:Mari Yoshihara
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{{nihongo|Mari Yoshihara|吉原真里|Yoshihara Mari|born May 28, 1968}} is an American academic. She is a professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and specializes in American cultural history and US-Asian relations. She is also an amateur pianist.
Biography
Yoshihara was born in New York City and grew up in Tokyo.{{cite news |title=About Mari Yoshihara |url=http://www.cte.hawaii.edu/affiliatefac/MYoshihara.html |access-date=December 31, 2018 |publisher=University of Hawaii}} She attended high school in Yokohama and graduated from the University of Tokyo before earning a master's degree and doctorate from Brown University.{{cite web |title=1997 - Mari Yoshihara - American Civilization, PhD |url=https://www.brown.edu/academics/studying-asian-america/graduate-0 |website=Brown University |access-date=December 31, 2018}} Yoshihara has taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa since 1997 and served as chief editor of the journal American Quarterly since 2014.{{cite web |url=https://www.americanquarterly.org/about/people.html |title=People- Editor Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |website=American Quarterly |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |access-date=December 31, 2018}}
She played the piano since the age of three,{{cite news |last1=Ayoub |first1=Nina C. |title=Musicians From a Different Shore: Asians and Asian Americans in Classical Music |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Musicians-From-a-Different/14259 |access-date=January 1, 2019 |work=Chronicle of Higher Education |date=November 9, 2007}} but took a break from playing while in graduate school. As an adult, she has entered competitions like the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as an amateur, and won in the 2014 Aloha International Piano Festival's amateur division.{{Cite web |url=https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2016/05/13/mari-yoshihara-competes-in-international-amateur-piano-competition/ |title=Mari Yoshihara competes in international amateur piano competition |website=University of Hawaiʻi System News |access-date=2018-12-31}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.cliburn.org/?performer=mari-yoshihara |title=Mari Yoshihara – The Cliburn |access-date=2018-12-31}}
Selected bibliography
- {{Cite book |title=Embracing the East : white women and American orientalism |last=Yoshihara |first=Mari |date=2003 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780198033233 |location=Oxford |oclc=57365434}}
- {{Cite book |title=Musicians from a different shore : Asians and Asian Americans in classical music |last=Yoshihara |first=Mari |publisher=Temple University Press |year=2007 |isbn=9781592133345 |location=Philadelphia |oclc=233003149}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.mariyoshihara.com/ mariyoshihara.com - Yoshihara's personal website]
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Category:American academic journal editors
Category:Writers from New York City
Category:University of Tokyo alumni
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty
Category:American academics of Japanese descent