Masaki Kinjo

Clinical Assistant Professor

Masaki Kinjo is a Japanese language lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies. He earned his B.A. in International Studies from the University of Tsukuba and his M.A. in Japanese Studies from Osaka University where he also completed coursework in the Ph.D. program. His Ph.D. will be conferred from the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University in 2017. His area expertise focuses on Okinawan literature, poetry, and history; speech act theory and critical theory.

Areas of Research

Okinawan literature, poetry, and history; speech act theory and critical theory

Education

B.A. International Studies, University of Tsukuba

M.A. Japanese Studies, Osaka University

Ph.D. Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University

Fellowships and Awards

  • 2013-2014 Sage Fellowship
  • 2012 Robert J. Smith Fellowship
  • 2010 Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
  • 2010-2011 Academic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
  • 2009 Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
  • 2009-2010 Academic Year Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship
  • 2008-2009 Sage Fellowship

Publications

  • Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, Translation of "Inner Words" Island of Protest Kiyota Masanobu’s
    Japanese Literature from Okinawa, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016. 223-224
  • “Rampaging through the ‘Pacifist Island’: The Rainbow Bird by Medoruma Shun.”
    International Journal of Okinawan Studies 3:1 (2012): 25-38
  • "Violence and Joy: From the Work of Frantz Fanon and Medoruma Shun’s Rainbow Bird"
    The Historical Experience of Contemporary Okinawa: On Hope, or Openness. Tokyo: Seikyu-sha, 2010. 319-357
  • "Identification and Departure: The Writings of Kiyota Masanobu"
    To The Colonizer: A Postcolonial Provocation. Ed. Nomura Kōya. Kyoto: Shōrai-sha, 2007. 381-433
  • "Out from the Beginning of Ruins"
    The Human Pavilion: A Sealed and Untouched World. Osaka: Artworks, 2005. 35-46
  • "Casting a Dreaded Gaze onto the Masses: On the Possibility of the Present"
    A Shaft of Light in the 1960s: Re-reading Literary History, Vl, Tokyo: Impact Shuppan-kai, 2002. 322-332