Hiroko Saito

2019-2021 Hiroko Saito is a Ph.D candidate at the Department of American Studies, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She received a Master’s degree in English from the Graduate School of Letters, Arts and Sciences at Waseda University. She is currently working on her dissertation which explores the impact of Japanese anglophone writers in the pre-WWII period on the US-Japan relationship focusing on women’s autobiographies published in the 1920s and the 1930s. Her other academic interests are Japanese American literature, trans-Pacific studies, and gender and sexuality studies.