Pan Tomé Valencia

Pan Tomé Valencia is a Departmental Lecturer at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies where they teach Classical Japanese and Classical Japanese Literature. Their research focuses on gender, body, and textual circulation in Premodern Japanese texts, particularly Heian period (794-1185) courtly diaries. Their recent work uses methodological approaches from queer and crip studies to examine matters of normativity, agency and social expectation through literary depictions of disrupted life cycles in medieval (self-)narrative.

Publications:

Políticas de la identidad en Kagerō nikki y Sarashina nikki [Identity Politics in Kagerō nikki and Sarashina nikki],Nuevas aproximaciones a la literatura japonesa [New approaches to Japanese literature], Pitarch Fernández, Pau ed. Barcelona: Bellaterra. 2020. (ICAS Book Prize 2021, Spanish/Portuguese Language Edition, Edited Volume Accolade)

Negotiating Publicity, Publicising Domesticity: Women-authored Heian Kana Memoirs, Circulation, Reception and Power. Doctoral Thesis, Oxford University. 2020.