Rei Magosaki
@rmagosaki.bsky.social
孫崎玲 Associate Prof of English, Chapman U. | Orange, CA | reimagosaki.info
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Rei Magosaki
@rmagosaki.bsky.social
· Apr 2
My new essay is now out from American Literature!
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies @dukepress.bsky.social
read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...
“Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies @dukepress.bsky.social
read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...
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I am so so sorry that Alice Wong has left. I didn’t know her well, but I knew her for a long time and had many convos - and her words, her advocacy, and her humor meant so much for so many. And in classic Alice fashion she generously left us all a note. Safe travels, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 一路走好
November 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I am so so sorry that Alice Wong has left. I didn’t know her well, but I knew her for a long time and had many convos - and her words, her advocacy, and her humor meant so much for so many. And in classic Alice fashion she generously left us all a note. Safe travels, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social. 一路走好
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PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING! The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is under attack. UC admin is in the process of gutting the heart of this 41-year-old program, which has had a profound impact on the UC system. There's still time to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Protect the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP)
INDIVIDUAL SIGN-ON LETTER
UC System Provost Katherine Newman has called for the elimination of the PPFP Faculty Hiring Incentive. We say NO! We are unified in our support of PPFP, a 41-year old nation...
docs.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:19 AM
PLEASE CONSIDER SIGNING! The UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is under attack. UC admin is in the process of gutting the heart of this 41-year-old program, which has had a profound impact on the UC system. There's still time to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com).
Register here: t.ly/HT233
Register here: t.ly/HT233
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Nov 20 online: I'm hosting a reading/conversation with my friend Satsuki Ina — psychotherapist, filmmaker, activist, writer. She'll be reading from/talking about her book, The Poet and the Silk Girl: A Memoir of Love, Imprisonment and Protest (published @heydaybooks.com).
Register here: t.ly/HT233
Register here: t.ly/HT233
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I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
The 2025 Alchemy Lecture: Sound—at the Interregnum
YouTube video by York University - Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
m.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I am still vibrating from last night’s Alchemy Lecture. The video is available for 2 weeks. Please join us in this chorus.
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
Sound—at the Interregnum.
Glen Coulthard
Madeleine Thien
Canisia Lubrin
Immanuel Wilkins
Whew. What they did!!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EqpH...
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Registration for UC Irvine Global Asias 2026 is now OPEN! sites.uci.edu/globalasias/.... No fee for non-tenure track participants or UCI community members. For non-UCI tenure-track registrants, there is a sliding scale fee.
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Registration for UC Irvine Global Asias 2026 is now OPEN! sites.uci.edu/globalasias/.... No fee for non-tenure track participants or UCI community members. For non-UCI tenure-track registrants, there is a sliding scale fee.
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Exciting CAALS event! 🎉 Join us Fri, Nov 14, 2:30-3:45pm EST for a talk with Chris A. Eng & Roberta Wolfson on their new books, Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America & Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State! Zoom link: bit.ly/4nFc73u
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Exciting CAALS event! 🎉 Join us Fri, Nov 14, 2:30-3:45pm EST for a talk with Chris A. Eng & Roberta Wolfson on their new books, Extravagant Camp: The Queer Abjection of Asian America & Refiguring Race and Risk: Counternarratives of Care in the US Security State! Zoom link: bit.ly/4nFc73u
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My book, Torn, is available for pre-order 🌪️
If you place an order before Nov 9, you can take advantage of the
@dukepress.bsky.social fall sale (use code FALL25 to get 50% off). Torn drops March 2026!
dukeupress.edu/torn
If you place an order before Nov 9, you can take advantage of the
@dukepress.bsky.social fall sale (use code FALL25 to get 50% off). Torn drops March 2026!
dukeupress.edu/torn
November 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My book, Torn, is available for pre-order 🌪️
If you place an order before Nov 9, you can take advantage of the
@dukepress.bsky.social fall sale (use code FALL25 to get 50% off). Torn drops March 2026!
dukeupress.edu/torn
If you place an order before Nov 9, you can take advantage of the
@dukepress.bsky.social fall sale (use code FALL25 to get 50% off). Torn drops March 2026!
dukeupress.edu/torn
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The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature.
The U.S. has revoked the visa of Nobel winner Wole Soyinka.
The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, according to Al Jazeera. The writer received what he called a “rather c…
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November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature.
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Capitalism in Salem is a horror show—Halloween reading.
From Salem Witchcraft to Stephen King
The Haunting History of Indigenous Land Theft
open.substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Capitalism in Salem is a horror show—Halloween reading.
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At the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, this Sunday Nov 2 at 2PM.
October 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
At the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, this Sunday Nov 2 at 2PM.
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Excited to moderate this screening of two important docs, Cathy Linh Che's WE WERE THE SCENERY, about her parents' experiences being Vietnamese extras in Apocalypse Now--that movie should never be taught w/o Cathy's film--and THIRD ACT, about key director Robert Nakamura.
tinyurl.com/4nekzws8
tinyurl.com/4nekzws8
October 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Excited to moderate this screening of two important docs, Cathy Linh Che's WE WERE THE SCENERY, about her parents' experiences being Vietnamese extras in Apocalypse Now--that movie should never be taught w/o Cathy's film--and THIRD ACT, about key director Robert Nakamura.
tinyurl.com/4nekzws8
tinyurl.com/4nekzws8
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TWO AWARD-WINNING POETS BRING NEW COLLECTIONS EXPLORING DESIRE AND HERITAGE TO PASADENA: Garrett Hongo and Robin Coste Lewis read from new Knopf collections at historic Vroman’s Bookstore
www.pasadenanow.com/weekendr/two...
www.pasadenanow.com/weekendr/two...
October 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
TWO AWARD-WINNING POETS BRING NEW COLLECTIONS EXPLORING DESIRE AND HERITAGE TO PASADENA: Garrett Hongo and Robin Coste Lewis read from new Knopf collections at historic Vroman’s Bookstore
www.pasadenanow.com/weekendr/two...
www.pasadenanow.com/weekendr/two...
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A Q&A with Happyend (2024) director Neo Sora. https://bit.ly/4nUSlkP
Neo Sora: ‘I feel like we might be living in a turning point right now’ - Chicago Reader
Neo Sora, director of Happyend (2024), spoke to the Reader about Japanese history, fascism, and how near the film's “near future” really is.
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October 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A Q&A with Happyend (2024) director Neo Sora. https://bit.ly/4nUSlkP
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Sixth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Christopher T. Fan’s ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY from @columbiaup.bsky.social. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston next week. Please join us!
October 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sixth in the ASAP/16 Book Prize shortlist is Christopher T. Fan’s ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965: TRANSNATIONAL FANTASIES OF ECONOMIC MOBILITY from @columbiaup.bsky.social. The winner of the prize will be announced at our conference in Houston next week. Please join us!
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“‘The works in _Tessaku_ challenge the longstanding and damaging myth that the death of Japanese-language Japanese American literature was inevitable—that assimilation and monolingualism were the only possible fates for later generations of Japanese Americans’”
October 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
“‘The works in _Tessaku_ challenge the longstanding and damaging myth that the death of Japanese-language Japanese American literature was inevitable—that assimilation and monolingualism were the only possible fates for later generations of Japanese Americans’”
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Grateful to Christopher Lee (U. British Columbia) for this comprehensive and judicious review of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, for American Literary History. @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility
Christopher Lee; Christopher T. Fan, Asian American Fiction After 1965: Transnational Fantasies of Economic Mobility, American Literary History, Volume 37,
academic.oup.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Grateful to Christopher Lee (U. British Columbia) for this comprehensive and judicious review of my book, ASIAN AMERICAN FICTION AFTER 1965, for American Literary History. @columbiaup.bsky.social academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
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Big upheaval in Japanese politics. Today (Japan time), after a ninety minute meeting between Saitō, head of Komeito, and Takaichi, the LDP politician who recently won her party’s presidency, Saitō announced an end to their parties’ 26-year-long coalition agreement.
October 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Big upheaval in Japanese politics. Today (Japan time), after a ninety minute meeting between Saitō, head of Komeito, and Takaichi, the LDP politician who recently won her party’s presidency, Saitō announced an end to their parties’ 26-year-long coalition agreement.
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the discussion over whether the Komeito will stay as part of the coalition with the LDP under Takaichi is really interesting in highlighting how the parties are a mishmash of various policies and need serious sorting out if Japan ever hopes to become a two-party system.
October 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
the discussion over whether the Komeito will stay as part of the coalition with the LDP under Takaichi is really interesting in highlighting how the parties are a mishmash of various policies and need serious sorting out if Japan ever hopes to become a two-party system.
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In her new collection ‘Becoming Ghost,’ poet Cathy Linh Che tries to make sense of her family’s history, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film ‘Apocalypse Now.’
Melody S. Gee reviews:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/quiet-set
Melody S. Gee reviews:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/quiet-set
Quiet on Set
In her new collection ‘Becoming Ghost,’ poet Cathy Linh Che tries to make sense of her family's history, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film ‘Apocalypse Now.’
www.commonwealmagazine.org
October 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In her new collection ‘Becoming Ghost,’ poet Cathy Linh Che tries to make sense of her family’s history, the Vietnam War, and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film ‘Apocalypse Now.’
Melody S. Gee reviews:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/quiet-set
Melody S. Gee reviews:
www.commonwealmagazine.org/quiet-set
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From birth moms & other experts, I learned how complicated openness can be—even when it's part of the plan at the start. “We talk about open adoption as if it’s okay for everyone because there are no secrets,” a birth mom & advocate said. “In reality, the hurts of open adoption are just different.”
When Adoption Promises Are Broken
Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.
www.theatlantic.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
From birth moms & other experts, I learned how complicated openness can be—even when it's part of the plan at the start. “We talk about open adoption as if it’s okay for everyone because there are no secrets,” a birth mom & advocate said. “In reality, the hurts of open adoption are just different.”
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聴いた。よい演説だと思いました。
＜第80回 国連総会 #UNGA80 に出席中の石破茂総理大臣による一般討論演説が公開されました👇
gadebate.un.org/en/80/japan
＊オリジナル音声（日本語）は画面右下の設定⚙️から"Interlingua"を選択してください。＞
Japan
His Excellency
Shigeru Ishiba
Prime Minister
23 September 2025
gadebate.un.org/en/80/japan
＜第80回 国連総会 #UNGA80 に出席中の石破茂総理大臣による一般討論演説が公開されました👇
gadebate.un.org/en/80/japan
＊オリジナル音声（日本語）は画面右下の設定⚙️から"Interlingua"を選択してください。＞
Japan
His Excellency
Shigeru Ishiba
Prime Minister
23 September 2025
gadebate.un.org/en/80/japan
Japan
His Excellency Shigeru Ishiba spoke at the General Debate of the 80th Session of the General Assembly
gadebate.un.org
September 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
聴いた。よい演説だと思いました。
＜第80回 国連総会 #UNGA80 に出席中の石破茂総理大臣による一般討論演説が公開されました👇
gadebate.un.org/en/80/japan
＊オリジナル音声（日本語）は画面右下の設定⚙️から"Interlingua"を選択してください。＞
Japan
His Excellency
Shigeru Ishiba
Prime Minister
23 September 2025
gadebate.un.org/en/80/japan
＜第80回 国連総会 #UNGA80 に出席中の石破茂総理大臣による一般討論演説が公開されました👇
gadebate.un.org/en/80/japan
＊オリジナル音声（日本語）は画面右下の設定⚙️から"Interlingua"を選択してください。＞
Japan
His Excellency
Shigeru Ishiba
Prime Minister
23 September 2025
gadebate.un.org/en/80/japan
I am thrilled to be a part of this conversation at UC Berkeley, and discuss Japanese wartime incarceration literature at Tule Lake. To join us on zoom, please register via webpage.
September 26, 2025, 4PM PT
events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/30...
September 26, 2025, 4PM PT
events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/30...
Events at UC Berkeley
events.berkeley.edu
September 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I am thrilled to be a part of this conversation at UC Berkeley, and discuss Japanese wartime incarceration literature at Tule Lake. To join us on zoom, please register via webpage.
September 26, 2025, 4PM PT
events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/30...
September 26, 2025, 4PM PT
events.berkeley.edu/cjs/event/30...
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Please read/consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of the most significant artifact discovered in the WWII Japanese American concentration camps, the Wakasa memorial stone, and its site: t.ly/jh2dE.
I wrote about it here: t.ly/DbxB5
I wrote about it here: t.ly/DbxB5
September 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Please read/consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of the most significant artifact discovered in the WWII Japanese American concentration camps, the Wakasa memorial stone, and its site: t.ly/jh2dE.
I wrote about it here: t.ly/DbxB5
I wrote about it here: t.ly/DbxB5
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"What really kept me strong was my anger."
In his first extended broadcast interview since being released from prison, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier talks about spending five decades behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit.
In his first extended broadcast interview since being released from prison, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier talks about spending five decades behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit.
September 19, 2025 at 1:12 PM
"What really kept me strong was my anger."
In his first extended broadcast interview since being released from prison, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier talks about spending five decades behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit.
In his first extended broadcast interview since being released from prison, Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier talks about spending five decades behind bars for a crime he says he did not commit.
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New York - a major collection of writers are coming together this Saturday September 21 for VOICES FOR GAZA at the Town Hall.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Seema Jilani will all be in conversation with John Freeman, featuring Aasif Mandvi.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Seema Jilani will all be in conversation with John Freeman, featuring Aasif Mandvi.
September 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
New York - a major collection of writers are coming together this Saturday September 21 for VOICES FOR GAZA at the Town Hall.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Seema Jilani will all be in conversation with John Freeman, featuring Aasif Mandvi.
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Mosab Abu Toha, Hala Alyan, Hannah Lillith Assadi and Seema Jilani will all be in conversation with John Freeman, featuring Aasif Mandvi.