文	Toward a Pedagogy of Women's Liberation: Freire, the Patriarchy and the Foreign Language Classroom Journal of Engaged Pedagogy 2,pp.193-206 （単著） 2003
58.	論文	Telling Herstory: The Japanese Lesbian Community 1971-2001: Selections From "Komyuniti no rekishi 1971-2001: Nenpyo to intabyu de furikaeru" (Community history 1971-2001: Reflecting back with timelines and interviews) [annotated translation] （単著） 2002
59.	論文	Dramatizing Classroom Activities to Energize and Motivate Students Kinjō Gakuin Daigaku ronshū 41(184),pp.53-62 （単著） 2000/03
60.	論文	A Thematic Week at a Small School The Language Teacher 23(2),pp.48-49 （共著） 1999/02
61.	論文	Lights Up-Drama in the ESL Classroom On JALT'98: Focus on the Classroom pp.14-16 （単著） 1999
62.	論文	Easy English Communication at the Secondary Level: Easy Ways Teachers Who Are Non-Native Speakers Can Use More English in Class (reprint) MIE Journal 5,pp.40-46 （単著） 1996/11
63.	論文	Easy English Communication at the Secondary Level: Easy Ways Teachers Who Are Non-Native Speakers Can Use More English in Class Internet TESL Journal Col. 2, No.7 （単著） 1996/07
64.	論文	The Idea of a Usage Checker: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications of Usage Checking Technology MA Thesis (Bowling Green State University) （単著） 1994
65.	その他	Review, Hagio Moto, Heart of Thomas, trans. Matt Thorn (1974; Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2012) Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime,Manga and the Graphic Arts （単著） 2015/05
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■ 学会発表

1.	2026/05	Boys Love at Fan Events in Southeast Asia: Reading the Room（Mechademia 2026）
2.	2025/06	Global Queer Asias: New Directions（AAS-in-Asia）
3.	2023/11	Overseas Trans* Fans of BL, Yuri, and Trans Media（LGBTQ Issues and the Globalization of "BL"）
4.	2022/03	Boys Love and Yuri as Trans-Formative: Overseas Consumption of BL and Yuri Media and Gender Identity（Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference）
5.	2022/03	From Cool Japan to Cruel Japan: A Roundtable on The Multilayered Effects of Japan's Extreme Border Restrictions on Japanese Studies（Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference）
6.	2021/06	The Yuri Genre in Its Transnational Permutations（Mechademia 2021）
7.	2019/07	Looking Outward, Looking Inward: Kiyooka Sumiko's Transnational, Transhistoric Lesbian Engagements（AAS-in-Asia）
8.	2019/06	Kiyooka Sumiko and the Possibility of a Lesbian Gaze in Late 1960s Japan（Queer History Conference 2019）
9.	2019/03	Photojournalist, Pornographer, Outlaw: Kiyooka Sumiko, Radical Woman Photographer in Postwar Japan（Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting）
10.	2017/06	Was the Women's Liberation Movement Hostile to or Fertile Ground for Lesbian Feminism in Japan?（Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Genders, and Sexualities）
11.	2017/03	Lesbian Studies Avant la Lettre: Resituating Photographer Kiyooka Sumiko（Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting）
12.	2016/03	From Vicarious Voyages to Jumbo Jets: Shojo Manga Artists and Fans Head Abroad in the 1970s and 1980s（Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference）
13.	2016/03	Reading the Liberatory Promise of a Third Gender in(to) Manga（Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting）
14.	2016/02	Is Rezubian to Lesbian as Rajio Is to Radio? Tracing an Alternative "Lesbian" Continuum in Japan（What Is & How to Do LGBT History: Approaches, Methods and Subjects）
15.	2015/06	(Mis)Representing Japan to Western Audiences (roundtable（Asian Studies Conference Japan）
16.	2015/03	Inclusion and Diversity among Fans of Yuri Media in Japan（Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting）
17.	2015/01	Defining Yuri Manga Fandom in Japan: Women and Men Reading and Writing About Girl-Girl Romance Media（15th Annual International Conference on Japanese Studies/the 6th Women's Manga Conference）
18.	2014/11	From Women's Liberation to Lesbian Feminism in Japan: Thinking About Same-Sex Desire Within and Beyond the Uman Ribu Movement（Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting）
19.	2013/04	From Women's Liberation to Lesbian Feminism: Thinking About Same-Sex Desire Within and Beyond the Uman Ribu Movement（Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Japanese Feminisms）
20.	2012/03	Feminist, Lesbian-Feminist, and Commercial Transfigurations of The Hite Report in Japan（Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting）
21.	2011/01	The Revolution Cannot Be Translated: Translation's (Limited) Influence on Discourse of Women's Liberation in 1970s Japan（American Historical Association Annual Meeting）
22.	2010/11	Feminism in Transit(ion): International Travel and Feminist Activism in 1970s Japan（American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting）
23.	2010/03	The Rise and Fall of "uman ribu”: Transnational Flows and the (Re-)Naming of Women's Liberation（Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting）
24.	2009/05	Key Words: Unlocking Histories of Women's Gender and Sexual Liberation in Late Showa Japan（Revisiting Postwar Japan as History: A Twenty Year Check-Up on the State of the Field）
25.	2009/01/29	女の領域を書き直す〜キーワードの語源についての一考察（ジェンダー研究センター研究会）
26.	2008/04	Crossing the Line: The (Homo)Eroticized Male and Queer Female Identifications in Japan（Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting）
27.	2007/06	Thinking Globally, Identifying Locally: Japanese Lesbian Community and Identify Formation in a Global Frame（National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting）
28.	2006/05	What Girls Want with Homo Men: Liberatory Functions of Male Homosexuality for Female Readers in Japan（Global Queeries: Sexualities, Globalities, Postcolonialities）
29.	2006/03	Japanese Colonial Queer: "Perversion" and the Use of Colonial Space（Sexuality Out of Place）
30.	2005/07	Reaching Out from the Margins: Queer Community Formation in an "Aesthete" Magazine for Teenage Girls in Japan（Sexualities, Genders, and Rights in Asia: 1st International Conference of Asian Queer Studies）
31.	2004/07	From The Well of Loneliness to the akarui rezubian: Western Translations and Lesbian Identities（Asian Studies Association of Australia Bi-Annual Meeting）
32.	2003/08	Beautiful, Borrowed, and Bent: Boys' Love as Girls' Love in Shojo Manga（Third International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS3)）
33.	2001/12	From The Cherry Orchard to Sakura no sono: Translating Sexual Identities（AsiaPacifiQueer 3）
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■ 職歴

1.	2011/08～2011/09	城西国際大学ジェンダー・女性学研究所客員研究員（日本学術振興会　特別外国人研究員）
2.	2010/09～2012/08	ブリティッシュ・コロンビア大学人文学部アジア学科ポスドクトラル・ティーチング・フェロー
3.	2009/08～2010/05	イリノイ大学アーバナ・シャンペーン校人文科学部東アジア言語文化学科講師
4.	2008/08～2009/08	お茶の水女子大ジェンダー研究センター研究協力員（フルブライト・ヘイズ大学院博士論文海外研究フェロー）
5.	2007/05～2008/08	イリノイ大学アーバナ・シャンペーン校人文科学部東アジア言語文化学科夏期講座ティーチング・アシスタント
6.	2001/04～2005/03	南山大学外国語学部英米学科専任講師
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■ 社会における活動

1.	2024/12	"Transfiguring the Female in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans," book interview by Jingyi Li
2.	2024/12	What Do BL, Radical Feminism, and the Lesbian Community in Japan Have in Common?
3.	2024/08	On the Interwoven Histories of the Feminist Movement, the Lesbian Communities, and Boys Love in Japan (fan convention talk)
4.	2023/12	"BL in Academia" or "Academia in BL" (fan convention panel)
5.	2023/11	My Notes and Pics from BL, Yuri, and Other Queer Fan Events around the World (fan convention panel)
6.	2023/11	The History of Boys Love: Love between Beautiful Men (Mostly) for Female Fans in Japan (fan convention panel)
7.	2023/08	BL Studies: Academic Perspectives & Your Questions (online fan convention panel)
8.	2023/07	Transfigurações queer: mídia boys love na Ásia” (in English with Portuguese subtitles) (online fan convention talk)
9.	2023/06	An Intro to BL Scholarship with Special Guest: Dr. James Welker
10.	2023	Program Note, BL Metamorphosis (film)
11.	2022/12	BL, Yuri, and Trans* Identities Overseas (fan convention panel)
12.	2022/12	Researching BL and Yuri: A Conversation (online fan convention panel)
13.	2022/08	"Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia" book interview by Linshan Jiang
14.	2022/06	Meet the Editor of and (a Few) Contributors to Queer Transfigurations
15.	2022/06	Overseas Trans* Fans of BL and Yuri (online fan convention panel)
16.	2022/02	「新型コロナで水際対策その影響」 (佐々木風人)
17.	2022	Foreword
18.	2021/12	How BL and Yuri Has Grown over the Decades (online fan convention panel)
19.	2021/12	"Scholars Launch Effort to Assist Peers outside Japan" by Rochelle Kopp
20.	2021/08	Yuricon 20th Anniversary Discussion Event with James Welker, Verena Maser, and Erica Friedman
21.	2021/06	BL Gets Around: Notes from My Research Travels (online fan convention panel)
22.	2020/12	Toward a History of BL (online fan convention panel)
23.	2020/01	"Exploring the Sociocultural Impact of Boys' Love in Asia with James Welker" by Rhys Ureta
24.	2019/09	Boys Love (BL) Manga and Beyond: Tracing the History of a Very Queer Genre (fan convention panel)
25.	2019/08	History of Queer Manga (fan convention panel)
26.	2019/07	On the Circulation and Transformation of Boys Love Media around Asia (fan event panel)
27.	2019/05	Queer Manga: History and Cultural Context (fan convention panel)
28.	2018/12	"Boys Love" in Japan: Manga and So Much More
29.	2018/08	「腐女子は男性同性愛を搾取？LGBT時代に問うBLの功罪」（安楽由紀子）
30.	2015/09	"Japan's Trans-Friendly Comic Book Revolution" by Britt Peterson
31.	2015/08	"Why an Anime Character Can Be Openly Gay in Japan, but You Can't" by Naomi Gingold
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■ 研究課題・受託研究・科研費

1.	2024/04～	グローバル化する＜BL＞と現実のLGBTQ～ラテンアメリカとイスラム圏を中心に基盤研究(B) （キーワード：BL、LGBT、国際比較、ラテンアメリカ、イスラム圏、文化変容、マンガ・アニメ、百合）
2.	2019/04～2023/03	BL等の表現の国際的な広がりと、各国での現実のLGBTとの社会的関係の国際比較基盤研究(B) （キーワード：LGBT、 BL、表現と現実、社会学的意識調査、国際比較、伝播と変容）
3.	2017～2022	クィアなトランスフィギュレーション（変容・変貌・変化)：アジアにおけるボーイズラブ（BL）メディア国際共同研究
4.	2011/07～2011/08	Thinking Globally, Identifying Locally: Re-Envisioning "Women" in Late Twentieth-Century Japan 競争的資金等の外部資金による研究

■ 講師・講演

1.	2026/04	Boys Love Media from Its Japanese (?) Origins to Its Transnational and Transmedia Present to Its AI Future (?)（Taipei (online)）
2.	2026/04	A Contextualized History of Boys Love (BL) Manga: A Peek into Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan（Venice (Online)）
3.	2026/03	A Brief History of Boys Love（San Francisco, CA）
4.	2025/11	汽車と飛行機と ... 少女マンガと　1970年代から1980年代にかけて海外への渡航した漫画家とファン（東京）
5.	2025/11	Leaving Home to Find Lesbian Selves: Overseas Travel and the (Re)Crafting of Lesbian Identities in 1970s Japan（Kyoto）
6.	2025/10	Reimagining "Women" 1970s-1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans（Rutgers, NJ (Online)）
7.	2025/06	Queer Transfigurations of BL（Seoul）
8.	2025/03	Rethinking "Women": Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans in 1970s-1980s Japan（Atlanta, GA）
9.	2025/03	Book talk on Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans（New York, NY）
10.	2025/03	Rethinking "Women": Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans in 1970s-1980s Japan（Philadelphia, PA）
11.	2025/03	Book talk on Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans（Philadelphia, PA）
12.	2025/03	Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans Reconsidering "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan（University Park, PA）
13.	2025/03	Reimagining "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan and Beyond: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Shōjo Manga Artists and Fans（St. Paul, MN）
14.	2025/03	Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Shōjo Manga Artists and Fans Reimagining "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan（Northfield, MN）
15.	2025/02	Reimagining "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Shōjo Manga Artists and Fans（Evanston, IL）
16.	2025/02	Reenvisioning "Women" in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans（St. Louis, MO）
17.	2025/02	Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans Rethinking "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan（Urbana, IL）
18.	2025/02	Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans Reenvisioning "Women" in Late Twentieth-Century Japan（Lafayette, IN）
19.	2025/02	Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Manga Artists and Fans Rethinking "Women" in Late Twentieth-Century Japan
20.	2025/02	Feminists, Lesbians, and Boys Love Manga Artists and Fans: Rethinking "Women" in Late Twentieth-Century Japan（Indianapolis, IN）
21.	2025/02	Repicturing "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan and Beyond: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Shōjo Manga Artists and Fans（Lewiston, ME）
22.	2025/01	Reenvisioning "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Shōjo Manga Artists and Fans（Toronto）
23.	2025/01	Transfiguring "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Boys Love Artists and Fans
24.	2024/12	Transfiguring "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Boys Love Artists and Fans
25.	2024/10	Feminists, Lesbians, and Boys Love Artists and Fans: Rethinking "Women" in 1970s-1980s Japan
26.	2024/09	Feminists, Lesbians, and Queer Girls' Manga: Transnational Engagements and Cultural Change in 1970s-1980s Japan（Pittsburgh, PA）
27.	2023/05	Overseas Trans* Fans of Boys Love (BL) and Yuri: Thoughts on Media Consumption & Gender Identity,（Riverside, California (Online)）
28.	2023/02	海外におけるBLや百合の広がりとトランスとノンバイナリーのファン（大阪（オンライン））
29.	2022/11	Boys Love (BL) and Yuri: From Domestic Genres to Global Queer Fandoms
30.	2022/10	An Introduction to the Boys Love (BL) Genre
31.	2022/06	Boys Love (BL) and Yuri Media, from Niche Japanese Genres to Queer Global Fandoms（Manila (online)）
32.	2022/03	Global Japan and Academia during COVID 19
33.	2021/12	Cool Japan, Queer Japan? On Global Fandoms of Boys Love (BL) and Yuri Media and Local LGBTQ Identities（Online）
34.	2021/06	国内外のファンイベントにおける百合メディアとファンダム（京都（オンライン））
35.	2021/04	Cross-Strait Cultures: Performance, Media, and History（Online）
36.	2020/02	From Japan with (Boys) Love: BL Media and the Transfiguration of Gender and Sexuality in Asia
37.	2020/01	To Asia with (Boys) Love: BL Media and the Transfiguration of Gender and Sexuality
38.	2019/11	"Boys Love" Manga, Anime, and More in Asia: Transforming Media, Gender, and Sexuality（Mexico City）
39.	2019/10	BL Media Transformed in Asia: From Shōnen'ai, Yaoi, and Boys Love to Danmei, Series Y, and Beyond（Taipei）
40.	2019/07	Crossroads in Boys Love: A Special Lecture Featuring BL Scholars Thomas Baudinette, Fusami Ogi, and James Welker（Manila）
41.	2019/06	Academic Freedom and Gender Studies: The Case in Hungary and a Response in Japan
42.	2019/05	The Transformative Power of Boys Love (BL) Media in Asia（Eugene, Oregon）
43.	2019/05	What We Can Learn from the Circulation and Transformation of Boys Love (BL) Media around Asia（New York City）
44.	2019/03	Boys Love (BL) Media in Asia: Transformed and Transforming（Albuquerque）
45.	2018/03	Transfiguring Boys Love (BL) Media in Asia（Northampton, MA, USA）
46.	2018/03	Boys Love (BL) Media and Its Asian Transfigurations（Philadelphia, PA, USA）
47.	2018/03	Boys Love, Yuri, and More: Tracing the History of "Queer" (But Not Necessarily LGBT) Media in Japan,（Philadelphia, PA, USA）
48.	2018/03	Developing a Lesbian Gaze in Late 1960s Japan: An Examination of the Photos and Writing of Kiyooka Sumiko（Toronto, ON, Canada）
49.	2018/02	Male Gaze or Lesbian Gaze? The Photos and Writing of Kiyooka Sumiko（Ottawa, ON, Canada）
50.	2017/03	“Boys Love” … for Girls: How Did BL Manga Get to Be So Popular in Japan?（Geneseo, NY, USA）
51.	2016/03	Transcending Gender in Manga?: From Cross-Dressing Characters and Cross-Identifying Fans to Transgender Narratives,（Vancouver, Canada）
52.	2016/02	The Emergence of Lesbian Feminism Within and Against the Women’s Liberation Movement in 1970s–1980s Japan（York, UK）
53.	2016/02	Boys Love, Yuri, and Beyond: On the Historical Development of Queer Manga and Anime Genres in Japan（Sheffield, UK）
54.	2016/01	A Quick and Dirty History of Manga and Anime: From Scroll Paintings and Aka-hon to Fruits Basket, One Piece, and Attack on Titan（千葉市）
55.	2015/10	Gender and Sexual Minorities in Japan: Culture, Visibility, and Rights
56.	2014/11	Whose Queer Media? An Examination of the Diverse Fandom of the Cross-Media Yuri Genre（Wollongong, Australia）
57.	2014/07	A Brief History of Gender and Sexual Minorities in Japan（Tokyo, Japan）
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■ 委員会・協会等

1.	2026/06～	Mechademia (conference) 2027 Mechademia Conference Organizing Committee Chair
2.	2025～	Mechademia (conference) Steering Committee Member
3.	2020～	Global Queer Asias (academic book series) Series Co-Editor
4.	2020～	U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal Editorial Board Member
5.	2017/07/01～2017/07/02	Queer Transfigurations: International Symposium on Boys Love Media in Asia Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan Organizer
6.	2017～	Mechademia (journal) Editorial Board Member
7.	2015/10	Society for Queer Asian Studies Founder
8.	2015/10～2018/03	Society for Queer Asian Studies Co-Chair
9.	2010/09～	Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific International Advisory Board Member (Editorial Board)
10.	2008/11～2013	クィア学会会員
11.	2005/12～	Association for Asian Studies Member
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■ ホームページ

https://kanagawa-u.academia.edu/JamesWelker

■ メールアドレス

■ 受賞学術賞

1.	2016	Comic-Con Nominee, Will Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
2.	2008/08	Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship
3.	2008/01	アメリカ図書館協会 Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007『Queer Voices from Japan』受賞
4.	2007/08	Foreign Languages and Area studies Fellowship (FLAS), University of Illinois
5.	2006/12	Crompton-Noll Award for Best Essay in Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Studies (Modern Language Association)

■ 本学関連サイト

1.	「神大の先生」サイトページ