Madoka Kishi
Professional in Residence, Department of English
Ph.D., Louisiana State University
Biography
Madoka Kishi is a Professional in Residence in English and an affiliate of both the Women’s, Gender, and Sexual Studies and the Asian Studies Program at LSU. She works in the fields of North American literary and cultural studies, queer studies, Asian and Asian American studies, and the history of race. She is the author of The Suicidal State: Race Suicide, Biopolitics, and the Sexuality of Population (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2024). She has also translated Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Touching Feeling (Takanashi-shobo, 2022) and co-translated Judith Butler’s Parting Ways (Seido-sha, 2019) into Japanese and is currently co-translating Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism for Kadensha (forthcoming, 2024).