Angelika Koch-Low

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https://cambridge.academia.edu/AngelikaKoch

I specialize in early modern Japanese language, literature and culture, with a particular focus on genders/sexualities and medicine.

I completed a Master in Japanese Studies and a Bachelor in English Literature at the University of Vienna, with periods of study at Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice and Meiji University in Tokyo. My Master’s thesis focused on the depiction of male-male same-sex desire in comic literature of the Edo period. I then studied for a PhD in Japanese at the University of Cambridge. My PhD thesis  Sexual Healing. Sexuality, Health and the Body in Early Modern Japan (1600-1868), which I am currently preparing for publication with Cambridge University Press, explored medical views of sex as a health and disease concept in the Edo period.

Moreover, I am also part of the collaborative project Timing Day and Night: ‘Timescapes’ in Pre-modern Japan, which explores time as a set of social practices prior to the introduction of the Western time system. (http://www.research.ames.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/japanese-korean-studies-rg/Japanese-korean-studies-rg-projects/timescapes). In April 2015, I convened the international conference Timing Day and Night  at the University of Cambridge. In September 2016, I was awarded a JSPS Fellowship at Tokyo University to pursue further research for this project in Japan.

Beyond this, my academic and teaching interests extend to modern and contemporary Japan, and I co-edited a volume of research on genders and sexualities (Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy. Studying Japanese Gender at Cambridge, LIT 2013).

 

Key Publications

2/2017

 ‘Nightless Cities. Timing the Pleasure Quarters in Early Modern Japan’, Kronoscope: The International Journal for the Study of Time 17/1 (Special Issue Timing Day and Night in Japan’s Past, ed. by Raji Steineck and Brigitte Steger)

2013

‘Sexual Healing. Regulating Male Sexuality in Edo Books on Nurturing Life’, International Journal of Asian Studies 10/2, pp. 143-170

2013

“Gender Matters”, in Brigitte Steger and Angelika Koch (eds) Manga Girl Seeks Herbivore Boy. Studies on Japanese Gender Identities from the University of Cambridge. LIT Publisher. (http://www.research.ames.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/japanese-korean-studi…)

2011

‘Between the Back and the Front: Male Love in Humorous Tales of the Edo Period’,Vienna Graduate Journal of East Asian Studies 1, pp. 1-32

Media Appearances

1/2015

‘Why Don’t Japanese Men Like Having Sex?’ The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11362306/Why-dont-Japanese-m…

2/2013

‘Herbivore Boys and Other Fault Lines in Japan’s Gender Crisis’ University of Cambridge Research News http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/herbivore-boys-and-other-fault-lines-in-japans-gender-crisis