Bio

Hiromi Kaneda is an Assistant Instructional Professor in Italian at the University of Florida. Her research focuses on gender studies, masculinity, and Italian and Japanese cinema within cultural studies. She earned her M.A. in Italian Literature from the University of Virginia and her Ph.D. in Italian from Rutgers University, where her dissertation examined post-World War II societal changes in Italy and Japan during the “Economic Miracle.” Her current work explores second-generation writers in Italy, and she is also studying the cultural reception of Japanese anime.