Kina Ikue

キナイクエ | Kina Ikue

Affiliation and department：
Job title： Professor

Research field (4)： Literature - General , Gender studies , Literature - British/English-languag , Local studies

Research keywords (10)： diaspora , island culture , languages and literatures in borderland(s) , Okinawa , Chicano/a , Native American , アメリカ文学 , critical theories , ethnic Literature in the U.S. , American Women Writers

Research theme for competitive and other funds (10)：

2019 - 2022 Narratives of Intolerance in Contemporary US and Restoration of Diversity by the Concepts of Border Culture
2016 - 2019 Politics of "Homelands": Studies in Belonging and Transcending
2016 - 2019 American Globalism and Social and Cultural Transformation of Islands
2012 - 2015 Theorizing and Historicizing Literary Correspondence: Interrelations of Humans and Nature
2012 - 2015 Borderlands and Emergence of Literary Genres in American Ethnic-Minority Literature

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Papers (23)：

KINA Ikue. Karen Tei Yamashita's Homeland: San Francisco Asian Immigrants' Homeland and Narrative Space in I Hotel. Politics of Homeland: Sense of Belonging and Transnationality in American Literature (Koji KOTANI, ed). 2019. 163-207
KINA Ikue. Narrative Strategies of "Small Islands": Okinawan Literature as Postcolonial Literature. Challenges of Island Studies (D.Ikegami, Y. Sugimura, Y. Fujita, and M. Motomura, eds). 2019. 151-170
KINA Ikue. Transformation from "Southern Island" to "Shima": Island Communities and Women in the Literature of Tami Sakiyama. Juncture: Transdisciplinary Japanese Studies. 2017. 8. 8. 14-27
KINA Ikue. “Postwar U.S. Presence in Okinawa and Border Imagination: Stories of Eiki Matayoshi and Tami Sakiyama.”. The Japanese Journal of American Studies. 2016. 27. 189-210
KINA Ikue. Subaltern Knowledge and Transnational American Studies: Postwar Japan and Okinawa under US Rule. American Quarterly. 2016. 68. 2. 443-455

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MISC (4)：

Kina Ikue, 喜納育江. 【《UH・UR合同シシポジウム》報告】Storied Islands : Imagined Indigeneity as a Strategy for Transforming the Okinawan Community. 国際琉球沖縄論集 = International Review of Ryukyuan and Okinawan Studies. 2013. 2. 77-84
KINA Ikue. Translation "A Landscape of Words: the One in between Appa, Anna and Obaa" by Tami Sakiyama. My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa (Chicago Quarterly Review). 2012. 189-191
KINA Ikue. Translation "Passing int Twilight Alley" by Tami Sakiyama. My Postwar Life: New Writings from Japan and Okinawa (Chicago Quarterly Review). 2012. 176-187
Kina Ikue. Book Review : Stewart, F., & Yamazato K. (Eds.). (2009) : Voices from Okinawa : Featuring three plays by Jon Shirota. International journal of Okinawan studies. 2010. 1. 1. 145-149

Books (15)：

Approaches to Teaching the Works of Karen Tei Yamashita
MLA (Modern Language Association) 2022 ISBN:9781603295413
Unpredictable agents : the making of Japan's Americanists during the Cold War and beyond
University of Hawai'i Press 2021 ISBN:9780824888848
The 21st Century Survey of American Literature: Changing Americanism
Eiho-sha Publishing 2018 ISBN:9784269520073
Encyclopedia of American Culture
Maruzen 2018 ISBN:9784621302149
Gender Studies in Okinawa 3: Crossroads of Identities
Otsuki Shoten Publisher 2016 ISBN:9784272350537

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Lectures and oral presentations (12)：

“This Thin Edge of Barbwire”: Okinawan Women’s Struggles before and after Reversion
(Okinawa "Reversion" Workshop 2022)
The Environmental Consequences of Declining Carnal Memories under COVID-19
(The 7th International Symposium for Literature and Environment in East Asia 2021)
Gayl JonesのMosquitoに見る「境域」としてのLatinx Southの形成
(第60回日本アメリカ文学会年次大会シンポジアムIII(九州支部発題)アメリカ南部文学の現状と展望 -FaulknerからNew Southern Studiesへ- 2021)
Site-Committee Sponsored Roundtable: Pacific Memories of War
(American Studies Association Annual Conference 2019)
Whose Rights the Laws Have Protected?: Representation of Chicana Bodies in Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders
(English Literary Society of Japan Kyushu Chapter 2019)

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Education (2)：

1991 - 1996 Indiana University of Pennsylvania Graduate School Literature and Criticism Program
1986 - 1990 University of the Ryukyus Faculty of Law and Letters Department of English

Professional career (1)：

PhD (English) (Indiana University of Pennsylvania (US))

Work history (13)：

2023/04 - 現在 University of the Ryukyus Vice Executive Director & Vice President (Accreditation & IR)
2018/04 - 現在 Global Language and Literature Program, Faculty of Global and Regional Studies, U of the Ryukyus Professor
2022/04 - 2023/03 Director, University of the Ryukyus Main Library
2019/04 - 2022/03 University of the Ryukyus Assistant to the President (Assignments: Diversity and International Affairs)
2015/04 - 2022/03 University of the Ryukyus Gender Equality Promotion Office Director

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Committee career (11)：

2021/04 - 現在 Association for Studies of Literature and Environment in Japan Vice President
2018/08 - 2021/05 American Studies Association (US) Managing Editor, American Quarterly
2018/06 - 2020/06 The Japanese Association for American Studies a board member
2018/06 - 2020/06 アメリカ学会(日本) 理事
2017/06 - 2018/06 アメリカ学会(日本) 評議員

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Awards (1)：

2007/04 - Japan-U.S. Educational Commission 2007 Fulbright Research Grant Fulbright Visiting Researcher

Association Membership(s) (6)：

American Studies Association , Multiethnic Studies Association , Association for Literature and Environment in Japan , THE AMERICAN LITERATURE SOCIETY OF JAPAN , JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES , THE ENGLISH LITERARY SOCIETY OF JAPAN

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