| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
From April 2019 to March 2020, Dr. Grace Ting continued to work on a book manuscript titled “Minor Intimacies: Queerness, the Normative, and the Everyday.”
At the same time, she made fruitful progress into new areas of research.
Overall, progress was smooth, although it was disrupted at the end of this period due to problems such as library access during the pandemic.
During this period, she gave research presentations in Tokyo, Bangkok, and Lisbon, with additional presentations planned for the spring of 2020 that were cancelled due to the pandemic. These presentations were on topics such as attacks against gender studies, the future of the field of queer Asian studies, and queer and feminist Japanese webcomics. They showed not only attention to networking and creating dialogue with other gender studies scholars in Japan, but also disseminating research to an international audience. Cancelled presentations were on intersections of Japanese, Taiwanese, and Asian American literature, as well as Asian and Asian American comics. These presentations would have taken place in the cities of Boston, Ann Arbor, and D.C. in the United States and helped bridge Japanese literary studies with other fields such as Sinophone studies and Asian American studies.
Dr. Ting also published academic journal articles on gender studies and anime and manga studies and worked on revising articles on Japanese women writers that showcased her interdisciplinary knowledge of Japanese girls’ culture and queer theory.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Dr. Ting’s progress on the aforementioned projects has largely been smooth. In the summer of 2019, it was less possible for her to make substantial progress on her book project due to multiple presentations in other countries. However, from the fall until the end of the period, she was able to work steadily on the book project and other research while using the resources at Waseda University.
Furthermore, the research presentations and articles that she has completed will serve as a springboard for her next monograph. By simultaneously working on her current book project and looking ahead towards a future book project, she is on track for producing a high volume of strong research over the next few years.
The main point of difficulty was that she was forced to cancel research presentations scheduled for March 2020. These included a presentation at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting and an invited talk at the University of Michigan. Due to the limitations placed on worldwide travel beginning in March 2020, there were least lost opportunities to connect with other English-speaking scholars working in Asian studies and related disciplines.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
After March 2020, Dr. Ting’s main task is to stay on track with research despite lacking easy access to libraries at Waseda University and other institutions in Tokyo, as well as bookstores. One solution is to make use of research funds provided by JSPS in order to purchase important books for research. The pandemic has greatly impacted the progress of researchers around the world. However, her basic research goals of completing her book monograph and writing new research articles remain the same. She will work on the manuscript for her first book project and simultaneously make progress on other projects leading up to her second monograph.
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