Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase grew up in Osaka, Japan. She received her PhD in comparative literature (Japanese and American literature) at Purdue University in 2003. She worked at Beloit College as an instructor from 2002–2003. She joined the Vassar faculty in 2003.
Her areas of research include Japanese women’s literature, girls’ magazine culture, and manga. She is also interested in the integration of popular media into language teaching. At Vassar, she teaches content courses such as, “Japanese Popular Culture and Literature,” “Youth in Japanese Literature” and “The Gothic and the Supernatural in Japanese Literature,” in addition to language courses.
She is the author of Age of Shojo: The Emergence, Evolution and Power of Japanese Girls’ Magazine Fiction (SUNY Press, 2019).
Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase grew up in Osaka, Japan. She received her PhD in comparative literature (Japanese and American literature) at Purdue University in 2003. She worked at Beloit College as an instructor from 2002–2003. She joined the Vassar faculty in 2003.
Her areas of research include Japanese women’s literature, girls’ magazine culture, and manga. She is also interested in the integration of popular media into language teaching. At Vassar, she teaches content courses such as, “Japanese Popular Culture and Literature,” “Youth in Japanese Literature” and “The Gothic and the Supernatural in Japanese Literature,” in addition to language courses.
She is the author of Age of Shōjo: The Emergence, Evolution and Power of Japanese Girls’ Magazine Fiction (SUNY Press, 2019). Her co-edited volumes include Shōjo Manga Wonderland (co-edited with Satoko Kan and Kayo Takeuchi, Meiji Shoin, 2012), Manga!: Visual-Pop Culture in ARTS Education (co-edited with Masami Toku, InSEA Publications, 2020), and Women’s Voices in Manga: Japanese Cultural and Historical Perspectives (co-edited with Masami Toku, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). She also co-edited special issues of U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal; “Shojo Manga: Past, Present, and Fure” (2010) and “Girls and Literature” (2022).
Research and Academic Interests
Japanese Women’s Literature
Girls’ Magazine Culture
Japanese Popular Culture
Departments and Programs
Courses
JAPA 105 Elementary Japanese
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
“The Malaise of the Modern Family: Examining Depictions of Child Abuse in Manga.” Women’s Voices in Manga: Japanese Cultural and Historical Perspectives, co-edited by Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase and Masami Toku. Palgrave Macmillan. 2024. 109-126.
“Junior Fiction Magazines as a Means of Sex Education: Examining Yoshida Toshi’s The Castle of Venus.” The Routledge Companion to Girls’ Studies, edited by Sharon R. Mazzarella. Routledge. 2024. 387-398.
“Beyond Shōjo Fantasy: Women Writers Writing Girlhood - Yoshiya Nobuko, Tanabe Seiko, and Hayashi Mariko.” Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers, edited by Rebecca Copeland. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 227-241.
“Looking at the Human World through the Eyes of Yokai in Natsume’s Book of Friends.” Manga!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education, co-edited by Masami Toku and Hiromi Dollase. Viseu: InSEA Publications, 2020. Open Access. 127-135.
“Teaching the 3.11 Earthquake and Disaster through Manga.” Manga!: Visual Pop-Culture in ARTS Education, co-edited by Masami Toku and Hiromi Dollase. Viseu: InSEA Publications, 2020. Open Access. 158-167.
“カタルシスとしての少女ホラーマンガ” (Horror Manga as Catharses for Girls). 少女マンガワンダーランド (Shōjo Manga Wonderland), co-edited by Satoko Kan, Hiromi Dollase, and Kayo Takeuchi. Meiji Shoin, 2012. 60-67.
“A Daughter’s Flight from M/Other in Yamagishi Ryōko’s ‘Yasha gozen’ (Lady Demon).” Childhood in Japanese History, co-edited by Eike Grossmann, Michael Kinski, and Harald Salomon. Harrassowitz Publishing House, 2016. 489-506.
“The Cute Little Girl living in the Imagined Japanese Past: Sakura Momoko’s Chibimaruko-chan.” International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture, edited by Masami Toku. Routledge, 2015. 40-49.
“Kawabata’s Wartime Message in Beautiful Voyage(Utsukushii tabi).” Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan, edited by Rachael Hutchinson. Routledge, 2013. 74-92.
“Ribbons Undone: Shōjo Story Debates in Prewar Japan.” Girl Reading Girl in Japan, co-edited by Tomoko Aoyama and Barbara Hartley. Routledge, 2009. 80-91.
“「若草物語」と日本の少女” (Little Women and Japanese girls). 少女小説ワンダーランド (Shōjo Novel Wonderland), edited by Kan Satoko. Meiji Shoin, 2008. 39-48.
Refereed Articles
“Love and Sexuality in Postwar Girls’ Culture: Examining Tomishima Takeo’s Junior Fiction.” U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal 62 (2022): 85-111.
“Sexualization of the Disabled Body: Tanabe Seiko’s ‘Joze to tora to sakanatachi (Josee, the Tiger and the Fish),’” U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal Vol. 43 (2012): 33-47.
“Choosing Your Family: Reconfiguring Gender and Familial Relationships in Japanese Popular Fiction,” Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 44, No.4 (2011): 755-772.
“‘Shōjo’ Spirits in Horror Manga,” U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal Vol. 38 (2010): 59-80.
“Shōfujin (Little Women): Recreating Jo for the Girls of Meiji Japan,” Japanese Studies, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2010): 247-262.
“Girls on the Homefront: The Examination of Shōjo no tomo 1938-1945,” Asian Studies Review 32 (2008): 323-339.
In the Media
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