Information on researchers - James Welker

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James Welker
Kanagawa University Cross-Cultural and Japanese Studies Department of Cross-Cultural Studies

Professor

■ Works

■ Academic conference presentation

1.	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)
2.	2017/03	Lesbian Studies Avant la Lettre: Resituating Photographer Kiyooka Sumiko (Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting)
3.	2016/03	Reading the Liberatory Promise of a Third Gender in(to) Manga (Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting)
4.	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)
5.	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)
6.	2015/06	(Mis)Representing Japan to Western Audiences (roundtable (Asian Studies Conference Japan)
7.	2015/03	Inclusion and Diversity among Fans of Yuri Media in Japan (Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting)
8.	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)
9.	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)
10.	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)
11.	2012/03	Feminist, Lesbian-Feminist, and Commercial Transfigurations of The Hite Report in Japan (Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting)
12.	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)
13.	2010/11	Feminism in Transit(ion): International Travel and Feminist Activism in 1970s Japan (American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting)
14.	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)
15.	2008/04	Crossing the Line: The (Homo)Eroticized Male and Queer Female Identifications in Japan (Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting)
16.	2007/06	Thinking Globally, Identifying Locally: Japanese Lesbian Community and Identify Formation in a Global Frame (National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting)
17.	2006/03	Japanese Colonial Queer: "Perversion" and the Use of Colonial Space (Sexuality Out of Place)
18.	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)
19.	2004/07	From The Well of Loneliness to the akarui rezubian: Western Translations and Lesbian Identities (Asian Studies Association of Australia Bi-Annual Meeting)
20.	2003/08	Beautiful, Borrowed, and Bent: Boys' Love as Girls' Love in Shojo Manga (Third International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS3))
21.	2001/12	From The Cherry Orchard to Sakura no sono: Translating Sexual Identities (AsiaPacifiQueer 3)
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■ Book and Papers

1.	Book	Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia (Collaboration) 2022/05
2.	Book	Queer(ing) (special issue) (Collaboration) 2020
3.	Book	BL Opening Doors: Sexuality and Gender Transfigured in Asia (Collaboration) 2019/10
4.	Book	Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (Collaboration) 2018
5.	Book	Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan (Collaboration) 2015
6.	Other	Global Queer Asias (book series) 2020
7.	Book	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities (Collaboration) 2007
8.	Papers	Queering our Worlds: Remembering Mark McLelland (special issue) (Collaboration) 2021/12
9.	Papers	Of Queer Import(s): Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia (special issue) (Collaboration) 2006/11
10.	Papers	Mark McLelland and Queer Careers in Japan Studies (Single) 2021/12
11.	Book	BL Opening Doors: Sexuality and Gender Transfigured in Asia (Collaboration) 2019/10
12.	Book	Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (Collaboration) 2019
13.	Book	BL studies: An introduction (Collaboration) 2020/07
14.	Book	Japanese Media and Popular Culture: An Open-Access Digital Initiative of the University of Tokyo (Collaboration) 2020
15.	Book	Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (Collaboration) 2018
16.	Book	Rethinking Japanese Feminisms (Collaboration) 2018
17.	Papers	Review of Pasfield-Neotifou, Sarah, and Cathy Sell, eds. with Queenie Chan. Manga Vision: Cultural and Communicative Perspectives (Clayton, Australia: Monash University Publishing, 2016). (Single) 2018/03
18.	Papers	Toward a History of "Lesbian History" in Japan (Single) 2017/04
19.	Papers	Gender and sexuality and globalization (Collaboration) 2017/11
20.	Papers	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) (Single) 2016/03
21.	Book	Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan (Collaboration) 2015
22.	Book	Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan (Collaboration) 2015
23.	Book	Boys Love Manga and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan (Collaboration) 2015
24.	Other	Review, Hagio Moto, Heart of Thomas, trans. Matt Thorn (1974; Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2012) (Single) 2015/05
25.	Papers	Thoughts on the representation of yuri fandom in Kurata Uso's Yuri danshi (Single) 2014/12
26.	Papers	(Re)Positioning (Asian) Queer Studies (Single) 2014
27.	Papers	Review, Tokyo Cyberpunk, by Steven T. Brown (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) (Single) 2013
28.	Papers	Review, Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan, by Jonathan D. Mackintosh (Routledge, 2010) (Single) 2013
29.	Papers	Review, Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga, by Jennifer S.Prough (University of Hawai'i Press, 2011) (Single) 2012
30.	Papers	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) (Single) 2011
31.	Papers	Flower Tribes and Female Desire: Complicating Early Female Consumption of Male Homosexuality in Shojo Manga (Collaboration) 2011
32.	Papers	Transfiguring the Female: Women and Girls Engaging the Transnational in Late Twentieth Century Japan (Single) 2010
33.	Papers	Telling Her Story: Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community (Single) 2010
34.	Book	Girl Reading Girl in Japan (Collaboration) 2010
35.	Papers	Review, Barbara Summerhawk and Kimberley Hughes, eds., Sparkling Rain and Other Fiction from Japan of Women Who Love Women (Chicago: New Victoria, 2008). (Single) 2009/04
36.	Papers	Review, Jim Reichert, In the Company of Men:Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008) (Single) 2008
37.	Book	AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities (Collaboration) 2008
38.	Book	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities 2007
39.	Book	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities 2007
40.	Book	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities 2007
41.	Book	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities 2007
42.	Book	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities 2007
43.	Book	Queer Voices from Japan: First-Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities 2007
44.	Book	Lesbian Voices: Canada and the World: Theory, Literature, Cinema (Collaboration) 2006
45.	Papers	Introduction: Of Queer Import(s) in Asia (Collaboration) 2006
46.	Papers	Beautiful, Borrowed, and Bent: Boys' Love as Girls' Love in Shojo Manga (Single) 2006
47.	Papers	Celebrating Lesbian Sexuality: An Interview with Inoue Meimy, Editor of Japanese Lesbian Erotic Lifestyle Magazine Carmilla 2006/01
48.	Papers	Clandestine Wandering in the World of Women: An Interview with Freelance Journalist "Y" 2006/01
49.	Papers	Lesbian/Gay Studies 2006/01
50.	Book	Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan (Collaboration) 2005
51.	Papers	Telling Her Story: Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community (Single) 2004
52.	Papers	Toward a Pedagogy of Women's Liberation: Freire, the Patriarchy and the Foreign Language Classroom (Single) 2003
53.	Papers	Review of Sharon Chalmers, Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan (London: Routledge, 2002) (Single) 2003/08
54.	Papers	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]a (Single) 2002
55.	Papers	Dramatizing Classroom Activities to Energize and Motivate Students (Single) 2000/03
56.	Papers	A Thematic Week at a Small School (Collaboration) 1999/02
57.	Papers	Lights Up-Drama in the ESL Classroom (Single) 1999
58.	Papers	Easy English Communication at the Secondary Level: Easy Ways Teachers Who Are Non-Native Speakers Can Use More English in Class (reprint) (Single) 1996/11
59.	Papers	Easy English Communication at the Secondary Level: Easy Ways Teachers Who Are Non-Native Speakers Can Use More English in Class (Single) 1996/07
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■ Belonging society

1.	2005～	Association for Asian Studies
2.	2018～	Association for Cultural Studies

■ Lecturer and lecture

1.	2018/03	Transfiguring Boys Love (BL) Media in Asia (Northampton, MA, USA)
2.	2018/03	Boys Love (BL) Media and Its Asian Transfigurations (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
3.	2018/03	Boys Love, Yuri, and More: Tracing the History of "Queer" (But Not Necessarily LGBT) Media in Japan, (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
4.	2018/03	Developing a Lesbian Gaze in Late 1960s Japan: An Examination of the Photos and Writing of Kiyooka Sumiko (Toronto, ON, Canada)
5.	2018/02	Male Gaze or Lesbian Gaze? The Photos and Writing of Kiyooka Sumiko (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
6.	2016/03	Transcending Gender in Manga?: From Cross-Dressing Characters and Cross-Identifying Fans to Transgender Narratives, (Vancouver, Canada)
7.	2014/11	Whose Queer Media? An Examination of the Diverse Fandom of the Cross-Media Yuri Genre (Wollongong, Australia)
8.	2014/07	A Brief History of Gender and Sexual Minorities in Japan (Tokyo, Japan)
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■ Committee and society

1.	2017/07/01～2017/07/02	Queer Transfigurations: International Symposium on Boys Love Media in Asia Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan Organizer
2.	2017～	Mechademia Editorial Board Member
3.	2015/10	Society for Queer Asian Studies Founder
4.	2015/10～2018/03	Society for Queer Asian Studies Co-Chair
5.	2010/09～	Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific International Advisory Board Member (Editorial Board)
6.	2005/12～	Association for Asian Studies Member
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■ Home Page

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

■ E-Mail Address

■ Research Field

1.	2010/08	Nina Baym Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of Illinois (declined)
2.	2008/08	Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship
3.	2007/08	Foreign Languages and Area studies Fellowship (FLAS), University of Illinois
4.	2006/12	Crompton-Noll Award for Best Essay in Lesbian, Gay, and Queer Studies

■ Present specialized field

Key Word：Modern and Contemporary Japanese Cultural History, Gender and Sexuality, Globalization