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, and she has published in both Japanese and English on topics including gender and authorship, feminism, reproductive justice, and post-3.11 literature. She is currently co-editing a book on feminist perspectives on translation in Japanese literature.

In addition to her academic work, Yoshio is the translator of Imamura Natsuko’s This Is Amiko, Do You Copy?(Pushkin Press, 2023) and co-translator of Kawakami Mieko’s Ashes of Spring (Amazon Audible, 2025) and Sisters in Yellow (Knopf, 2026). She has also translated works by the early 20th century Japanese authors Higuchi Ichiyō and Osaki Midori. Her translations have appeared in Granta, The Atlantic, Freeman’s, Words without Borders, Monkey, World Literature Today, The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, and The Penguin Book of the International Short Story.