Presentations

• “Transpacific Jim Crow: Reconfiguring Racial Ideology in Occupied Japan,” University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/03/2022.
• “Zainichi Women and Transpacific Feminisms: Yu Miri and the Politics of Global Representation,” Osaka University Global Japanese Research Workshop, Osaka, Japan. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/30/2022.
• “Language in Kim Saryang’s Slumscapes: Transnational, Regional, Incommensurable,” Association for Asian Studies. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/26/2022.
• "Unmaking the Multilingual: Pseudo-Translation in Yi Yangji's Yuhi," Association for Asian Studies (virtual conference). Conference Paper, Presented, 03/24/2021.
• "What Was Zainichi Literature? Intersectionality, Incoherence, and 'Post-Racial' Temporalities in Japan," East Asia Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 11/16/2020.
• "The Intersectional Politics of Speaking: Ethnicity, Disability, and the Othered Body in Kin Kakuei’s Kogoeru kuchi," Asian Studies Conference Japan, Saitama, Japan. Conference Paper, Presented, 06/30/2019.
• “Writing in Diaspora and the Postcoloniality of Modern Asian Literatures,” Counter-Readings: East Asian Literary Histories Symposium, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/27/2019.
• "The Taste of Empathy: Virtual Intimacy and Exclusion in Korean Broadcast Eating," Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Seattle, Washington. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/16/2019.
• “'Your Silence Will Not Protect You': Yu Miri and the End of Zainichi Literature,” Modern Language Association, Chicago, Illinois. Conference Paper, Presented, 01/06/2019.
• "Zainichi Literature and the Rhetoric of Colorblindness," Zainichi Literature Symposium, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/21/2018.
• "Translations without Originals: Bilingual Affect in Kim Sŏkpŏm's Postwar Fiction," Association for Asian Studies, Washington, DC. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/23/2018.
• "Zainichi Writers and the Postcoloniality of Modern Korean Literature," Korean Literature Association Workshop, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 10/27/2017.
• “The Place of Language, the Language of Place: Narrative Voice as Traveler-Translator in Yi Yangji's Yuhi,” Inaugural Workshop on Zainichi Literary Studies, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 04/22/2017.
• “Empire of the Mute: Reading Othered Bodies in (Post-)Imperial Japan,” Empire of Others Conference, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/22/2017.
• “Yu Miri, ‘Post-Race,’ and the End of Zainichi Literature,” Association for Asian Studies, Toronto, Ontario. Conference Paper, Presented, 03/17/2017.
• “The Intersectional Politics of Speaking: Ethnicity, Disability, and the Sonic Imagination in Kin Kakuei's Kogoeru kuchi,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Conference Paper, Presented, 01/05/2017.
• “Korean Global and the Suturing of Worlds in Wonderful Days,” Mechademia Conference on Asian Popular Cultures, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Conference Paper, Presented, 09/25/2016.

Languages

• Japanese, fluent.
• Korean, fluent.

Geographical Regions of Interest

• Japan
• Republic of Korea

Publications

• Cindi Textor & Soo Mi Lee (2022). Translation: Nabi T'aryong and Other Stories. Seoul Selection. Published, 12/2022.
• Cindi Textor (2022). Implicated Reading: Medoruma Shun's Me no oku no mori and the Ethics of Narrative Transmission. Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus. Vol. 20:18, Article ID 5748. Published, 11/2022.
  https://apjjf.org/2022/18/Textor.html
• Cindi Textor (2022). Whose Korea is it? Reading Zainichi Literature Intersectionally. Routledge Companion to Korean Literature (ed. Heekyoung Cho). (pp. 412-424). Routledge. Published, 03/2022.
• Cindi Textor (2020). Zainichi Writers and the Postcoloniality of Modern Korean Literature. Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean Literature (ed. Yoon Sun Yang). Published, 05/2020.
• Cindi Textor (2019). Representing Radical Difference: Kim Sŏkpŏm’s Korea(n) in Japan(ese). positions: asia critique. Vol. 27:3, 499-529. Published, 08/2019.
  https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-7539290
• Cindi Textor (2019). Literature of the Concealed Home: Passing and Imperial Periphery in Yamanokuchi Baku’s Prose Fiction. Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture. Vol. 12, 301-333. Published, 05/2019.
  https://doi.org/10.1353/aza.2019.0015
• Cindi Textor (2018). Queer(ing) Language in Yi Kwangsu's Mujŏng: Sexuality, Nation, and Colonial Modernity. Journal of Korean Studies. Vol. 23(1), 67-96. Published, 03/2018.
  https://doi.org/10.1215/21581665-4339062
• Translation: Kim Sŏk-pŏm, The Curious Tale of Mandogi's Ghost. Columbia University Press, 2010. Published, 10/2010.