Tomoko Aoyama is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland. Her research interests include parody, humour, and intertextuality in modern and contemporary Japanese literature and culture. She is the author of Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature (2008), co-editor of Girl Reading Girl in Japan (2010) and Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan (2015), and co-translator of two novels of Kanai Mieko, Indian Summer and Oh, Tama!. Her most recent publications include “Sweet Bean Paste and Excrement: Food, Humor, and Gender in Osaki Midori’s Writings” in Gastro-Modernism: Food, Literature, Culture (ed. Derek Gladwin, Clemson UP, 2019).