Biography

Mayumo Inoue studies American, Asian/American, Japanese, and Korean literatures as well as critical theory. He is interested in the intersection of mediated memory, aesthetics, and the ethico-political question of "community" that is inoperative and unavowable. More specifically, his work explores the ways in which a series of politically catastrophic colonial events in Asia Pacific and Asia/America continue to reappear as mediated images and narratives within 20th century American, Asian American, and East Asian literary and cinematic works.