Naohito Miura is a PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, specializing in East Asian Religions with a secondary field in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality. His research focuses on Japanese religions, new...
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My dissertation addresses contemporary Russian film and literature, feminist poetry, and cultural memory.
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Critical theory, literary theory, cultural studies.
Areas of interest:
Theory and history of feminism, gender...
Dissertation Topic: My dissertation asks how forgetting functions as an analytical concept that demonstrates how narrative texts work. I articulate this “Narratology of Forgetting” through readings of major works of prose fiction — from the end of German...
I first wandered into the WGS Department as a freshman and my decision to enroll in a seminar entitled, "Race, Gender, and Criminality," was one of the most influential decisions I made during my first year on campus. That seminar challenged so many of...
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"Afro-Filipino Archives: Sound Cultures and Performance Aesthetics, 1898-2020"
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Literary Analysis, Archival Theory and Practice, Performance Studies, Sound Studies, Sensory Ethnography, Ethnic Studies, and Gender and...
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My dissertation addresses imaginations of the night in colonial and postcolonial Lagos. Retracing the legacies of colonialism on urban (night)life and their reinforcement by contemporary neoliberal logics, I draw the contours of a...
I was drawn to WGS as a concentrator because I wanted rigorous training in feminist thought to give me a foundation for thinking across disciplines and to help me understand the structures of power and inequality in the world around me. I was particularly...
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We are in the midst of a global biodiversity crisis in which half or more of all species could go extinct within decades. My dissertation, The Future is Species-Queer: Gender, Race & Sexuality in the Sciences of the Biodiversity Crisis...
Dissertation topic: Treating Clothes: Dress and the Sciences of Subjectivity
Research methods: Archival research,visual analysis, close reading, material culture
Areas of Interest: History of the human sciences; women, gender, and sexuality studies; fashion...
