Linda M. Flores

Position:

Associate Professor of Japanese; Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College 

Faculty / College Address:

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies / Pembroke College​​

Research Interests:

• 3.11 Writing and Japanese Trauma Fiction
• Proletarian Literature
• Women’s Writing
• Gender Theory
• Comparative Literature

Courses Taught:

• Modern Japanese Literature in Translation (lecture series)
• Unseen Translation (3^rd years) (lecture series)
• Special Texts: Gender and Identity in Modern Japanese Literature
• Special Texts: Trauma and Narrative in Modern Japanese Literature
• Special Subject: Modern Japanese Literature (late Edo to Taisho)
• Special Subject: Modern Japanese Literature (Showa to the present)
• Seminar in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Fiction (MSc)
• Modern East Asia Survey Course (participating lecturer)

Current Projects:

• Contemporary Tōhoku literature and culture

Recent Events:

• Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies 2022: “Humans and Nature in Crisis: Japanese Literature and the Environmental Humanities”: https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/event/4th-tanaka-symposium-japanese-studies
• Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies 2023: “Reconfiguring the Concept of Religion in Modern Japan”: ​​​https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/event/5th-tanaka-symposium-reconfiguring-concept-religion-modern-japan

Recent Presentations: 

• Flores, Linda, and Barbara Geilhorn, eds. Literature after Fukushima: From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2023.
• Flores, Linda, “From That Day Forward: Tōhoku, 3.11, and ‘Memory Landscapes’”, in
• Linda Flores and Barbara Geilhorn, eds., Literature after Fukushima : From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2023.
• Flores, Linda and Barbara Geilhorn, “Literature after Fukushima: An Introduction”, in Linda Flores and Barbara Geilhorn, eds., Literature after Fukushima : From Marginalized Voices to Nuclear Futurity. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2023.
• Flores, Linda M. "Re-imagining Japan after Fukushima by Tamaki Mihic". The Journal of Japanese Studies 48.1 (2022) (Review article).
• Flores, Linda, “Takahashi Takako no Sora no hate made to Moriakku no Terezu Dekeru” in Noami Mariko, ed., Sekai bungaku to Nihon bungaku. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 2019.
• Flores, Linda. "Kouno Fumiyo's Hi No Tori ('Bird of the Sun') Series as Documentary Manga: Memory and 3.11." Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 12 (2019).
• Flores, Linda. "In Her Footsteps: The Legacy of Professor Mizuta Noriko." Review of Japanese Culture and Society 30 (2018).
• Flores, Linda and Bullock, Julia, Guest Editors. Scholar, Poet, Educator: Festschrift Issue in Honor of Mizuta Noriko, Review of Japanese Culture and Society 30 (2018).
• https://fivebooks.com/best-books/modern-japanese-literature-linda-flores Interview: ‘The Best Modern Japanese Literature recommended by Linda Flores’ (2018).
• Flores, Linda. "Matrices of Time, Space and Text: Intertextuality and Trauma in Two 3.11 Narratives." Japan Review 31 (2017): Vol.31.
• Flores, Linda. "Narrating Trauma in Takahashi Takako's 'Sora No Hate Made': Perverse Motherhood." Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific (2017).
• Flores, Linda. "War Brides as Transnational Subjects in Mori Reiko's 'The Town of the Mockingbird'." Ca'Foscari Japanese Studies (2017).