Andrea Mendoza

Andrea Mendoza is Associate Professor in Japanese and Comparative Literatures. She received her PhD from Cornell University. Her research and teaching areas combine the study of 20th and 21st century Japanese and Latin American literary and visual texts; intellectual history and philosophy; critical gender studies; and critical epistemologies on race and colonialism. Professor Mendoza’s research has been supported by the Hellman Foundation, the Faculty Career Development Program, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (previously the Woodrow Wilson Foundation), the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, and the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program.

Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French

Books

• Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth-Century Japan and Mexico (Duke University Press, 2026)

Articles & Book Chapters

• "Transpacific Critique and the Extimacies of Settler Coloniality, Race, and Asia-Latin America." Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 33.3 (2024): 483-493.
• “Confronting the ‘Ends’ of Area: Murmurs Towards a Transpacific Phenomenology.” East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies, edited by Chiara Olivieri and Jordi Serrano-Muñoz. Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia Book Series. Palgrave Macmillan, 2022: 19-41.
• “Nonencounters ‘In the Wake’: Re-Inscriptions of a Black Transpacific in Tanin no kao and La Muerte de Artemio Cruz.” Japan Forum 35(3) (2021): 249–270
• “Non-Encounter as Relation: Cannibals and Poison Women in the Consumption of Difference.” Andrea Bachner and Pedro Erber, ed. Between Asia and Latin America, special issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias 3, no. 2 (2017): 118-143.

• Ph.D. in Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture (Japan Studies), Cornell University, 2019
• B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Connecticut College, 2013