Cindi Textor, Department of World Languages and Cultures – Tanner Humanities Center Skip to content About About the Center Our Team Advisory Boards Support the Center Join our mailing list News and Events News Center Events National Theatre Live Podcast: The Virtual Jewel Box Tanner Book Club How we watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Fellowships, research, and professional development Fellowships Current Fellows and Fellowship Events Tanner Labs Research Interest Groups Gateway to Learning Workshops Mormon Studies (mormon.utah.edu) Search Site Powered by the University of Utah Powered by Search Campus Tanner Humanities Center Home Event Cindi Textor, Department of World Languages and Cultures Cindi Textor, Department of World Languages and Cultures Date & Time: Thursday, November 13, 2025 12:00pm Location: Jewel Box, Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building Cindi Textor, Associate Professor in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Utah, will give a public talk drawing from her research on transnational Japan. Her scholarship examines Japan not as an isolated culture, but as a site where ideas and empires meet, focusing especially on the enduring legacies of Japanese imperialism and its intersections with American and other western empires. Her first book, Intersectional Incoherence: Zainichi Literature and the Ethics of Illegibility (University of California Press, 2024), analyzes moments of incoherence and unintelligibility in the work of Koreans in Japan, challenging conventional approaches to literary representation. She is now at work on a second book that explores how modern Japan has engaged with and reconfigured white supremacist ideology, often through processes of translation. This new project argues that, even in a population largely considered non-white, white supremacy can operate and thrive when whiteness is ambiguous or provisional. For updates and more events, join our mailing list. The Obert C. and Grace A. Tanner Humanities Center at the University of Utah supports academic research, public engagement, and educational programming in the humanities. Views expressed in events and programming do not represent the official views of the Center or University. Sponsors: Salt Lake County Zoo, Arts & Parks Get Tickets Map Similar Events Cory Doctorow, author of “Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It” Tanner Talks and Conversations Wednesday, February 18, 2026 7:00pm Learn More Joseph R. Metz, “The Feeling of the Form: Empathy and Aesthetics from Büchner to Rilke” Tanner Talks and Conversations Tuesday, March 31, 2026 12:00pm Learn More C. Thi Nguyen, “The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game” Tanner Talks and Conversations Wednesday, February 4, 2026 3:00pm Learn More PREVIOUS POST NEXT POST About About the Center Our Team Advisory Boards Support the Center Join our mailing list Fellowships, research, and professional development Fellowships Current Fellows and Fellowship Events Tanner Labs Research Interest Groups Gateway to Learning Workshops Mormon Studies (mormon.utah.edu) Tanner Humanities Center Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building 215 S Central Campus Dr Rm 110 Salt Lake City UT 84112 801-581-7989 News and Events News Center Events National Theatre Live Podcast: The Virtual Jewel Box Tanner Book Club How we watch The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Centers and Programs in Humanities American West Center Asia Center Environmental Humanities International Studies Latin American Studies Middle East Center Mormon Studies Peace and Conflict Studies Second Language Teaching and Research Center Taft-Nicholson Environmental Humanities Education Center © 2026 THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Nondiscrimination & Accessibility Disclaimer Privacy About the U Media Contacts