Thank you for visiting my website. Before you glance at my papers, here is a brief summary of who I am…

My research interest is primarily in literature and film, but I have a tendency to diverge and engage in critical analysis of anything that constitute a narrative. I am currently teaching subjects related to queer theory and feminist literary criticism at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image.

I have a Bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto), a Masters in Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong, and a Doctorate in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory from Monash University (Melbourne). I have held teaching positions at the University of Melbourne and La Trobe University, and prior to my current position held a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tokyo. I am a mother of three and grandmother of one. I am married to my private proof-editor who also manages this website.

If you are interested in my research, please feel free to contact me at rio.otomo@gmail.com.

Main Publications

1. “Monpe Eroticism: Revisiting 1964 film, Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu” in Technology of Kimono, ed. Barbara Hartley. Forthcoming. (available on request)

2. “Unsettling Nostalgia through Irony: Cinematic War Memory and Gender”, co-authored with Barbara Hartley and Katsuhiko Suganuma, in Civil Society and Postwar Pacific Basin Reconciliation: Wounds, Scars and Healing, ed. Yasuko Claremont. Abington and New York: Routledge, 2018. (available on request)

3.「イライザ・ドゥリトルの憂鬱(I)(II)」『山田わか 生と愛の条件：ケアと暴力・産み育て・国家』望月雅和編、現代書館、2018年。

4. "When a Home is not a Home: Out by Kirino Natsuo" in ed. Barbara Hartley ‘The Fragmented Family in Modern Japan’, Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, Issue 40, Jan. 2017.

5. "Redrawing a Map of Motherhood" Japan Forum Vol. 28, 2016.

6. 「ファンタジーのポリティクス：ボーイズ・ラブを語るための理論的基盤に向けて」日本映画大学紀要 VOL 1. 2015.

7. "Politics of Utopia: Fantasy, Pornography, and Boys Love" in Boys Love, Manga, and Beyond: History, Culture, and Community in Japan eds. Mark McLelland, Kazumi Nagaike, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2015, pp.141-152.

8. "A Girl with her Writing Machine: Amebic by Kanehara Hitomi" in Girl Reading Girl in Japan (2010): 130-142.

9. "Mishima Yukio's Sex which is not One" Poetica 67, no. 67-70 (2007): 114.

10. "Narratives, the Body and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics" Asian Studies Review 31, no. 2 (2007): 117-132.

11. "A Manifestation of Modernity: The Split Gaze and the Oedipalised Space of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima Yukio" Japanese Studies 23, no. 3 (2003): 277-291.

12. "The Way of the Samurai: Ghost Dog, Mishima, and Modernity's Other Japanese Studies 21, no. 1 (2001): 31-43. (as Ryoko Otomo)

13. Translator's postscript for Mister Pip (ロイド・ジョーンズ著 大友りお訳『ミスター・ピップ』、白水社 2009) [in Japanese]

翻訳

1. 『ミスター・ピップ』ロイド・ジョーンズ著、大友りお訳、白水社2009年。