Marina Nascimento studies print media in modern Japan, focusing on magazines targeted to girls and women. Her research interests involve the role of prewar media in disseminating race and gender policies, education, and colonial and imperialist discourse, as well as female visual representation in magazines and women’s non-fictional writing. She received a BA in Japanese Language and Literature from and a MA in Japanese Language, Literature, and Culture from Sao Paulo University, in Brazil, and another MA in Innovative Japanese Studies from Tohoku University in Japan. She has worked as a research assistant in the Japanese Studies Center Library of Sao Paulo University and in the Tohoku University Kawauchi Main Library, as well as a public elementary school teacher for Brazilian immigrant children in Japan.
BA, Japanese Language and Literature, São Paulo University
MA, Japanese Language, Literature, and Culture, São Paulo University
MA, Innovative Japanese Studies, Tohoku University
Japanese Literature; Japanese Pop Culture; Feminism(s); Media Studies; Modern Japanese History
Melo, Marina Teresinha Rosa de, e Madalena Natsuko Hashimoto Cordaro. 2016. “As Reminiscências Da Guerra No Mangá E No Animê”. Anagrama 10 (2).
De Melo Do Nascimento, Marina Teresinha. 2020. “Women’s Liberation in Meiji Japan: Ruptures in Cultural Conceptions of Female Education, Social Roles, and Political Rights”. Intercultural Relations4 (2(8):151-75.