Patrick Carland-Echavarria received his BA in English from Emmanuel College and MA in Japanese from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research focuses on Japanese queer media, subcultures, and art from a transnational perspective. His dissertation, titled Finding the Rainbow World: Literary Translation and Transnational Queer Cultures in Cold War Japan, examines the role that queer Japanese language translators and queer transnational artistic and literary networks played in the globalization of Japanese literature, theater, and art from the end of World War II to the 1970s. His work has been featured in The Journal of American-East Asian Relations, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, and in edited volumes published by Routledge, Springer, Phaidon, and Bloomsbury. For the academic year 2023-2024, he was a Japan Foundation Japanese Studies PhD Fellow and Visiting Researcher at Waseda University in Tokyo.
MA, Japanese, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019
BA, English, Emmanuel College Boston, 2014
Japanese Film & Literature; Queer Theory; Digital Humanities; Feminism(s); Media Studies; Translation Theory; Postwar Japanese History.
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EALC/GSWS 3559: Gender and Sexuality in Japan (Fall 2022)
- EALC 1351: Modern Japanese Fiction and Film (Spring 2022)
- EALC 0020: Introduction to Chinese Civilization (Fall 2021)
- EALC 0040: Introduction to Japanese Civilization (Spring 2021)
- EALC 1242: Love and Loss in Japanese Literary Traditions (Fall 2020)
Journal Articles
Book Chapters
- "LGBTQ Activism in Contemporary Japan: Prospects and Perspectives." Sustainability, Diversity, and Equality: Key Challenges for Japan, edited by Kimiko Tanaka and Helaine Selin. (Springer Publishing, 2023), pp. 439-454.
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“The Curatorial Seminars.” Arthur Tress And the Japanese Illustrated Book, edited by Julie Davis et al. (Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), pp. 17-18.
Other Publications
- "When 'Homosexuality' Came to Japan." Gay & Lesbian Review, May-June 2025 Issue, pp. 29-31.
- “Who, What, Why: Patrick Carland-Echavarria and queer Americans in post-war Japan.” Penn Today, Kristen de Groot, June 27, 2023
- "Finding the Rainbow World: Queer Translation and Utopian Imaginaries in Postwar Japan." Mid-Atlantic Regional Association of Asian Studies (MARAAS) Annual Conference, October 2022 (Winner, Marlene Mayo Graduate Paper Prize, 2022)
- Review: Kerim Yasar, “Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945,” Mechademia: Second Arc, November 24, 2021.
- “Uta no Shiori Teikoku Ryūkō Kashū,” 歌のしおり帝国流行歌集 (Collection of songs popular in the Empire, 1944) Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, March 2020.
- “Kawamura Bunpō Sansui Gafu 河村文鳳文鳳山水画譜” (Bunpō’s album of landscape paintings), Arthur Tress Collection of Japanese Illustrated Books, Kislak Center, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, March 2020
- "Imagining a Home for Us: Representations of Queer Families in Contemporary Japanese Literature." MA Thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019.
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Association of Asian Studies
Association of Japanese Literary Studies