Annmaria Shimabuku

Associate Professor

Annmaria Shimabuku works at the crossroads of Okinawan literature, postcolonial Japanese studies, and literary/political theory. Before coming to New York University as Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, she was Assistant Professor of Comparative and Japanese Literature at UC Riverside. Committed to a bilingual address that engages both sides of the Pacific simultaneously, she publishes in English and Japanese.

Areas of Research/Interest

Japanophone and minor literatures, postcolonial studies, mixed-race studies, biopolitics, critical theory, and Okinawan studies.

Education

B.A. 1997, Japanese Language and Literature, Middlebury College
M.A. 2001, Sociology, University of Tokyo
A.B.D. 2004, Sociology, University of Tokyo
Ph.D. 2010, East Asian Literature, Cornell University


Selected Publications

  • Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life
    forthcoming from Fordham University Press in November 2018.
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  • “Auslegung und Kommentar zu Ukai Satoshis ‘To Bear a Shadow, or What is the Translation of Resistance?’”
    Trans. Marie Lottmann in Die Sozialität von Kontext: Die Einholung der Abwesenheit in der Übersetzung und im Kommentar. Ed. Andreas Langenohl and John Namjun Kim. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press, (forthcoming).
  • “Okinawa’s Gentleman’s Agreement: The Divide-and-Conquer Tactics of Transpacific Colonialism and the Mixed Okinawan Subject.”
    Hapa Japan: Constructing Global Mixed Roots, Japanese Identities and Representations. Ed. Duncan Williams. Los Angeles: USC Press, 2016, 123-132.
  • “Schmitt and Foucault on the Question of Sovereignty under Military Occupation.”
    Politíca Común. Vol. 5. (2014)
  • “Sovereignty and Performativity in the Wake of a Crumbling Japanese Empire: Okinawa’s All-Island Struggle (1952-1958).”
    The International Journal of Okinawan Studies. Vol. 3:1. (June 2012): 63-80.
  • “Transpacific Colonialism: Biopolitics and Transnational Activism in Okinawa.”
    CR: The New Centennial Review. Vol. 9:2 (2012), 131-158.
  • “Securing Okinawa for Miscegenation: Gender and Transpacific Empire of the US and Japan.”
    The Trans-Pacific Imagination: Rethinking Boundary, Culture and Society. Eds. Hyon Joo Yoo Murphree and Naoki Sakai. (World Scientific Publishing, 2012), 107-140.
  • “Who Should Bear the Burden of US Bases? Governor Nakaima’s Plea for ‘Relocation Site Outside of Okinawa Prefecture, but within Japan.’”
    The Asia-Pacific Journal. Vol. 9, Issue 45, No. 1. (2011)
  • “Petitioning Subjects: Miscegenation and the Crisis of Sovereignty in Okinawa, 1945-1952.”
    Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Vol. 11: 3 (2010): 355-374.
  • 「ポストコロニアル批判——ジェンダーの視点から見た沖縄」『上野千鶴子に挑む』千田有紀編、勁草書房、2011年、 248-261.
  • 「太平洋を横断する植民地主義——日米両国の革新派と『県外移設論』をめぐって」『植民者へ——ポストコロニアリズムという挑発』 野村浩也編 、松籟社、 2007年、 317-356.
  • 「雑種性の政治と混血児」『解放社会学研究』第１６巻 (2002): 16-51.