中村 麻美

The focus of my interest has been on the generative aspect of nostalgia, particularly in speculative fiction. In my past presentation on a Black Mirror episode, ‘San Junipero'(2016), I explored the idea of queer nostalgia which involves an attempt to revision mainstream collective imaginaries to reclaim the existence of minoritarian subjects. I further developed this idea in my article on Ishiguro’s _Never Let Me Go_ (2005), with a focus on gender and sexuality. My current projects are on techno-orientalism, digital injustice and waste colonialism. 

英語圏文学、特にユートピア・ディストピア文学やサイエンス／スペキュラティブ・フィクションを専門としており、文学が如何にオルタナティブな社会を想像するための媒介物として機能するか、という問いについて日々研究しています。方法論としてはフェミニズム批評やクィア批評とSF研究を掛け合わせることで、様々な主体性・時間性を探求しています。

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Asami NAKAMURA (they/them) is a lecturer in European and American Studies in the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies at Kobe University, Japan. Since completing a Ph.D. (University of Liverpool) on nostalgia in dystopian and homecoming novels by Katharine Burdekin, George Orwell, Margaret Atwood and Kazuo Ishiguro, they have been teaching and doing research on utopian/dystopian literature and science fiction at various universities in Japan. Their major publications include ‘On the Uses of Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s _Never Let Me Go_’ (Science Fiction Studies, vol. 48, 2021), _Reading The Handmaid’s Tale: Beyond Feminist Dystopia_(a collection of essays in Japanese co-edited by themselves and Megumi Kato [2023]). They also co-organised an international symposium with Stefan Würrer on feminist/queer utopias and dystopias at which they presented a paper on queer nostalgia in the Black Mirror episode ‘San Junipero’(2016).