Education
- B.A. History. University
of Texas - Austin. 1990
- M.A. Modern Japanese Literature. Columbia University.
1996
- Ph.D. 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
- "Accounting for Taste: The Creation of
the Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for Literature," Harvard
Journal of Asiatic Studies 64:2 (December 2004).
- "The Industrialization of Literary Publishing
in Japan," forthcoming in Wilt Idema, ed. Books
in Numbers.
- "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" forthcoming in David McCann, ed. The
Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry (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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