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Francesca Pizarro is an Assistant Professor of Japanese at Colorado College, affiliated with the Department of Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, and Russian Studies. She specializes in Japanese language, literature, and culture, with a focus on gender studies, spatial literary analysis, and modern/contemporary Japanese women writers. Her doctoral research (Ph.D., University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, 2023) explored representations of gender and space in early 20th-century Japanese fiction centered on schoolgirls.
- Education:
- Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese), University of Hawai`i at Mānoa (2023)
- M.A., University of Hawai`i at Mānoa (2015)
- B.A., Queens College CUNY (2009)
Her teaching spans elementary to advanced Japanese language courses and interdisciplinary topics such as The Tale of Heike and urban cultural studies. Research interests include intersections of gender, space, and narrative in modern Japanese contexts. She contributes to girls’ studies and literary analyses of popular culture.
