Portrait of Maya Kanazawa

Maya Kanazawa

Pro Tem Instructor
English
maya@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0368
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:30-3 and by appointment. Please email me to indicate preference for in-person or on Zoom. Email: maya@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: composition pedagogy, translation studies, critical disability studies, gift ecologies

Education

B.A. in Philosophy, Yale University
Ph.D. In Comparative Literature, University  of Oregon

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Publications

Anthologized Poem
•    “The Water Birth,” Montreal International Poetry Prize Anthology, McGill University, 2025

Libretto 
•    Collaborated with composer Hippocrates Cheng on the libretto for the chamber opera All of Us, which debuted at the Center for the Performing Arts in Carmel, Indiana, July 2024. Performanced at Atchley Opera, Amplify! Festival in Chicago, and Northern Illinois University in 2026.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Articles
•    “On the Borders of Free Verse: Translating Varlam Shalamov's Aesopian Texts, Comparative Literature, 71:2, June 2019
•    “Why Does the Rusalka Have to Die? The Call of the Other in Zinaida Gippius’s Sacred Blood,” Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica 6, September 2014
 

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Teaching

Upper-division Course:

  • COLT 360 Engendering the Absurd

Lower-division Courses:

  • COLT 211 Politics of Burial
  • COLT 212 Mermaid Cinema
  • WR 121z College Composition I
  • WR 122z College Composition II

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