Faculty of Liberal Arts, Department of Liberal Arts
Job title
Professor
Degree
B.A.(University of Cornell), M.A.(University of Yale), Ph.D.(University of Yale)
Research funding number
90255208
J-Global ID
200901020234232443
Profile
My research interest is in Modern Japanese Fiction, with an emphasis on Meiji and Taisho fiction. The focus of my research until 1999 was the works of Natsume Soseki. Between 1999-2002 I worked on women writers (Mori Mari, Koganei Kimiko) and the Mori Ogai family. Currently, I am working on utopianism, modernism, postwar literature, and urban space in Japanese literature. I also work on the Sino-Japanese issues in modern literature.I teach the following 5 undergraduate courses: Lit 231 Introduction to Japanese Literature,Lit 435 Modern Japanese Fiction 1, Lit 436 Modern Japanese Fiction 2, and two courses titled Topics in Japanese Literature. My research interest is in Modern Japanese Literature. I also teach a graduate course in the Graduate School of Global Studies (JS 511 Interpretations of Modernity. Currently I research on Taisho utopianism, modernism, postwar literature, and urban space in modern Japanese literature.(Subject of research) Urban Space in Literature A global perspective on Taisho utopianism: its origin, development, and its relevance today Three-Dimensional Reading: Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Literature Sino-Japanese issues in modern literature(Proposed theme of joint or funded research) Urban Space in Japanese Literature Japanese Modernist Literature, postwar literature, literature and colonialism Sino-Japanese issues in modern literature
Research Interests
Contemporary Japanese Literature
,Meiji literature
,literature
,Taisho
,utopianism
,modernism
,Urban Space
,Japanese Literature
Research Areas
Humanities & social sciences / Literature - Japanese /
Yiu Angela(Part:Joint author, pp. 1-179 edited, pp. 7-25 written)
Bensei shuppan 31 Jan 2016 (ISBN:9784585226604)
A collection of critical essays based on an international symposium on Kokoro in 2014. This anthology introduced the multiple readings of Kokoro from scholars in different parts of the world and explores the possibility of reading Kokoro as world ...
An invited lecture by the Graduate School of Global Studies. Delivered at the Inaugural Symposium for the GSGS. A lecture about the plans and visions for Japanese Studies in the graduate school.
Sophia University