Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase

Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase grew up in Osaka, Japan. She received her PhD in comparative literature (Japanese and American literature) at Purdue University in 2003. She worked at Beloit College as an instructor from 2002–2003. She joined the Vassar faculty in 2003. 

Her areas of research include Japanese women’s literature, girls’ magazine culture, and manga. She is also interested in the integration of popular media into language teaching. At Vassar, she teaches content courses such as, “Japanese Popular Culture and Literature,” “Youth in Japanese Literature” and “The Gothic and the Supernatural in Japanese Literature,” in addition to language courses.

She is the author of Age of Shojo: The Emergence, Evolution and Power of Japanese Girls’ Magazine Fiction (SUNY Press, 2019).  Her other publications include “Ribbons Undone: The Shōjo Story Debates in Prewar Japan” in Girl Reading Girl in Japan (ed. Tomoko Aoyama and Barbara Hartley, Routledge, 2009) and “Kawabata’s Wartime Message in Utsukushii tabi (Beautiful Voyage)” in Negotiating Censorship in Modern Japan (ed. Rachel Hutchinson, Routledge, 2013). She co-edited special issues of The US-Japan Women’s Journal; “Shojo Manga: Past, Present, and Fure” (2010) and “Girls and Literature” (2022). She also worked on co-edited books entitled Shōjo Manga Wonderland (co-edited with Satoko Kan and Kayo Takeuchi, Meiji Shoin, 2012) and Manga!: Visual-Pop Culture in ARTS Education (co-edited with Masami Toku, InSEA Publications, 2020).