Claire Maree

クレア・マリィ

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Current Position

Professor, University of Melbourne

Disciplines
Gender/Sexuality Studies Language/Linguistics Cultural Studies Queer Studies
Research Interests

language and sexuality, language and gender, queer theory, language in the media

Research Languages

Japanese

Current Location

Australia

About Me

 Claire Maree is a queer theorist and linguist with key expertise in language and identity, and language in the media. Claire’s work mobilises linguistic and cultural studies methodologies and has been foundational to establishment of language, gender and sexuality studies in relation to Japanese.

Education

PhD, Language and Information Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan, 2

Selected Publications

  • queerqueen:  Linguistic Excess in Japanese Media (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  • 「おネエことば」論 (青土社, 2013)

  • 発話者の言語ストラテジーとしてのネゴシエーション行為 (ひつじ書房, 2007)

  • Discourses of Disruption in the Time of COVID: Creating and Contesting Meaning through Asian languages [Nakane, Ikuko, Claire Maree and Michael Ewing (eds)] (Leiden University Press, 2023)

  • Discourse, Gender and Shifting Identities in Japan: The Longitudinal Study of Kobe Women’s Ethnographic Interviews 1989-2019, Phase One [Maree, Claire and Kaori Okano (eds)] (Routledge, 2018)

  • Pan, Qiuping and Claire Maree. 2023. ‘I didn’t Realise There Are So Many of Them’: Ethnic Chinese Women in the Civic Space in Victoria, Australia. Asia Studies Review, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2023.2220897

  • Nakane, Ikuko, Kaori Okano, Claire Maree, Shimako Iwasaki, Lidia Tanaka, Chie Takagi. 2022. Varying orientations to sharing life stories: a diachronic study of Japanese women’s discourse. Language in Society, 51(4): 577 – 602.

  • Tanaka, Lidia, Kaori Okano, Ikuko Nakane, Claire Maree, Shimako Iwasaki, Chie Takagi. 2021. Japanese women’s speech through life-transitions (1989-2000): an analysis of youth language features. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 31 (1): 119-143.

  • Pan, Qiuping, Jay Song, Ryan Gustafsson, Claire Maree. 2021. Sexual Citizenship and Asian Immigrants in Post-Marriage Equality Australia. Citizenship Studies, 25(8):1058-1076.

  • Maree, Claire. 2020, Genuinely Addressing Gender and Sexuality in the Language Classroom is Essential. Melbourne Asia Review, vol. 2, pp. 1--6.

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Last Updated

11/28/2025