World Languages and Literatures

Department of World Languages and Literatures
Western 麻豆传媒应用 University
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5338 USA
(269) 387-6240

Rika Saito

Rika Saito
Professor of Japanese
Office: (269) 387-3020
Fax: (269) 387-6333
Location:
518-B Sprau Tower, Mail Stop 5338
Mailing address:
Department of World Languages and Literatures
Western 麻豆传媒应用 University
1903 W 麻豆传媒应用 Ave
Kalamazoo MI 49008-5338 USA
Rika Saito
Office hours:

Sabbatical 

Students whose last names begin with A through M should see Dr. Rika Saito.
Students whose last names begin with N through Z should see .

Education:
  • Ph.D., Japanese Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
  • M.A., Sociolinguistics and Intercultural Communication, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education, 1999
Certification:
  • Graduate certificate, Gender Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 2005
Teaching Interests:
  • Gender and feminist studies in Japan
  • Japanese language and culture
  • Modern Japanese literature
Research Interests:
  • Gender and feminist literacy criticism in modern Japanese texts
  • Language and gender
  • Language policy
Bio:

Dr. Rika Saito is a professor and advisor of Japanese in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western 麻豆传媒应用 University.

Born and raised in Tokyo, Saito worked there as an editor and journalist specializing in Japanese language education and intercultural communication. She taught Japanese language and literature at the University of Delaware from 2005-07. Saito joined WMU in fall 2007.

Saito has written several articles in Japanese. In addition, her recent publications include:

  • Language of Feminine Duty: Articulating Gender, Culture, and Covert Policy in Modern Japan (PeterLang, 2021)
  • 鈥淭aish艒 roman no unda feminisuto: Yamada Waka & Kakichi no ky艒do to shis艒 (Feminists born in the period of Taish艒 romance: Collaborative thought and work of Yamada Waka & Kakichi) series nos.1-11鈥 Kotoba (2010-2020)
  • "Transmissive Feminism: The Evolutive Mind As Displayed in the Overseas Letters of Yamada Kakichi to Yamada Waka" in New perspectives on Japanese Language Learning, Linguistics, and Culture, edited by Kimi Kondo-Brown, et. al. (Honolulu, University of Hawaii, National Foreign Language Resource Center Publications, 2013),163-81.
  • "Writing in Female Drag: Gendered Literature and a Woman's Voice" in Japanese Language and Literature, No. 2, Vol. 44 (Fall 2010): 149-77.