Education - B.A. English Literature (cum laude); 1986 Japanese Language (cum laude). University of Washington. 1985
- M.A. Modern Japanese Literature. University of Washington. 1993
- Ph.D. Modern Japanese Literature. University of Washington. 1997
Research & Teaching Fields - Modern Japanese literature, Okinawan fiction, Japanese language
Selected Publications -
"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 , edited by Kuroko 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 , edited by Michael
Molasky and Steven Rabson. Honolulu : University
of Hawai'i Press, 2000, pp. 58-71.
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"Kôno Taeko." In Modern Japanese Authors ,
edited by 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 , edited
by Philip Gabriel and Stephen Snyder. Honolulu
: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999, pp.
58-88.
Current Research Projects - Writing
Okinawa: Narrative Acts of Resistance and Identity
in Modern Okinawan Fiction (Book manuscript)
| | Courses Taught - Japan
321-323 (Survey of Japanese Literature in Translation)
- Japan
431-433 (Readings in Modern Japanese Literature)
- Asian
498 (Representations of Ethnic Minorities in Japanese
Literature)
- Japan 531-533 (Advanced Readings in Modern Japanese
Literature)
- Japan
590 (Special Topics)
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