DarylMaude

  • Assistant Professor of Japanese
  • Affiliate Faculty in LGBTQ Studies
Address

Eaton Humanities (HUMN)225

Office Hours

Wednesdays 2-3:30pm or by appointment

Daryl Maude received a BA in Japanese from the University of Leeds, an MA in Japanese Literature from the University of London, and a PhD in Modern Japanese Literature and Critical Theory from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to coming to Boulder, he was a postdoctoral associate at Duke University, and from 2011 to 2013 he was a research student at Waseda University as the recipient of a Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) scholarship.

Daryl’s research focuses on modern and contemporary literature (prose, poetry, and criticism) written in Japanese. His current project examines how, during the Cold War and into the present day, the future has been imagined by queer people, Okinawans, sex workers, and others marginalized by mainstream Japanese society. Amid the triangular relationship between mainland Japan, Okinawa, and the USA, his research looks at partial, fragmentary, and messy visions of the future in literature and media, and asks how, amidst violence, creators make work that imagine otherwise.


Publications:

  • “Learning Queerness: Pedagogy and Normativity in Tagame Gengorō's Otōto no otto.” Chapter in Literature in Heisei Japan, 1989-2019, edited by Angela Yiu. Sophia University Press, January 2024.
  • “Writing with Bruised Fruit: A Review of Lauren Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People.” Qui Parle, 32:3, June 2024.
  • “Queer Nations and Trans-lations: A Review of Akiko Shimizu, ““Imported” Feminism and “Indigenous” Queerness: From Backlash to Transphobic Feminism in Transnational Japanese Context”.” Postmodern Culture, 30:2, 2020.


Translations:

Ikuo Shinjo, “Male Sexuality in the Colony: On Toyokawa Zen’ichi’s ‘Searchlight’” in Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia, edited by Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe, Hong Kong University Press, 2019.


Research Interests:

Modern and contemporary Japanese literature, Okinawan literature and cultural production, Japanese criticism, sexuality, futurity, race and ethnicity, queer theory, feminist theory, affect theory, psychoanalysis, speculative fiction.