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Kyoko Taniguchi is an Associate Professor of Japanese at Lehigh University, holding a Ph.D. from Emory University with concentrations in contemporary Japanese literature, gender studies, and psychoanalysis. She earned additional credentials including a Graduate Minor in Psychoanalytic Studies and Graduate Certificates in Comparative Literature and Women's Studies. Prior to Lehigh, she taught at Dickinson College, Gettysburg College, Emory University, and University of Georgia.
Her research examines the intersection of motherhood, fantasy, and subjectivity in contemporary Japanese literature and culture through psychoanalytic frameworks. Key areas include horror genres, cultural representations of maternity, and gendered societal structures. Her work bridges literary analysis with psychological and feminist theory to explore narratives of identity and societal norms.
Publications consistently focus on maternal themes within Japanese literary contexts, employing psychoanalytic and gender-studies approaches to analyze works ranging from modern literature to cultural phenomena like J-Horror. This interdisciplinary scholarship reveals persistent explorations of familial dynamics, female subjectivity, and cultural taboos.
Teaching encompasses diverse courses including:
- Elementary/Advanced Japanese language
- Ghosts, Monsters, and J-Horror
- Japanese Storytellers: Anime to Mythology
- Asian American Studies: Performing Asian America
- Globalization in Asia (First-Year Seminar)
- Previously taught courses: Japanese Women Writers, Pre-Modern Literature, and East Asian studies
