Tomiko Yoda

Tomiko Yoda is the Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities at Harvard University (on leave 2025-26). She holds a B.A. in Religion from Wesleyan University, M.A. in Oriental Philosophy from Nagoya University, and M.A./Ph.D. in Japanese from Stanford University. Previously, she taught at Duke, Cornell, and Stanford. Her research focuses on modern/premodern Japanese literature, literary history, gender studies, Japanese media culture, and feminist theory. She teaches courses on contemporary Japanese fiction, anime as global pop culture, and girl culture in Japan.

Her publications include *Gender and National Literature: Heian Texts and the Constructions of Japanese Modernity* (2004) and co-edited *Japan after Japan: Social and Cultural Life from the Recessionary 1990s to the Present* (2006). Current research explores how female youth temporality in Japan shapes mediatized consumption across fashion, magazines, comics, and pop music (forthcoming book: *Girl Time: Gender and Media Culture in Post-60s Japan*).

• Awards: National Humanities Center Fellowship, Japan Foundation Research Fellowship, SSRC/JSPS, and NEH Fellowships

Her work bridges literary analysis with cultural studies, examining intersections of gender, media, and modernity in Japanese contexts. She advises on interdisciplinary projects linking feminist theory and pop culture.