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.,
Purdue University, Master of Science,
Southeast Missouri University, Master of Art,
Tsuda College, Bachelor of Art,
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.