Mitsuyo Kido is a Japanese scholar and translator specializing in American literature. She is a professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hiroshima University. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, particularly the American Renaissance, Nathaniel Hawthorne, women’s travel writing, and literary representations of nature and the environment. She has co-edited “Romansu no Rinri to Katari: Ima Hawthorne o Yomu Riyu” and “Tsunagari no Shigaku,” and co-translated Henry David Thoreau’s “Wild Fruits” into Japanese. As a co-editor of “Fukugo Kiki no Jidai ni Yomu Kankyo Bungaku 103-sen,” she examines the relationships among human beings, society, nature, and environmental crises through literature.
