Miyabi Goto | University of Kentucky College of Arts & Sciences

Miyabi Goto

Assistant Professor

Japan Studies

Contact Information

miyabi.goto@uky.edu

1065 Patterson Office Tower

Research Interests

Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
Modernity and Modernism
Film and Visual Studies

Affiliations

Modern & Classical Languages Literatures & Cultures
Japan Studies
International Film Studies
Social Theory
Global Asias

Research

Goto's research focuses on modern Japanese literature during and since the Meiji period (1868–1912), with a particular interest in the emergence of criticism as an intellectual practice. She is currently working on her book project, Critical Failures: Discourses and Practices of Critical Reading in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan.

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Articles:

"Mother, Photography, Reproduction: A Note on Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974." Photography and Culture (2023). DOI: 10.1080/17514517.2023.2256534.
"Urban Ambiguity: Modernist Descriptions in Kajii Motojirō." Japan Forum (2023). DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2023.2258139.
"'Maihime' and the Space of Criticism in Meiji Japan." The Journal of Japanese Studies 46, no. 2 (2020): 345-368. muse.jhu.edu/article/761142.
"Constitutive Aporia of Literature: The Case of Kitamura Tōkoku's Theory of Literature." Japan Forum (2019). DOI: 10.1080/09555803.2019.1676290.

Translations:

Hirano Ken. "Establishing Criteria." In Politics and Literature Debate: Postwar Japanese Criticism 1945–1952, edited by Atsuko Ueda et al., 93–96. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017.
Hirano Ken. "Politics and Literature I." In Politics and Literature Debate: Postwar Japanese Criticism 1945–1952, edited by Atsuko Ueda et al., 97–103. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. Co-translation with Sara Allen and Mariko Takano.
Hirano Ken. "What is the 'Primacy of Politics'?" In Politics and Literature Debate: Postwar Japanese Criticism 1945–1952, edited by Atsuko Ueda et al., 115–126. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2017. Co-translation with Ron Wilson.