Noriko Matsunaga

Noriko Matsunaga is a Professor at the School of Education, Waseda University, specializing in English literature, modernism, gender, and feminist theory. Her career spans institutions like Teikyo University and Surugadai University, with a focus on transnational feminist discourse and historical analysis of gendered narratives in British literature.

• Ph.D. in English Literature, Ochanomizu University
• Extensive committee leadership in The Virginia Woolf Society of Japan
• Co-editor of critical works on modernism and post-suffragist fiction

Her research interests bridge modernism with feminist critique, examining gender roles, post-suffrage movements, and intersections of race, class, and sexuality in 20th-century British literature. She analyzes how texts like Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan challenge normative structures of kinship and citizenship.

Her article trends reveal a focus on feminist reinterpretations of modernist texts, postsuffragist fiction, and neoliberal/postfeminist discourses. Recurring themes include sisterhood, care labor, queer representation, and biographical methods in deconstructing gendered historical narratives.

Grants include JSPS Research Projects on Islam/gender studies and women's literature as social movements, alongside internal research on aging in modernism. She actively contributes to academic societies like the Japan Women's History Network and Gender History Association of Japan.