Associate Professor

Department of British, American, and European Languages and Literatures, and Linguistics
(American and British Literature)

E-mail: kyokom[at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Indigenous American literature and nuclear/atomic bomb representations

• Contemporary American Literature
• Indigenous American Literature
• Nuclear/Atomic Bomb Literature
• Environmental Literature
• (Post)colonialism
• Ecocriticism

My special interests are Indigenous American, Environmental, Atomic Bomb or Nuclear Literatures. I especially focus on the representation of nuclear issues (nuclear science, uranium milling and mining, nuclear power plants, waste disposal, weapons testing, etc.) in Indigenous American Literature. My theoretical approaches are shaped by cultural studies theory, postcolonial theory, and environmental justice.

• [Article] “Indigenous Anti-Nuclear Literary Resistance: Jim Northrup’s Satire and Anishinaabe Trans/nationalism.” The Journal of Transnational American Studies. Vol. 11, Issue 2, 2020. 
• [Book Chapter] “Trinitite, Turquoise, and Rattlesnakes: Envisioning the (De)Nuclearized Desert in the Works of Leslie Silko and Kyoko Hayashi.” Reading Aridity in Western American Literature. Jada Ach and Gary Reger, editors. Lexington Books, 2020, pp. 195-222.
• [Monograph] American Indigenous Writers and Nuclear Literature: From Apocalypse to Survivance. Eihosha, 2019.
• [Co-edited] Transpacific Ecocriticism. Sairyusha, 2019.
• [Co-edited] Crossing the Waves of Ecocriticism: Living during the Anthropocene. Otowashobou-Tsurumi-Shoten, 2017.