大藤恵子

Home / Address: 5 Charles St., Lewiston, ME 04240 U.S.A.
59 Fukuhara Chizu-cho Yazu-gun Tottori, 689-1425 JAPAN
E-mail: kofuji@bates.edu
Keiko Ofuji was a lecturer in the Asian Studies Program. She studied
linguistics and teaching of second languages, methods of teaching Japanese,
and Japanese art and literature at University of Kansas, Cornell University,
and Colombia University. She received her M.A. degree in East Asian Studies
from University of Kansas. Her Masters thesis was Dowa (Human Rights)
Education through Children's Books.
Keiko Ofuji's research program focuses on Buraku Issues and
sexual minority Issues as well as the current situation and problems of sexuality
education in Japan. Her most recent work is translation of a children's book, "The Princes and the Treasure" (2015) written by Jeffrey Mills. Other 'essays' appear in "Japan,
lesbian and bisexual youth," "Japan, Gay and Transgender Youth in," and
"Japan, LGBT Educational Issues in" for Youth,
Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, Vol 1 A-J, (Greenwood
Press: CT, 2005). She worked on translation, "My Coming
Out Story as a Gay Teacher in Kyoto"and others
for The Journal of Gay and Lesbian
Issues in Education.
She regularly wrote report-essays for a Japanese educational journal, Kikan
Sexuality (Eidel Research Publishing: Tokyo) since 2005. Also, she
translated and/or wrote Japanese subtitles for English films (100% Women, Boy
I Am, etc.) for the annual Kansai Queer
Film Festival in Osaka, Japan.
Her teaching included Japanese language courses at all levels and
cultural courses on Japanese art and crafts as well as Japanese people and
society including family, minority issues, education, conventions, and tradition.
She also advised senior theses written in Japanese language.