Information on researchers - James Welker

(Last updated : 2024-04-01 10:31:36)

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

Professor

■ Works

■ Present specialized field

Modern and Contemporary Japanese Cultural History, Gender and Sexuality Studies

■ Book and Papers

Book

Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans (Single) 2024/07

■ 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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■ 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