Education
- BA History. University
of Texas - Austin, 1990.
- MA Modern Japanese Literature. Columbia University,
1996.
- PhD Modern Japanese Literature. Harvard University,
2002.
Research and Teaching Fields
- Modern Japanese Literature
Current Research Projects
- The formation and exercise of authority in
the Tokyo publishing industry and the discursive
sphere of literary debate throughout prewar Japan.
- The dissemination of Japanese literary texts
from the Edo period through World War II.
Selected Publications
- Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
- "The Industrialization of Literary Publishing
in Japan." In Books
in Numbers, ed. Idema Wilt. Boston: Harvard Yenching Library, Harvard University, 2007.
- "Accounting for Taste: The Creation of
the Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for Literature," Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies 64:2 (December 2004).
- "Marketing Japanese Classics in its 1930s
Colonies." Books and Empire, a special issue of the Bibliographical
Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 28:1/2 (2004).
- "The Japanese poetry of Yi Sang; A Collection
of Poems." In The
Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry, ed. David McCann. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
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Courses Taught
- JAPAN 322
- JAPAN 323
- JAPAN 431
- JAPAN 432
- JAPAN 433
- JAPAN 460
- JAPAN 531
- JAPAN 532
- JAPAN 533
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