Tricia Abigail Santos Fermin

Main subjects

Topics in Cross-cultural Communication, Introduction to Sociology, English for Specific Purposes A, English for Advanced Studies A, English for Advanced Studies C & D (International Gender Studies)

Research Themes and Keywords

Gender, Sexuality, Harassment, Foreign workers in Japan, Japanese popular culture in Southeast Asia

Final academic background/degree

Osaka University Graduate School of Human Research, Department of Social and Environmental Studies / Doctor of Human Sciences

Affiliated academic society

International Sociological Association, Japanese Studies Conference in Southeast Asia, Association for Asian Studies

Major achievements

Fermin, TAS & Zulueta, JO (2023). The impact of Japanese schools' policy responses to COVID-19 on Filipino women assistant language teachers. In M. Seedat-Khan & JO Zulueta (Eds.) Women and COVID-19: A clinical and applied sociological focus on family, work, and community (pp. 174-188). Routledge.
Fermín, Tricia, Abigail, Santos (2022). "Comics and Nation-Building in Southeast Asia." In Masahiro Koyama, Hiroaki Tamagawa, and Ryuta Koike (eds.), *13 Lectures on Manga Exploration* (pp. 379-409). Suiseisha.
Fermin, TAS (2023). BL coupling in a different light: Filipino fans envisioning an alternative model of intimacy. In J. Welker (Ed.) Queer transfigurations: boys love media in Asia (pp. 153-166). University of Hawai'I Press.
Fermín, Tricia, Abigail, Santos (2022). "Reframing School Sexual Harassment with the Concept of Intersectionality: A Case Study of Student Harassment Targeting an ALT in a Middle School," in Kazue Muta (ed.), *Challenges in Feminist and Gender Research: Concepts of Alternative Societies* (pp. 130-143). Shokado Shoten.
Fermin, TAS (2015). Male homoerotic fiction and women's sexual subjectivities: Yaoi and BL fans in Indonesia and the Philppines. In K. Phillips (Ed.) Women and erotic fiction : critical essays on genres, markets and readers (pp. 169-186). McFarland.

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Social contribution activities

Instructor for cultural immersion programs for international students, such as the Asia Summer Program, Spelman College Summer Program, and Japan-Canada Academic Consortium; Instructor for "Tsukumo Time" at Chiba Prefectural Chiba High School.