Janaina Medeiros
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Sade Olutola
One Nice Bug Per Day
we're not kids anymore.
Love Begins
Cosimo Galluzzi
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
Three Goblin Art
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@sunnie-studies
サニーと申します。何ヶ月前に「＠nihongo-de-asobo」といました。誤ってそのブログを消してしまいました。新しいブログは「@sunnie-studies」です。このブログで大学院の日本文学の研究について勉強日記です。日本語の勉強は中心じゃないですが、文学とメヂアです。2年前JLPTのN3を受かりました。
hi i'm sunnie! a few months ago i had a blog called @/nihongo-de-asobo but i accidentally deleted it. my new blog is @sunnie-studies. this blog is my study diary about my japanese literature grad program. my focus is not studying japanese language but on literature and media. two years ago i passed the jlpt n3.
♡ ︵ may 28, 2026˚₊· ₊˚ˑ༄
lately i've been loving tomodachi life on my 2ds !! remember that you deserve moments of joy during even the most busiest of times !
Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through
100 open access books on JSTOR
African American Studies
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, Revised and Updated Edition
Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies: Theories and Transgressions
J. A. Rogers: Selected Writings
The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny
African Studies
Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa
Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life
American Indian Studies
Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History
The Urgency of Indigenous Values
Anthropology
Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement
Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century: Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico's Tropical Rainforest
Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War
Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice
Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America
Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War over Land
Voices of Indigenuity
Archaeology
Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology
New Deal Archaeology in the West
The Cretan Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, volume III: Metal Objects from Gournia
Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History
Architecture
Waterhouses: Landscapes, Housing, and the Making of Modern Lagos
Asian Studies
Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985
Communication Studies
Covid and…: How to Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic
Hillary Clinton's Career in Speeches: The Promises and Perils of Women's Rhetorical Adaptivity
Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance
Migrant World Making
Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting
Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now
Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907
Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives
Cultural Studies
Cultural History of British Alternative Cabaret (1979-1991)
Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel
Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis
Toward a Gameic World
Development Studies
Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar
Urban Indigeneities: Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
Education
Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland
The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education
Environmental Studies
Ecologies of Imperialism
Unsettling Agribusiness: Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil
Feminist & Women's Studies
Reclaiming Time: The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities
Recovering Women’s Past: New Epistemologies, New Ventures
Film Studies
Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema
Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream
The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century
Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity
Food Studies
The Visible Hands That Feed: Responsibility and Growth in the Food Sector
Gender Studies
Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939
Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1918
History
Captivity's Collections: Natural History and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade
Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization
Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World: 1685-1896
Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi
Language & Literature
Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium
Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History
Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism
Faking It: Victorian Documentary Novels
Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China
The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond
Understanding Agatha Christie
Latin American Studies
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
Law
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America
Linguistics
Cantonese Since the Nineteenth Century
Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in the Italian Publishing Field
Middle East Studies
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces
Music
Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism
Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson
Lieder in America: On Stages and In Parlors
On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
Peace & Conflict Studies
Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War
The Coup and the Palm Trees: Agrarian Conflict and Political Power in Honduras
The End of the Future: Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia
Uniting Against the Reich: The American Air War in Europe
Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam
Performing Arts
Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico's War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide
Staging Existence: Chekhov's Tetralogy
Philosophy
Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges
Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious: Vol. 2 The Affective Hypothesis
Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious: vol. 1, The Catharsis Hypothesis
Political Science
Beyond Othering: A Gandhian Approach to Conflict Resolution in India and Pakistan
Local government and democracy in the United Kingdom
Paradoxes of Emancipation: Radical Imagination and Space in Neoliberal Greece
The Cost of Voting in the American States
The New Star Chamber and Other Essays: Annotated Edition
Population Studies
Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century
Psychology
Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe
Public Health
Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and Healing in New York City, 1845–1870
Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911–2011
Religion
Christan Colleges and Universities: An Empirical Guide
From Jesus to J-Setting: Religious and Sexual Fluidity among Young Black People
The Hispanic Faculty Experience: Opportunities for Growth and Retention in Christian Colleges and Universities
Science & Technology Studies
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City
Sociology
Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence
As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity
Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa
Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana
Research as More Than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies
The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line
Technology
Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the role of Information Communication Technologies
Urban Studies
Living Politics in the City: Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space
FYI, all of these books were made open access as part of our Path to Open program, where included books are set to become open access three years after their publication date.
Many of the above books can be downloaded as PDFs in full!
01-15.05.2026
i was awarding a pretty substantial scholarship offer to do my phd!!! it’s a huge relief. trying to allow myself to celebrate while also grinding through the final stages of my thesis. my supervisor has finally given me feedback (another relief). also presented on a topic that is completely outside of my specialization and the reception was pretty positive. i’m tentatively hoping to get an article out of it.
i can't believe i didn't watch comprehensible input/listening videos on YouTube for 95% of my Japanese studies. Not sure if they didn't exist back then or if my algorithm just didn't recommend them until recently. But they're such a rich resource.
If you're learning Japanese and want stuff to listen to and shadow with, here are some recs:
This guy ^ has 80 videos of N4 listening practice on Patreon. They're $80 until April 9, and if you're around N4 and can afford it, it looks worth it imo. I just got it for my student to practice.
So many of the videos are travel vlogs or discussions about Japanese culture and language. They help you learn while also preparing you to enjoy a trip or move to Japan.
Hugely helpful!
26.04.26-01.05.26
⏱️: 27h 25m
i keep forgetting to post the daily updates that were supposed to keep me accountable T_T it’s been very busy recently so i’ll be kind to myself. i finally made a breakthrough on finding a primary source document that the secondary sources i was working with cited improperly! now it’s just about waiting for an archivist to get back to me.
someone at work brought in this really nice tea that i just can’t get enough of.
26.04.26. getting very close to the deadline now…and it’s forcing me to do things as evil as writing on a sunday! usually i’m quite strict with giving myself weekends, but sometimes it can’t be helped. the weather has been so warm though, and i made a lovely spread for breakfast to keep morale high☀️
23.04.26
⏱️: 7h 20m
a very productive day which i really needed after realizing there was an area of research i’d completely overlooked for my thesis. i’m well on my way now, so i’m feeling tentatively optimistic.
it feels so evil that you can't still access your university online library after you graduate *remembers my principles* it feels so evil that everyone can't access that stuff all the time
made you some graphics to help you remember
16.04.26
⏱️: 3h 50m
my supervisor helped me access a digital archive i was not aware of, and i’ve been able to solve a problem with one of my appendices that has been worrying me for weeks. trying to remind myself to still get fresh air and sunshine before it becomes too unbearable to be outside.
Okamoto Kiichi Children's songbook cover illustration, "Moon on the Fifteenth Night" 1921
13.04.26
⏱️: 2h 50m
i forgot how busy campus gets once all the classes are back in session. i don’t know what i would do without the graduate study rooms.
hey (with the intention of making you go to the bookstore with me)
Hii!! I love your postings and what you do!!
I started recently reading japanese literature, I just read two books of Osamu Dazai and I would like to know if you have some books recommendations???
Thank you and have a good day!!
Hi! thank you so much for dropping by <3
i think any recommendation is going to really depend on what you liked about dazai’s works.
Sakaguchi Ango (坂口安吾) was a contemporary of Dazai and the two of them tend to get lumped into the buraiha (‘decadent’) school of literature together. Sakaguchi also writes on postwar identity, what it means to be human, and nihilism.
“The Idiot” is in Modern Japanese Stories (Tuttle) translated by George Saito
“In the Forrest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom” is in The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories (Oxford University Press) translated by Jay Rubin
Several of his critical essays are in Literary Mischief: Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and War, translated by James Dorsey and Douglas Slaymaker
If you like surreal, almost postmodern reflections on contemporary life, then you might like Abe Kobo (安部工房). His works really engage with existential philosophy.
The Woman in the Dunes was translated by Dale E. Saunders
The Face of Another is another representative book translated by Saunders
I’m also going to suggest Kono Taeko (河野多恵子) for her short stories exploring the human psyche and taboos.
Toddler Hunting & Other Stories translated by Lucy North and Lucy Lower
Hopefully one of these suggestions is what you were looking for!
Hi! I’m a Japanese grad student who majors in a foreign language and the literature written in it. I really enjoy your blog, looking at a person who does the same kind of thing but from the “opposite” side. Take care, I hope you’re doing well :)
hello anon! thank you so much for dropping by, wishing you all the best with your studies <3
