“Flower Tribes and Female Desire: Complicating Early Female Consumption of Male Homosexuality in Shōjo Manga.”

Forthcoming, 2011. “Flower Tribes and Female Desire: Complicating Early Female Consumption of Male Homosexuality in Shōjo Manga.” Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga and the Graphic Arts 6.

"From The Cherry Orchard to Sakura no sono: Translated Texts and the Transfiguration of Gender and Sexuality in Shōjo Manga."

2009.  Invited chapter in Girl Reading Girl in Japan, ed. Tomoko Aoyama and Barbara Hartley. London: Routledge. 160-73.

"Lilies of the Margin: Beautiful Boys and Lesbian Identities."

2008.  Invited chapter in AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality in the Asia-Pacific, eds. Fran Martin et al. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. 46-66.

"Introduction: Of Queer Import(s): Sexualities, Genders and Rights in Asia."

James Welker and Lucetta Kam. 2006. Intersections: Gender, History and Culture in the Asian Context 14 (November).

"Beautiful, Borrowed, and Bent: Boys' Love as Girls' Love in Shōjo Manga."

2006. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31:3 (Spring): 841-70.

Awarded 2006 Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in lesbian, gay, and queer studies by the GL/Q Caucus of the MLA

"Drawing Out Lesbians: Blurred Representations of Lesbian Desire in Shōjo Manga."

2006.  Lesbian Voices, Canada and the World, ed. Subhash Chandra, New Delhi: Allied Publishers. 156-84

"From the Well of Loneliness to the akarui rezubian: Western Translations and Japanese Lesbian Identities."

Beverley Curran and James Welker. 2005. Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan, eds. Mark McLelland and Romit Dasgupta. London: Routledge. 65-80.

"Telling Her Story: Narrating a Japanese Lesbian Community."

2004. Japanstudien: Jahrbuch des Deutschen Instituts für Japanstudien 16: 119-144.