Ina Hein

Ina Hein (* 1968 in Heidelberg ) is a German Japanologist .

Life

From 1988 to 1996 she studied Japanese Studies and English at the University of Trier and the Ôbirin University ( Tôkyô ). In 1998 she completed postgraduate studies at the Tôyô Eiwa Jogakuin Daigaku ( Yokohama ), funded by the DAAD . From 2000 to 2002 she was a scholarship holder in the interdisciplinary DFG graduate college Identity and Difference. Gender construction and interculturality (18th-20th century) at the University of Trier. After receiving his doctorate in 2003 as Dr. phil. (Japanese Studies) in 2003 she was a research assistant in the DFG project The 'Turning Towards Asia' in Literature, Media and Popular Culture in Japan. A factor in the development of an 'Asian identity'? in Trier . From 2003 to 2010 she was a research assistant in Modern Japan at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf . From 2010 to 2012 she taught as a visiting professor for Japanese Studies with a cultural studies focus in Vienna . Since August 2012 she has held the professorship for Japanese Studies with a cultural studies focus at the Institute for East Asian Studies at the University of Vienna .

Her research interests are contemporary Japanese literature, gender relations in Japan, constructions of other Asian countries in Japanese literature, cinema films and television series, and medial and literary representations of Okinawa in contemporary Japan.

Fonts (selection)

• as translator: Amy Yamada : Nights with Spoon. Novel . Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-250-60116-6 .
• Under construction. Gender Relations in the Literature of Popular Contemporary Japanese Women Authors . Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89129-532-8 .
• as editor with Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer: 40 years since reversion. Negotiating the Okinawan difference in Japan today . Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-900362-27-0 .

Web links

• japanologie.univie.ac.at