Emily Lopez
Ph.D. Candidate in Japanese Literature
Emily Lopez studies contemporary Japanese literature from the 1960s to the 1980s, focusing on representations of activism, violence, and resistance. She earned her B.A. in Japanese from the University of California, Davis, in 2020, followed by an M.A. in Japanese literature from the University of California, Berkeley. Her Master's thesis explored depictions of matraphobia and maternal violence in Takahashi Takako's short stories Sōjikei and Keshin, arguing that Takahashi's fiction serves as a site for female-subject formation, particularly the often underrepresented voice of the post-adolescent female. As a doctoral student, Emily plans to continue studying literature while expanding her research to include film and mixed media.