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3122 CHASS INT SOUTH
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Shigematsu, Setsu

Asst. Professor

Biography

 Professor Shigematsu completed her Ph.D. at Cornell University, with training across the fields of Asian/Japan Studies, Asian American Studies, feminist and gender studies. Her intellectual and scholarly concerns include the historical relationship between U.S. and Japanese imperialisms, transnational liberation movements, comparative feminist and critical theory, and media and cultural studies. Dr. Shigematsu is writing a book which offers a cross-disciplinary analysis of the history, politics and philosophy of the women’s liberation movement that emerged in Japan from the late 1960s to the 1970s. She is also co-editing an anthology entitled, Gender and Militarism Across the Asia-Pacific, with Keith Camacho, Historian of Pacific Studies at UCLA. She was a recipient of the University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2005. Prof. Shigematsu is on official leave as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University until the summer of 2007.

Degrees

Ph.D. Asian Studies 2003

Cornell University

M.A. Asian Studies 1995

Cornell University

B.A. East Asian Studies 1993

McGill University

Awards

Postdoctoral Fellow in Japanese Studies, Stanford University, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, 2005-2007
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2005-2006
Japanese Ministry of Education Research Scholarship, University of Tokyo, 2001-2003
Japan Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1999-2000
Sage Fellowship, Graduate School, Cornell University, 1998
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, 1996-1997
Lee Teng-Wei Fellowship in World Affairs, 1996
Robert J. Smith Fellowship, East Asia Program, Cornell University, 1994-1995


Research Area

comparative feminist philosophy media and cultural studies Asian/Japanese cultural studies Asian American Studies

Publications

selected:

“The Philosophy of Tanaka Mitsu: Dialectics of Liberation and Violence,” in Fifty Classics of Postwar Thought (Sengo Shiso no Meicho), Ed. Ueno Chizuko, Iwasaki Minoru and Narita Ryuichi, Heibonsha Press, Tokyo, 2006 (Japanese language publication).



"Feminism and Media in the Late Twentieth Century: Reading the Limits of a Politics of Transgression, " in Gendering Modern Japanese History, Ed. B. Molony and Kathleen Uno, Harvard University Press 2005.



"The Society of Asian Women who Fight Aggression and Discrimination," in Women's Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary, Eds. Inoue Teruko, et al., Iwanami Publishers, Tokyo, 2002 (Japanese language publication).



"Dimensions of Desire: Sex, Fantasy and Fetish in Japanese Comics," in Issues in Asian Cartooning: Cute, Cheap, Sexy and Mad, Ed. J. Lent, Popular Press, 1999.