Anna Specchio
スペッキオ・アンナ
Japanese Language and Literature Professor
Contemporary Japanese Women's Writing, Women Studies, Contemporary Literature, Posthuman Studies and/in Literature, Women's representations in Literature, Bodies in Literature, Literary Translation, Literature and Manga, Utopian/Dystopian Writings
English, Japanese, Italian
Torino , Italy
Tenure-track Assistant Professor - Japanese Language and Literature (University of Turin, Italy). Her research deals with postmodern and contemporary Japanese Women’s Literature, that she approaches through the lenses of Women's studies, Gender Studies and Queer Studies, as well as Posthuman Studies. She is also interested in the intersections between manga and literature. She has translated in italian several works of contemporary Japanese Writers, such as Hayashi Mariko, Iwaki Kei, Matsuura Rieko, Sakuraba Kazuki, Kashimada Maki, Ono Miyuki, Li Kotomi and so on. She authored papers on Ogawa Yōko, Hayashi Mariko, Wataya Risa, Murata Sayaka and Matsuura Rieko, and she is co-editor with M. Cestari, G. Coci, D. Moro of the volume Orizzonti Giapponesi: ricerche, idee, prospettive (Aracne, 2018); and with P. Scrolavezza and G. Scatasta of the volume NipPop: 10 anni di cultura pop giapponese in Italia (Mimesis, 2023); She edited the volume 現代女性作家読本第3期21号ー村田沙耶香 Gendai josei sakka tokuhon dai 3 ki 21 go - Murata Sayaka [Special Volume on Contemporary Women's Writers, third series, n. 21 : Murata Sayaka] (Kanae shobo, 2024).
PhD, Digital Humanities - Japanese Language and Literature, Torino University / Genova University, Torino, 2019
Ma, Translation Studies, Torino University, Torino, 2011
Ba, Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Torino University, Torino, 2007
スペッキオ・アンナ (変), 現代女性作家読本第3期21号ー村田沙耶香Gendai josei sakka tokuhon dai 3 ki 21 go - Murata Sayaka (鼎書房Kanae shobo, 2024)
Anna Specchio, "Consumed Bodies and Unhinged Women. The dystopian worlds of Murata Sayaka's Seimeishiki (Life Ceremony, 2013) and Ono Miyuki's 'Karada o uru koto' ('Selling the Body,' 2020), DIVE-IN – An International Journal on Diversity and Inclusion, Vol. 3, N. 2 (2014): 135–158.
Anna Specchio, "The Step to Trample the Unexplored. Family, School Girlishness, and Lesbian Panic in Matsuura Rieko's Saiai no Kodomo (The Most Beloved Child,2017)," N. Cornyetz e R. Copeland (eds). Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers. A Special Collection of Essays, (Routledge, 2023): 11-28.
Anna Specchio, “Food e Porn. Declinazioni di sesso e cibo in Fukigen na kajitsu, L’ultimo volo per Tokyo e Bishoku kurabu di Hayashi Mariko,” P. Scrolavezza, G. Scatasta e A. Specchio (eds). NipPop – 10 anni di cultura giapponese in Italia, (Mimesis, 2023): 325-352.
Anna Specchio, “Women and Queer Kinships: Matsuura Rieko, Fujino Chiya, and Murata Sayaka,” Rebecca Copeland (eds), Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers (MHM Limited, 2022): 209-223.
スペッキオ・アンナ、“綿矢りさ『インストール』と柳美里『自殺の国』の間で ―サイボーグ化する若者たち― (Wataya Risa Insutōru to Yu Miri Jisatsu no kuni no aida de: saibōguka suru wakamonotachi). In 國學院雑誌 (Kokugakuin zasshi. Journal of Kokugakuin University), V. 123 (2/2022): 37-51.
スペッキオ・アンナ、“自分ひとりのチャット部屋―二〇年後に再読する綿矢りさ『インストール』 (Jibun hitori no chatto heya: nijūnengo ni saidoku suru Wataya Risa Insutōru)”. In 國學院雑誌 (Kokugakuin zasshi. Journal of Kokugakuin University), V. 122 (04/2021): 19-34.
Anna Specchio, “No Sex and the Paradise City - A critical reading of Murata Sayaka’s Shōmetsu sekai 消滅世界 (2015),”International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, V. 24 N. 2 (2020): 373-396.
- PRIN 2022. Member of the Project "GETTING READY FOR THE PRESENT - NEW GLOBAL DYSTOPIAN IMAGINARIES AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT" (Bologna University's PI P. Scrolavezza, Torino University's local PI G. Coci), 2023-2025
- HORIZON 2020. Member of the Project "Be-Archaeo (Beyond Archaeology)" (Torino Universty, PI. E. Diana), 2022-2023
- Torino University Young Researchers Premiality Grant, 2022
- Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship Program (Short-Term), Nov. 2021- Jan. 2022
- Postdoc Research Fellowhip from Torino University, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021
- Young Translator from Japanese "Antonietta Pastore Scholarship", 2017
- PhD Scholarship from Italian Government, 2015-2018
- JASSO Scholarship for 1 year at TUFS, 2009-2010
- Ishikawa Foundation Scholarship for studying in Kanazawa, Sept-Oct. 2006
- EAJS - European Association for Japanese Studies
- AISTUGIA - Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi
- AJLS - Association for Japanese Literary Studies
- NYCAS - New York Conference Association on Asian Studies