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Modern Language Studies Department

Hiroko Hirakawa

Professor for Japanese


Office

Duke-313
+1 (336) 3162413
hhirakaw@guilford.edu

Biography


Hiroko Hirakawa has been teaching at Guilford College since the fall of 1997. Born and raised in Japan, she came to the United States in 1987 to pursue graduate degrees.

Her primary research interests include Japanese feminisms and gender studies, nationalism, and popular culture in postwar Japan.

The highlights of her teaching include those moments when her Japanese-language students come to her office to share the excitement of their experiences in Japan.

Education
Purdue University, Ph.D., Sociology
Purdue University, M.S., Sociology
Southeast Missouri University, M.A., Psychological Counseling
Tsuda College, B.A., American Studies

Selected Scholarship
“Maiden Martyr for ‘New Japan’”: The 1960 Ampo and the Rhetoric of the Other Michiko.” US-Japan Women’s Journal. no. 51 (special issue), 2017.
“The Dignified Woman who Loves to be ‘Lovable’” in Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller, eds., Manners and Mischief: Gender, Power, and Etiquette in Japan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.

Courses Taught
JAPN 101: Communicating in Japanese I
JAPN 102: Communicating in Japanese II
JAPN 201: Intermediate Japanese I
JAPN 202: Intermediate Japanese II
JAPN 301: Early Advanced Japanese
JAPN 400: Senior Seminar
JAPN 220: Women in Modern Japan
JAPN 221: Contemporary Japanese Society
MLS 210: Transnational Memories
JAPN 250: Japan, its Past and Present
FYS 101: Anime and Japanese Culture
FYE 101: Green Tea and 1000-Year-Old Eggs