Staff profile

Dr Elise Foxworth

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Social Sciences

SS 416, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (French & Japanese-College of Wooster, Ohio), Grad Dip (Japanese-Sophia University, Tokyo), MA (Japanese Studies-Monash), PhD (Japanese & Cultural Studies-Melbourne).

Membership of professional associations

Member of Asian Studies Association of Australia. Member of Japanese Studies Association of Australia.

Area of study

Japanese
Asian Studies

Brief profile

Elise Foxworth lectures in Japanese language and society. She spent eight years living in Japan, where she lived with three – one Japanese and two Korean – families, for a year with each, in Tokyo, Kawasaki and Osaka respectively. She does research in Japanese studies and post-colonial studies, with a focus on the Japanese literature written by diasporic Korean writers in Japan. She is also engaged in literary translation from Japanese into English.

Research interests

Asian Cultural Studies

- Japanese literature

- Koreans in Japan

Asian History

- Post-war Japanese society

Japanese Languages

- Japanese language teaching and literary translation

Post Colonial Studies

- Post-colonial studies

Teaching units

  • Advanced-Intermediate Japanese Language.
  • Understanding Contemporary Japan.
  • Japanese History.
  • Japanese Society.
  • Australia-Japan Social Relations.
  • Japan in the Twenty-first Century.

Recent publications

Publications

  • Foxworth, E. (Forthcoming) ‘The Trope of the Ghost and Cultural Hybridity in Kim Sok Pom’s Mandogi Yūrei Kitan (The Extraordinary Ghost Story of Mandogi)’ in Re-Centering Asia: Histories, Encounters, Identities  Ed. Henry Johnson, Jacob Edmond and Jacqueline Leckie. Brill.
  • Foxworth, E. 2011, English translation of two chapters of Japanese novel, Kogoeru Kuchi [Frozen Mouth], (1971) by Kim, Ha Gyong. Heibonsha. In  Into the Light: An Anthology of Literature by Koreans in Japan. Ed. Melissa Wender. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press, 92-111.
  • Foxworth, E. 2010, “The Personal is Political in Kinuta wo Utsu Onna [The Cloth Fuller]: A ‘Little’ Narrative by Zainichi Korean Writer Lee Hoe Sung” in Contemporary Japan, 22, 1-2 (Oct): 202-221.
  • Foxworth, E. 2009, “On the Margins of Japanese Literature: Kim Ha Gyong’s Kogoeru Kuchi” in the Proceedings of The Eighth International Symposium on Japanese Language Education and Japanese Studies.
  • Foxworth, E. 2006, ‘A Tribute to the Japanese Literature of Korean Writers in Japan’ in New Voices Japan Foundation, 1 (Dec) Nominated for the Inoue Hisashi Prize.
  • Foxworth, E. 2001, ‘Ri Kai Sei: A Korean Writer in Japan. The Evolution of a Korean Subjectivity’ Annual Report of the Institute for International Studies. Meiji Gakuin University, (Dec): 47-59.
  • Foxworth, E. 2000, Review of Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction by Leela Gandhi. Australia: Allen & Unwin 1998. Thesis Eleven 62, 1 (Mar): 139-142.
  • Foxworth, E. 1998, Review of Japan, Time Space & Nation by Tessa Morris Suzuki. New York: M. E. Sharpe 1997. The Journal of Intercultural Studies. Dec.
  • Foxworth, E. 1997, Review of Encounters With Japan, Ed. Jennifer Duffy and Gary Anson.  Sydney: Angus and Robertson 1994. Bulletin of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia. April Ed. Feb.
  • Foxworth, E. 1997. Review of An Introduction to Japanese Society, by Yoshio Sugimoto. United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press 1997. Asian Studies Association of Australia. July.
  • Foxworth, E. 1995. Abstract based on presentation. ‘Understanding Asia Through Language: Japanese’.  Proceedings of the Context Event, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. The paper outlines an approach to teaching Japanese as part of a general studies program. See http://www.rmit.edu.au/ departments/cc/foxworth.htm. Nov.

Research projects

  • My research interests are in the fields of Japanese studies and cultural studies. Specifically, I am interested in minorities in Japan (the Korean diaspora in particular), Japanese literature and, in broad terms, post-war Japan. Within the purview of cultural studies I am interested in post-colonial literature and theory as well as identity studies and, especially, how identity is articulated in literary prose.
  • I am in the process of converting my PhD “Closing the Distance: Identity and Self-Representation in the Japanese Literature of Three Korean Writers in Japan: Kim Sok Pom, Lee Hoe Sung and Kim Ha Gyong” into a monograph.
  • I am currently writing an article entitled “The Personal is Political in the Japanese literature of Korean writer, Lee Hoe Sung: Kinuta wo Utsu Onna [The Cloth Fuller] (1971)” for Volume 22 of the journal Contemporary Japan, entitled “Mind the Gap: Stratification and Social Inequalities in Japan” to be published in October 2010 by Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York.
  • I am also engaged in the translation of Japanese literature by Korean writers in Japan.