Małgorzata (Gosia) K. Citko-DuPlantis

Małgorzata (Gosia) K. Citko-DuPlantis is a scholar of premodern Japanese literature and culture. Arguing against closed systems of knowledge and interested in pioneering research on understudied subjects, she has published academic articles on the reception history of "Man'yōshū" (Collection of Ten Thousand Leaves, 759–785), the oldest extant collection of Japanese poetry, and medieval waka (Japanese court poetry). Originally from Poland, after graduating from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, she started her career at Florida State University as Dean's Post-Doctoral Fellow in Japanese Studies and joined the Department of World Languages and Cultures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2022. She teaches a variety of courses focusing on bridging premodern and modern Japanese intellectual history. Her newest research interests include the image of Japanese classical heroes in popular media, especially video games.