Position:
Research Affiliate, Modern Japanese Literature
Faculty / College Address:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Email:
juliana.buriticaalzate@ames.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Authorship, translation, exophony, embodiment, care, trauma literature, gender and sexuality, feminist and queer critical theories.
Current Projects:
Co-edited volume with Dr. Hitomi Yoshio. Making Translation Visible: Voices, Spaces, and Communities in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature.
Co-authored research monograph with Dr.Letizia Guarini. ‘Queering’ the Family: Translation and Representations of Family, Parenting, and Related Embodied Experiences in Japanese Fiction and Film.
Courses Taught:
Modern Japanese Literature, Modern Japanese Cultural History, Literary Theory and Feminism
Biography:
Juliana Buriticá Alzate is a dynamic researcher of Japanese literature, gender and sexuality studies, and literary translator (Japanese to Spanish). With over a decade of experience in education, both in academia and not-for-profit sectors. She worked as Departmental Lecturer in Modern Japanese Literature for the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford, UK (from 2022 -2025), where she currently holds a research affiliation. She completed her Ph.D. in Japanese literature at International Christian University in 2017, where she is a Research Fellow at the Center for Gender Studies. Her research brings together queer and feminist theory to explore representations of mothering and related embodied experiences in contemporary Japanese fiction, particularly in the works of Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka, Kirino Natsuo, and Itō Hiromi, on which she has published academic articles and book chapters. She has also translated Matsuda Aoko’s Where the Wild Ladies Are into Spanish (Quaterni 2022). She has recently presented on feminist care ethics.
Educational Background:
Doctor of Philosophy, 2017
International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Dissertation: “Representations of the Body by Japanese Women Writers: Intersections between Literature, Culture, and Gender and Sexuality”
Masters of Arts, 2012
International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Comparative Culture
Bachelor of Arts, 2009
Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Department of Social Sciences
Language Philosophy and Sociocultural Studies (Magna Cum Laude), and Minor in Philosophy
Recent Publications:
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“Reinventar lo monstruoso: las damas salvajes de Aoko Matsuda” (Reinventing the monstrous: Aoko Matsuda’s wild ladies). Kōbai, no.8, 2024, pp. 60-74.
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“Breastfeeding, Folklore and Nature: Reading Oyamada Hiroko’s ‘Spider Lilies’ and Matsuda Aoko’s ‘Enoki.’” Japanese Language and Literature Journal, vol. 58, no.2, 2024, pp. 225-251.
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Co-authored with Letizia Guarini.“Narrating Bodies: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Breastfeeding in Contemporary Japanese Literature.” Japanese Language and Literature Journal, vol. 58, no.2, 2024, pp. 159-170.
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Co-authored with Hitomi Yoshio. “Reimagining the Past, Present, and the Future of Reproductive
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Bodies in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction: Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World.” The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature, edited by Beth Widmaier Capo & Laura Lazzari, Springer Nature, 2022, pp. 465-486.
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“Shocking Readers and Shaking Taboos: Maternal Body and Affects in Itō Hiromi’s Work.” Maternal Regret, edited by Andrea O’Reilly, Demeter Press, 2022, pp.75-92.
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“Embodied Survival and Demythologization in Kirino Natsuo’s Tokyo jima.” Japan Studies Review, vol. 25, 2021, pp. 31-61.
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“Embodiment and Its Violence in Kawakami Mieko’s Chichi to ran: Menstruation, Beauty Ideals, and Mothering.” Japanese Language and Literature Journal, vol. 54, no.2, 2020, pp. 514-549.
