Assistant Professor

Chinese, German, Italian, Japanese, and Russian Studies, Japanese Program and Chinese Program

Francesca Pizarro is Assistant Professor of Japanese. She teaches Japanese language and topics courses in Japanese literature and culture. She received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese) from the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa in 2023. Her dissertation examined the representation of gender and space in early-twentieth century Japanese fiction featuring the figure of the schoolgirl or jogakusei.  Broadly, her research interests include gender and sexuality in modern and contemporary Japanese literature, spatial literary studies, Japanese women writers, women’s studies, and girls’ studies.

 

2023-2024 courses

Block 3-4: Elementary Japanese (JA101/PA102)

Block 5: Topics in Japanese Studies “The Tale of Heike and its Afterlives” (JA 250/PA250)

Block 7: Topics in Japanese Studies “Text and The City: From Meiji to the Allied Occupation” (JA250/PA250)

Block 8: Intermediate Japanese II (JA202/PA222)