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写真b

 
ITOH MEGU
 
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Affiliation*
College of Intercultural Communication Department of Intercultural Communication
Title*
Assistant Professor
Contact information
Mail Address
Research Interests

  • Communication

  • Cultural Studies

  • Media

  • Gender

  • Rhetoric

    • Campus Career*
    • 4 2024 - Present 
      College of Intercultural Communication   Department of Intercultural Communication   Assistant Professor
     

    Research History

    • 12 2024 - Present 
      International Christian University   College of Liberal Arts Major: Media, Communication and Culture   Part-Time Instructor

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      Country：Japan

      Notes：Course Taught: Contemporary Communication Praxis

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    • 4 2024 - Present 
      Rikkyo University   College of Intercultural Communication   Assistant Professor

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    • 8 2023 - 4 2024 
      University of Maryland College Park   Department of Communication   Curriculum Development: Civic Engagement Coordinator

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      Notes：I worked with the Basic Course Director to revise "Critical Thinking and Speaking," creating a new syllabus, assignments, and rubrics.

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    • 8 2019 - 4 2024 
      University of Maryland College Park   Department of Communication   Instructor

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      Country：United States

      Notes：I was the instructor of record (sole instructor) for the following courses: Public Speaking, Argumentation and Debate, Critical Thinking and Speaking

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    Education

    • 8 2019 - 3 2024 
      The University of Maryland College Park   Department of Communication, Ph.D.

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    • 8 2014 - 5 2018 
      The College of Wooster   Communication Studies and Chinese (Double Major), B.A.

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    Papers

    • Derailing the capitalist engine: theorizing relations of mujō through <i>Mugen Train</i> Peer-reviewed

      Megu Itoh, Fielding Montgomery, Taylor Hourigan

      Quarterly Journal of Speech   1 - 22   19 4 2024

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      Authorship：Lead author   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Informa UK Limited  

      DOI： 10.1080/00335630.2024.2340036

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    • Art as Anti-Nuclear Activism: Takeda Shinpei's Hibakusha Voiceprints in Alpha Decay Peer-reviewed

      Takeda Shinpei, Megu Itoh

      The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus21 ( 11 ) 1 - 18   11 2023

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      Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)  

      Takeda Shinpei was invited to create an art installation at Centro Nacional de las Artes, located in Mexico City. This chapter is a vivid telling of Takeda’s process working on this piece, part of his Alpha Decay series which foregrounds voice vibrations of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings. Takeda details the ways in which he drew from his own memories of adolescence, reckoned with voices of the “hibakusha,” and channeled these complex and haunting intersections through his body into his art. Takeda thus weaves a powerful yet honest and vulnerable narrative that shares reflections on method and ethical praxis.

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    • Slithering toward Social Change: Mobile Reverberations of Anticolonial Dissent across Time and Space Peer-reviewed

      Meg Itoh

      Journal for the History of Rhetoric26 ( 2 ) 165 - 176   13 7 2023

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      Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：The Pennsylvania State University Press  

      Abstract

      I explore the ways in which practicing rhetorical analysis transnationally in motu reveals coalitional moments that were previously obfuscated by dominant narratives of rhetorical history. I offer rhetoric transnationally in motu as a method of engaging the mobility of artifacts across time and space, a method that, in turn, enables decentering the nation-state, tracing reverberations of anticolonial dissent, and threading fragments together by reading against and alongside the archival grain. To demonstrate this methodological approach, I analyze the protest technique of “snake-dancing” used by the Zengakuren in Japan and the Yippies in the United States. Although the Zengakuren and the Yippies were active in different time periods and in different geographic locations, by examining their uses of the same protest technique, I am able to suggest that the two groups shared a transnational coalitional moment in which they were fleetingly and intangibly connected through the same echoing reverberations of anticolonial dissent.

      DOI： 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.26.2.0165

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    • Understanding transnational decontextualization-recontextualization through <i>Shingeki no Kyojin</i>: The perils and possibilities surrounding Japanese manga and anime Peer-reviewed

      Fielding Montgomery, Megu Itoh

      Critical Studies in Media Communication40 ( 2-3 ) 163 - 176   27 5 2023

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      Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Informa UK Limited  

      DOI： 10.1080/15295036.2023.2228390

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    Presentations

    • Japan-U.S. Communication Research Agenda and Scholarship Beyond Western-Centered Theories and Practices: Future Research Collaboration for Greater Regard Invited International conference

      11 2024 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (invited, special)  

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    • Decolonization for a Greater Regard: Unsettling (Asian/American) Settler Colonialism International conference

      11 2024 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Beyond Precarity: Puncturing Circulations of Hate Speech to Recognize the ‘Other'

      Megu Itoh

      11 2024 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

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    • Fighting for the Right to Labor: Menstruation Leave, (Un)Containment, and Transcolonial Intimacies in Occupied Japan (1945-1952) International conference

      Megu Itoh

      11 2024 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Along, Against, and Across the Grain: Reading Transnational and International Rhetorics in U.S.-Based University Archives and Special Collections International conference

      5 2024 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Cooking Through Colonial Tensions: Japanese Women Navigating Empire and Agency Under American Occupation International conference

      Megu Itoh

      4 2024 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Pursuits of Transnational Belonging: Resistant Relationalities Beyond the Nation-State International conference

      11 2023 

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    • Illuminating Intimacies of Labor: Technical Interns, Corporate Colonialism, and Reclaiming Reproductive Justice International conference

      Megu Itoh

      3 2023 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

      Venue：State College, Pennsylvania  

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    • (Re)theorizing Kizuna: Reimagining Relationality for More Livable Lives International conference

      Megu Itoh

      11 2022 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Flipping the Script in Transnationally Networked Public Spheres: Reframing Japan’s Foreigner Ban as a Human Rights Issue International conference

      Megu Itoh

      11 2022 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Derailing the Neoliberal Capitalist Engine: Mugen Train as Liberation from Necropolitics in Japan and Abroad International conference

      11 2022 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Toward Anticolonial Ethical Argumentation: Decentering Western Thought Through Interdependent Networks

      6 2022 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Futures of Transnational Feminist Rhetorical Research and Practices International conference

      5 2022 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

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    • Enacting Resistance at Volatile Borders: Myanmarese Protesters, Japan, and Relationships of Oppression International conference

      Megu Itoh

      5 2022 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Slithering Toward Social Change: Mobility, Power, and Transnational Rhetorics of Resistance International conference

      Megu Itoh

      5 2022 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Consuming Counterradiation Foods: Healing and Reclaiming Agency in the Wake of Nuclear Trauma International conference

      Megu Itoh

      4 2022 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Becoming Honorary Americans to Speak: The Hong Kong Protests as a Battleground for Digital Colonization and Transnational Enactments of American Patriotism as a Means of Resistance International conference

      Megu Itoh

      4 2022 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

      Venue：Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  

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    • Disrupting Nihonjinron: The Rise of Naomi Osaka and her Transformation of Japanese Identity International conference

      11 2021 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Cooking One’s Way Out of Containment: Kamala Harris, Culinary Tourism, and Material Manifestations of Power International conference

      11 2021 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Poster presentation  

      Scholar-to-Scholar Session - Asian/Pacific American Caucus and Division

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    • Decolonial-Recolonial Transformations of Meaning: A Case Study of Shingeki no Kyojin International conference

      11 2021 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

      Japan-U.S. Communication Association

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    • “Eating Up a Week’s Worth of their Food": Butsubutsukōkan/Trading as a Form of Culinary Reckoning Between Japanese Civilians and American Occupational Soldiers International conference

      Megu Itoh

      11 2021 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Reimagining Community and Strengthening Kizuna for Voluntary Submission: National Identity and Duties of Citizenship in Abe’s Jishuku Centered COVID-19 Response International conference

      Megu Itoh

      4 2021 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Barring diseased Chinese bodies: Xenophobic violence as a cultural fixture in the United States

      Megu Itoh

      11 2020 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • Constructing a Third Direction: Comparative Rhetoric to Deconstruct the East vs. West Binary International conference

      Megu Itoh

      2 2020 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

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    • What kind of country do we live in?’: Black bodies resisting white supremacy International conference

      Megu Itoh

      4 2018 

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      Language：English   Presentation type：Oral presentation (general)  

      Undergraduate Honors Research Division

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    Professional Memberships

    • 5 2022 - Present 
      Rhetoric Society of America

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    • 8 2019 - Present 
      National Communication Association

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    Social Contribution

    • Advocacy in Action: Addressing and Resisting anti-Asian/AAPI Violence

      Presenter,　Planner,　Organizing member,　Investigater

      3 2021

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      Type：Seminar, workshop

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