Mamiko Suzuki received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She was Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of Utah, and has taught Japanese language at the University of Houston and Hostos Community College, CUNY. She has taught all levels of the Japanese language, with courses covering Japanese conversation, translation, short stories, novels, and films. Her monograph Gendered Power: Educated Women from the Meiji Empress’ Court (University of Michigan Press, 2019) examines the writings and activities of educated women of the Meiji period. She has been awarded the Fulbright IIE grant; a University of Utah Faculty Fellowship (2016); and Northeast Asia Council travel grants for her teaching and research activities, Suzuki also received an AAS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Higher Education Curriculum Development Grant from the Association for Asian Studies with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) program. She continues to explore questions of diversity in the Japanese language and translation. Her areas of interest include modern and contemporary Japanese women’s literature; care in literary analysis; and diversity in the language learning classroom.