Saori Mita (三田 紗央里)

Thesis title: Queer Spies in British Cold War Culture: Literature, Film, Theatre and Television

Background

Saori Mita received her undergraduate degree in French literature from Waseda University, Tokyo, and her master's degree in comparative literature from the University of Tokyo. After completing her PhD coursework at the latter, she has come to Edinburgh to write her PhD thesis on espionage literature, film, and television in terms of the representation of male homosexuality.

Undergraduate teaching

Tutorial: Introduction to European Cinema

Current research interests

Adaptation Studies, Queer Theory, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities

"Queer spies in British Cold War culture: literature, film, theatre and television." PhD diss. University of Edinburgh, 2022. https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/38620

“Homophobia and Repression: The Representation of Lie and Truth in Xavier Dolan’s Tom at the Farm”, Eureka 52, no. 4 (2020):163-170. (In Japanese) (Published)

"Double Identities: Male Homosexuality and Espionage in the 20th century Britain" Renyxa 9 (2019): 113-128. (in Japanese) (Published)

"Queer Spies: Adaptation of the Tailor of Panama and Our Man in Havana" Renyxa 8 (2018): 139-152. (peer-reviewed) (Published)

"Soviet Spies in Britain : the Representation of Moles from the 1970s to the Present through the Visual Adaptations of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" Renyxa 6 (2016): 39-52. (Published)

"Consumption, Gaze and Desire : Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (2013)", Renyxa 5 (2014) : 118-128. (Published)

“Transitions of Marilyn Monroe's Image: from the Prince and the Showgirl to My Week with Marilyn”, Studies in Adaptations UT 3 (2012): 79-88 . (in Japanese) (Published)

“Gender and Ethnicity in Popular Film: Alfie in 1966 and in 2004”, Studies in Adaptations UT 2 (2011): 21-28. (in Japanese) (Published)

“The Hours and Mrs Dalloway from the Perspective of Queer Studies”, Studies in Adaptations UT 1 (2011): 15-20. (in Japanese) (Published)