Japanese and Latin American literatures, subjectivity, Marxist theory, phenomenology, feminist theory
Amy Obermeyer
Amy's research focuses on gender and literary subjectivity in Japanese and Latin American literature from the late-nineteenth through early-twentieth centuries, particularly as manifest in the Japanese shishousetsu and modernismo in Latin America. Drawing from a main corpus consisting of authors such as José Asunción Silva, Tayama Katai, Aurora Cáceres, Tamura Toshiko, Teresa de la Parra, and Uno Chiyo, her work seeks to interrogate at once the notion of the world (and world literature) and the gendered subject within. Her principle theoretical interests include feminism, phenomenology and Marxist theory. Amy has been a co-organizer of the Feminist Reading Group and is currently the managing editor for Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism and Translation.
Dr. Gabriela Basterra and Dr. Laura Torres Rodriguez