Mira Shimabukuro (she/they)
Preferred name: Dr. Shimabukuro
Teaching Professor
Education
BA, Liberal Studies, The Evergreen State College
MFA, Creative Writing, University of Washington
PhD, Composition and Rhetoric, University of Wisconsin Madison
Courses
- BWRIT 134 Composition
- BCORE 104: Exploring Language and Identity
- BCORE 117: The Word and the World
- BIS 290 Interdisciplinary Writing Seminar: Asian American Rhetorics
- BIS 290 Interdisciplinary Writing Seminar: Writing for Social Justice
- BIS 238 Language, Culture, Identity, and Power
- BISAES 364 Public Memory and Dissent in American Culture
- BIS 490 Advanced Seminar: Rhetorics of Redress
- BISAES 464 Advanced Seminar in American and Ethnic Studies: Japanese American Rhetorics of Redress
Teaching Interests
- Language and Identity
- Japanese American Incarceration Studies
- Writing, Rhetoric and Social Justice
- Cultural Rhetorics
- Socio-cultural approaches to Literacy
- Asian American Rhetorics
Research and Scholarship Interests
- Language and Identity
- Japanese American Incarceration Studies
- Writing, Rhetoric and Social Justice
- Cultural Rhetorics
- Socio-cultural approaches to Literacy
- Asian American Rhetorics
Creative Interests
Narrative poetry; Multi-genre writing; Socially-engaged writing
- “’Me Inwardly Before I Dared’: Private Writing, The Legacy of “Internment” and the Rhetorics of Gaman,” Towards Critical, Historical and Transnational Dialogues on Japanese “Model” Education lecture series. Global Education Office, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Japan. July 2020.
- To Redress and Serve: Relocating Authority in Academic Service and Community Work. Graduate Student Colloquium. University of Wisconsin Madison. March 2018.
- “Writing, Redress and Social Justice.” Book discussion for Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration, in conversation with Robert Shimabukuro, author of Born in Seattle: The Struggle for Japanese American Redress, Elliot Bay Bookstore. Seattle, Washington. February 2017.
- “Regarded as Weak, Nikkei Women Write to Relocate Authority during World War II.” Invited chapter. Japanese American Women Speak. Los Angeles, CA. Forthcoming.
- “On Shima, from a shima: Flash Reviews of sho yamagushiku’s simmering spiral of decolonial Okinawan diasporic visual poetry,” The International Examiner, 5 June 2025. Web.
- “A Just Memory of Unintelligible Life: Speak, Okinawa”, The International Examiner, 21 April 2021. Web.
When Five Seconds is a Fence, University of Colorado Press and Utah State University press website. Guest Blog Post. 26 April 2016.
Relocating Authority: Japanese Americans Writing to Redress Mass Incarceration, Utah State University Press/University Press of Colorado, 2015. - “Me Inwardly Before I Dared: Japanese Americans Writing to Gaman.” College English. Vol. 73, No. 6. July 2011.
- “Relocating Authority: Co-Author(iz)ing a Japanese American Resistant Ethos Under Mass Incarceration,” Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric. LuMing Mao and Morris Young, eds. Utah State University Press: Logan, UT. 2008. Recipient of an Honorable Mention for the 2008 Mina Shaughnessy Award.
- Present Tense: Writing and Art By Young Women, (co-edited with other members of the Young Women’s Editorial Collective: Amy Agnello, Maria Braganza, Sonia Gomez, Laura MacFarland, Zola Mumford, Micki Reaman, Teri Mae Rutledge, and Megan Smith), CALYX Press: Corvallis, 1996.
- “After the Separation,” Fierce Brightness: 25 Years of Women’s Poetry. Margarita Donnelly, Beverly McFarland and Micki Reaman, eds. Calyx Press: Corvallis, 2002.
- “Sockeye and Searching,” Bamboo Ridge Journal. Number 27. Spring 2000.
- “Dandelions and Seaweed,” Intersecting Circles: Writings by Hapa Women. Marie Hara and Nora Cobb, eds. Bamboo Ridge Press: Honolulu, 2000.
- “Picture,” CALYX Journal. Vol. 18, No. 1. Summer 1998.