Fusako Innami
fusakoin.bsky.social
Fusako Innami
@fusakoin.bsky.social
Scholar, modern Japanese literature and culture / performance studies / visual culture. Dance reviewer / practitioner. Faculty member, Durham University / Fulbright scholar, UC Berkeley. Author, https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/Touching-the-Unreachable3
Fusako Innami has been named runner-up for the British Comparative Literature Association's inaugural First Book Prize - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Fusako Innami runner up BCLA first book prize - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
September 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Very happy to share this great news that my first monograph, Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan (Michigan, 2021), is now Open Access, and is free to read on Fulcrum platform here:
www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

拙著がオープンアクセスとなりミシガン大学出版局のウェブサイトから無料で読めるようになりました!
Touching the Unreachable: Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan
Fusako Innami offers the first comprehensive study of touch and skinship—relationality with the other through the skin—in modern Japanese writing. The concept of the unreachable—that is, the lack of c...
www.fulcrum.org
April 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Book sale - the University of Michigan Press/Center for Japanese Studies - incl. my book Touching the Unreachable:
"Visit our website, press.umich.edu, and search for 'Center for Japanese Studies' titles to find wonderful books to add to your own collections. Use the promo code CJS" until Apr 1.
University of Michigan Press
press.umich.edu
March 17, 2025 at 5:44 AM
My first post here.
Very grateful for the opportunity to give a talk yesterday at the Dep. of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley. Much appreciated for insightful questions and positive atmosphere!

events.berkeley.edu/tdps/event/2...
Fusako Innami | Dancing Traces: Performance, Topography, Gestural Writing
In this presentation, Dr. Fusako Innami (Durham University) focuses on the concept of “dancing trace”—a manner of dance notation through foot...
events.berkeley.edu
February 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM