Hitomi Yoshio
由尾 瞳

Hitomi Yoshio is Professor of Global Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies (Global-J) at Waseda University. She received her B.A. in English from Yale University, M.A. in English from the University of Tokyo, and Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. Her main area of specialization is modern and contemporary Japanese literature with a focus on women’s writing, literary communities, and translation culture. She has published articles and book chapters in the edited volumes, Sekai bungaku to shite no shinsaigo bungaku (Post-Disaster Literature as World Literature, 2021), Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (2023), The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature (2022), and Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers (2023). Most recently, Yoshio co-edited the book, Making Translation Visible: Voices, Spaces, and Communities in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature (under review).

As a literary translator, Yoshio’s publications include Imamura Natsuko’s This Is Amiko, Do You Copy? (Pushkin Press, 2023) and Kawakami Mieko’s Ashes of Spring (Amazon Audible, 2025; co-translation). Two more books by Kawakami, Sisters in Yellow (Knopf, 2026; co-translation) and Dreams of Love, Etc. (Knopf, 2027), are forthcoming. She has also translated widely in literary magazines, including works by modern Japanese authors such as Higuchi Ichiyō, Osaki Midori, and Uchida Hyakken.