Tomoko Kuribayashi BIO Professor Emerita Tomoko Kuribayashi is teaching Contemporary Fiction, American Literature (James to present), Literary Theory, and Composition for the Department of English at UW-Stevens Point. PUBLICATIONS “The Monstrous ‘Mother’ in Moto Hagio’s Marginal: The Posthuman, the Human, and the Bio-Engineered Uterus,” Monstrous Women in Comics, edited by Samantha Langsdale and Elizabeth Rae Cody, University Press of Mississippi, 2020. RESEARCH INTERESTS Contemporary Fiction, especially by women authors, such as Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro Japanese Manga, especially by Moto Hagio Science or Speculative Fiction LAST BOOK READ The True Star by Monica Byrne Senior Lecturer, English Email: tomoko.kuribayashi@uwsp.edu Education Ph.D. - English, Feminist Studies minor University of Minnesota MA - English University of Alberta MA - English University of Tokyo BA - English University of Tokyo Courses American Literature (James to present) Composition Contemporary Fiction Literary Theory