Education
- BA English Literature (cum laude), University of Washington, 1986.
- BA Japanese Language (cum laude). University of Washington, 1985.
- MA Modern Japanese Literature. University of Washington, 1993.
- PhD Modern Japanese Literature. University of Washington, 1997.
Research & Teaching Fields - Modern Japanese literature, Okinawan fiction, Japanese language
Selected Publications - Writing Okinawa:
Narrative Acts of Identity and Resistance.
London: Routledge, 2008.
- "Plain Water with a Twist of Lime(stone): Magical Realism
in Medoruma Shun." Proceedings of the Midwest Association
for Japanese Literary Studies: Japanese Poeticity and
Narrativity Revisited, vol. 9 (Summer 2003).
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"Views of Ôshiro Tatsuhiro by an American Scholar." In Ôshiro
Tatsuhiro arubamu, ed. Kuoko Kazuo.
Osaka: Bensei Shuppan, March 2003.
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"Officer Ukuma." Translation of Ikemiyagi Sekihô, Ukuma
junsa. In Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese
Literature from Okinawa, ed. Michael Molasky Steven Rabson. Honolulu: University
of Hawai'i Press, 2000, 58-71.
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"Kôno Taeko." In Modern Japanese Authors, ed. Jay Rubin. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons (2000): pp.169-184.
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"Temporal Discontinuity in the Atomic Bomb Fiction of
Hayashi Kyôko." In Ôe and Beyond:
Fiction in Contemporary Japan, ed. Philip Gabriel and Stephen Snyder. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999,
58-88.
Current Research Projects
- “Off-Base: The Rhetoric of Peace in Contemporary Okinawan Literature” (book manuscript).
- Double-Exposure: An Anthology of Japanese Fiction and Poetry from Okinawa, co-edited with Steve Rabson.
| | Courses Taught - ASIAN
498 Representations of Ethnic Minorities in Japanese
Literature
- JAPAN
321-323 Survey of Japanese Literature in Translation
- JAPAN
431-433 Readings in Modern Japanese Literature
- JAPAN 531-533 Advanced Readings in Modern Japanese
Literature
- JAPAN
590 Special Topics
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