Grace En-Yi Ting

Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme

gting@hku.hk

Biography

Dr. Grace En-Yi Ting specializes in queer/feminist approaches to Japanese literary and cultural studies, with an emphasis on women writers in the modern period and girls’ culture. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Minor Intimacies: Queerness, the Normative, and the Everyday in Contemporary Japan, examining femininities and queer potentialities within literary as well as subcultural representations of daily life in post-1980’s Japan. Recently, she is interested in finding methodologies and forms of collaboration to situate Japanese texts and discourses within the broader contexts of queer Asian studies and Asian American studies. From 2018-2020, she is serving as co-chair of the Society for Queer Asian Studies (SQAS), an affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). Before joining HKU, she taught at Oberlin College and was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellow at Waseda University.

Research Interests

Japanese literature
Women writers
Girls’ culture
Queer Asian studies

Education

B.A., Wellesley College

M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University

Selected Publications

“Ekuni Kaori’s Tears in the Night: The Brilliance of Queer Readings for Contemporary Japan.” Journal of Japanese Studies (forthcoming, 2021).

“The Desire and Disgust of Sweets: Consuming Femininities through Shōjo Manga.” U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal 54 (2018): 52-74.

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