Yurika Tamura, PhD

Yurika Tamura is an Assistant Professor and Kaufman Family Global Fellow at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US).

She received her Ph.D. in Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University. Her doctoral dissertation, guided by Professor Elizabeth Grosz, was about corpo-materialist ethics of sound and sensation in Ainu music activism. Her book, Vibration of Others: Resonation and Corporeal Ethics of Transnational Indigenous Soundscapes (Wesleyan University Press, 2023) uses New Materialism and sound studies to understand Ainu contemporary music.

Her articles on sexuality, ethnicity, and immigration in Japan have been published in several feminist journals, such as Feminist FormationsFrontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, and Meridians. Some selected articles are: “Mimesis, Contention, and Corporeality of Otherness: Reading the Haircuts of Undocumented Immigrants’ Daughters in Japan.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Volume 39, Issue 3. December 2018. 183-207, “Lacerated Girls’ Uniforms and What the Cuts May Engender.” Feminist Formations. Volume 29, Issue 3. December 2017. 25-48 while she has been interviewed by Davidson College News:  “‘Minari’ Earns Oscar Noms, Marks Evolution of Asian-American Storytelling.” Davidson College News, 03/15/2021.https://www.davidson.edu/news/2021/03/15/minari-earns-oscar-noms-marks-evolution-asian-american-storytelling

 

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