Research field (3):
Sociology
, Gender studies
, Foreign language education
Research keywords (3):
Gender and LGBTQ Studies
, Migration Studies
, Sociolinguistics
Research theme for competitive and other funds (2):
2020 - 2023 Intersectionality of the Transgender and Transnational Lives of Transpinay Entertainers in Japan
2018 - 2023 Developing resources for teaching and assessing communication strategies in ELF-informed pedagogy: An empirical approach based on learners' communicative competence
Papers (17):
Tricia Okada, Tricia Abigail Santos Fermin. A Road Less Traveled? A Duoethnography of Two Filipino Scholars in Japan During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Disrupted Mobilities. 2025. 239-263
Kuroshima Satomi, Dimoski Blagoja, Okada Tricia, Yujobo Yuri Jody &am, Chaikul Rasami. Navigating Boundaries through Knowledge: Intercultural Phenomena in ELF Interactions. Englishes in Practice. 2022
Kuroshima Satomi, Dimoski Blagoja, Okada Tricia, Yujobo Yuri Jody &am, Chaikul Rasami. Translanguaging Gestures and Onomatopoeia as Resources for Repairing the Problem. The Center for English as a Lingua Franca Forum. 2022
Tricia Okada. The Migration Pathways and Gender Performance of Transpinay Entertainers in Japan. 2021. 1-253
Tricia Okada. Negotiations in the Gendered Experiences of Transpinay Entertainers in Japan. Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia. 2020. 19. 2. 40-60
Outsider teachers? Filipino teachers’ reflections on English teaching and raising intercultural awareness in Japan (In G.P. Glasgow (Ed.). Multiculturalism, language, and race in English education in Japan: Agency, pedagogy, and reckoning)
Candlin & Mynard 2023
Non-Japanese Fans Perceptions of the Takarazuka Revue: Transnationalizing Culture of Japan in Asia (Book Editors: Dr. Hiroko Nagai, Tito Valiente)
2009 ISBN:9789710426065
Lectures and oral presentations (41):
Queer lives in motion: Memory, mobility, and belonging
(Queer Mobilities and Markets in and around Japan, Osaka University 2026)
Doing Gender: Transpinay Entertainers in Japan; Doing the Work: A Workshop on Research and Fieldwork
(Guest lecture (Sociology class, Kwansei Gakuin University) 2025)
(In)visibility of Filipino LGBTQ millenials in Japan
(FOM@Play: Migration, identity and transnational discourses 2025)
Queering MIgrations in Japan: Where Do We Go from Here?
(Queer Migrations: Critical Perspectives on Mobility, Displacement, and Belonging; Organized by Kobe Migration Research Center, Kobe University 2025)
From Invisible to Visible Genders
(Queer and Feminist Movements in Asia Series, Tokyo College, Tokyo University 2024)