Prof. Masami Usui received her BA and MA from Kobe College, Japan, and her second MA and Ph.D. from Michigan State University. After teaching at Hiroshima University, she is currently Professor of English at Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. She is an author of 19 books such as A Passage to Self in Virginia Woolf’s Works and Life, Asian/Pacific American Literature (Vol. 1: Fiction, Vol. 2: Poetry, and Vol. 3: Drama), Borderless Literature and Memory: From a 9/11 to a 3/11 Prologue, Falling Love with Kazuo Ishiguro, and contributed to another 15 books. She has been working on Virginia Woolf and women writers, Asian American literature and culture, Black British literature, world literature, and the English Lake District.
Prof. Masami Usui
Presentation Title: Beyond Sexual, Gender, and Professional Boundaries in Irene Clyde’s Beatrix the Sixteenth: The Genesis of LGBTQ+
Doshisha University, Japan
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