| DATE: | Friday-Saturday, October 14-15, 2005 |
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| FORMAT: | Conference |
| SPONSOR: | Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Center for Japanese Studies, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities |
Dan O'Neill, Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, completed his Ph.D. from Yale University in Japanese Literature in 2002. He teaches courses in Meiji print culture and literature, Taishô aesthetics, and postwar intellectual history and popular culture. His research interests include the novel in comparative perspective, the history of reading, critical theory, sexual studies. He is working on a book manuscript on the supernatural in late 19th and early 20th century fiction.
Alan Tansman, Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, earned his A.B. from Columbia University in East Asian Studies, his M.S.J. from the School of Journalism at Columbia,and the M.A., M. Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale University in Japanese literature. His specialization is modern Japanese literature and culture. He is the author of The Writings of Kôda Aya (Yale) and the forthcoming The Culture of Japanese Fascism (Duke), and The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism (California). He is now writing a book comparing Japanese and Jewish responses to atrocity, is co-editor of Studies in Modern Japanese Literature and the forthcoming Tokyo as an Idea: Isoda Kôichi's Essays on Literature and Space (California). In addition to literature, Professor Tansman has published on topics including Japanese cultural criticism, popular culture, film, Area Studies, Japanese and Jewish responses to atrocity, and the sublime in Japanese literature. He has also translated Japanese fiction and criticism.
Jeffrey Angles is an assistant professor at Western Michigan University, where he directs the Japanese language program. He earned his PhD at Ohio State University in 2004 with a dissertation entitled Writing the Love of Boys: Representations of Male-Male Desire in the Literature of Murayama Kaita and Edogawa Ranpo. Recently, he has translated a number of modernist short stories for The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Critical Asian Studies, and Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, and several more will be forthcoming in Modanizumu: An Anthology of Japanese Modernist Prose. Other forthcoming volumes include the anthology Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion (co-edited with J. Thomas Rimer) and a book of his translations called From a Woman of a Distant Land: Poetry and Prose of Tada Chimako.
Annika A. Culver is currently a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow at Waseda University in the Political Science and Economics Department, where she has conducted dissertation research since September 2004. She is also a member of two foreign policy study groups in Tokyo which focus on Japan-Korea issues and contemporary China. While writing her dissertation "Between Distant Realities: The Politics of Surrealism in Japan and the Colonies, 1924-1945," she is a Ph.D. Candidate in Modern Japanese Intellectual History at the University of Chicago, where she began her doctoral program in September 2001 and completed a Master's degree in June 2002. Ms. Culver also received an AM degree in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard University in June 2000. She has taught English as a foreign language for the JET Program in Seto City, worked for the Asahi Shimbun as an assistant journalist/translator in Washington DC, and has coordinated two year-long workshops on intellectual engagement in East Asia for the Council on Advanced Studies at the University of Chicago
Sarah Frederick received her PhD from The University of Chicago and is currently an Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at Boston University. Her book Turning Pages: Reading and Writing Women's Magazines in Interwar Japan is forthcoming from University of Hawai'i Press in 2006. She is currently working on a project examining 20th century literature and history through the fiction of Yoshiya Nobuko (1896-1973).
William O. Gardner is Assistant Professor of Japanese Language, Literature, and Culture at Swarthmore College. His research and teaching interests include modernist and avant-garde literature, Japanese film and media, and the intersection of contemporary literature with visual and electronic media. His publications include "New Perceptions: Kinugasa Teinosuke's Films and Japanese Modernism" (Cinema Journal 43:3) and "Mongrel Modernism: Hayashi Fumiko's Hôrôki and Mass Culture" (The Journal of Japanese Studies 29.1). His book Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920's is forthcoming from Harvard University Asia Center Publications.
Yûko Iida, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at Kobe College and currently Visiting Professor at Stanford University, is a specialist of modern Japanese Literature and the author of Karera no monogatari: Nihon kindai bungaku to jendaa (Men's Stories: Gender and Modern Japanese Literature, 1998), an influential book on the establishment of a gendered literary field in the early 20th-century Japan through re-readings of Natsume Sôseki's major works and their impact on the subsequent literary texts. Professor Iida has been writing extensively on the relationship between gender constructions and the processes of becoming literary readers and writers. She has been examining the formation of gendered literary magazines from the 1900s to the 1930s, and recently published, as an author and editor, a collection of essays called Seitô to iu ba: bungaku, gendaa, 'atarashii onnna' (Seitô as a Cultural Site: Literature, Gender, and the 'New Woman,' 2002).
Cary Karacas is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. His dissertation examines how war, occupation, and reconstruction affected and shaped Tokyo.
Kimberly Kono teaches modern Japanese literature and women's studies at Smith College. Her research explores the negotiation of Japan's fraught relations with its colonies in the literary texts of Japanese writers in the late colonial period. Her article "Writing Colonial Lineage in Sakaguchi Reiko's 'Tokeisô'" is forthcoming in the Winter 2006 issue of the Journal of Japanese Studies. She is on the advisory board of the interdisciplinary journal Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism. She completed her Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 2001.
Kyoko Omori is assistant professor in the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department at Hamilton College in NY. Her publications include: "The Shanghaied Man" [Shanhai sareta otoko] by Tani Jôji (English translation) in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945, ed., J. Thomas Rimer and Van C. Gessel. She also has a translation and introduction to Higuchi Ichiyô's journal entries in the forthcoming volume The Modern Murasaki: Selected Works by Women Writers of Meiji Japan, 1885-1912, ed., Rebecca L. Copeland and Melek Ortabasi. She is currently working on a book titled Detecting Modanizumu: Shinseinen [New Youth] Magazine, Tantei Shôsestu [Detective Fiction], and the Culture of Japanese Vernacular Modernism, 1920
Ken Tadashi Oshima, Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2003. His recent publications include "Manfredo Tafuri and Japan: An Incomplete Project,' Architectural Theory Review, (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2003) and 'Micro/Macro Natures of the Karuizawa House,' House in Karuizawa (Tokyo, 2003). He is currently examining late 19th-century British-Japanese relations in design through the work of Christopher Dresser and is co-curating an exhibition on the architectural and design work of Antonin and Noemi Raymond in Japan, the U.S. and Europe.
Mariko Shigeta Schimmel received her B.A. and M.A. from Keio University under the tutorage of late Professor Eto Jun. Throughout the undergraduate and graduate studies, her interest has been in the area of the avant-garde and modernist writings from the past and present. She is currently working on her dissertation on the relationship between the modernist and proletarian literature of the 1920s and 1930s, under the guidance of Professor John Treat at Yale University. She has published articles in literary magazines Shinchō and Bungakukai, as well as a book based on her M.A. thesis, Taruho/miraiha (Taruho/Futurism).
Sarah Teasley is an Assistant Professor of Art History in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She completed the Ph.D. course in the Program in Culture and Representation from the University of Tokyo, where her dissertation concerned the creation of a non-professional "designing subject" through the popularization of design knowledge in women's magazines and higher technical education in early 20th century Japan. Other current research interests include the material culture of traditional Japanese chamber music in the modern period, the impact of travel on the formation of the concept of national design, and the relationship between sexuality and representations of the city in contemporary Japanese cinema. Recent publications include 20th Century Design History (Petit Grand Publishing, 2005, co-authored with Chiharu Watabe).
Alicia Volk received her PhD from Yale University in 2005 with a dissertation titled "The Japanese Expressionist: Yorozu Tetsugorô (1885-1927) and the Language of Modern Art." She is currently a fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Recent publications include Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement (University of Washington, 2005); Japan and Paris: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the Modern Era (co-authored with Christine Guth and Yamanashi Emiko, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2004); "Yorozu Tetsugorô and Taishō-period Creative Prints: When the Japanese Print Became Avant-garde" (Impressions no. 26, 2004); and "Katsura Yuki and the Japanese Avant-garde" (Woman's Art Journal 24, no. 2, 2003).
Swati Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is an architect and architectural historian specializing in modern architecture and the cultural landscape of British colonialism. She is interested in the ties between colonialism and modernism, and in the spatial aspect of race, gender, and ethnicity in modern cities which is capable of enriching post-colonial theory. Her awards include a National Science Foundation Grant, two grants from the American Institute of Indian Studies, and a J. Paul Getty Fellowship. Her forthcoming book is titled Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism, and the Colonial Uncanny.
Christine M. E. Guth, Independent Scholar and Visiting Professor of Art History at the University of California, Berkeley, is one of the foremost scholars in Japanese art history working in the United States today. Her publications include Art, Tea, and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993), Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City, 1615-1868 (New York: H. N. Abrams, 1996), and the exhibition catalogue Japan & Paris: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and the Modern Era (Honolulu, H.I.: Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2004). Her most recent book, Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004), interweaves Longfellow's experiences with broader issues of tourism and cultural authenticity to discuss the ideology of tourism and the place of Japan within nineteenth-century round-the-world travel.
Christopher L. Hill, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University, received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1999. His current projects include National History and the World of Nations: Japan, France, and the United States in the Second Imperial Wave, an interdisciplinary study of representations of national history in the late nineteenth century. His many publications include "The Body in Naturalist Literature and Modern Social Imaginaries," Tradition and Modernity: Comparative Perspectives (Beijing: Peking University Press, forthcoming) and "Mori ôgai's Resentful Narrator: Trauma and the National Subject in 'The Dancing Girl'," Positions 10: 2 (Aut. 2002).
Indra Levy, Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages at Stanford University, is currently working on the nexus of Westernesque women, translation, and modern vernacular literary style in Meiji fiction and theater as a key index of how Japanese writers responded to the exotic difference of modern Western literature. Another area of interest is the life and work of the socialist-feminist critic Yamakawa Kikue. She is author of "Against Essentialism: the Status of Difference in the Critical Writings of Yamakawa Kikue." In Janice Brown and Sonja Arntzen, eds. Across Time and Genre: Reading and Writing Japanese Women's Texts, 2002.
Colleen Lye, Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, received her B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1988, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1990 and 1999. Her current areas of interest are 20th-Century American Literature, Asian American Literature, Postcolonial & World Literature, Critical Theory, and Cultural Studies. Growing out of her first book on the racialization of Asian Americans in the context of U.S. relations with China and Japan, Colleen Lye's newest research interests are in historicizing Asian American literary production and in the postcoloniality of Pacific Rim spaces. A few of her many publications include "Asian American Literature and Racialization." Chris Connery, ed. Cultural Production and Cultural Imaginaries in the Asia/Pacific/America (Berkeley and Los Angeles: UC Press, forthcoming) and "Internationalisms: Americanism, Globalism, Revolution." Inter-Asia Cultural Studies 2:3 (Winter 2001).
William Schaefer, Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, received his Ph.D. from The University of Chicago in 2000. His research and teaching interests include modern Chinese literature and culture; image cultures and the relations between verbal and visual representations; photography in China; Chinese and global modernisms; landscape representation and geographies of literature; race, primitivism, and anthropological discourse; and comparative studies of literary, ethnographic, and historical narrative. His most recent publication is "Shanghai Savage" (positions: east asia cultures critique 11:1).
Jiwon Shin, Assistant Professor of Korean in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, received her Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University in 2003. She specializes in Korean literature and culture from the late Chosôn period through the modern era, focusing on issues of space and identity. Her research interests include: intersection of literature and cartographic imagination; conceptions of urban culture and literary coteries; early modern print culture; nationalist aesthetics. She is working on a book manuscript on late 18th and 19th century literary culture in Seoul. She also translates cultural theories and feminist criticisms as well as literary works from contemporary South Korea.
Angela Yiu is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Comparative Culture at Sophia University and teaches Japanese and Comparative Literature. She received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures from Yale University and her B.A. in Comparative Literature from Cornell University. Selected publications include "Urban Space in Tokyo Narratives" International Research Symposium Proceedings, Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2004; "Koganei Kimiko: A Meiji-born Woman Writer" Monumenta Nipponica, Winter 2002; Chaos and Order in the Works of Natsume Sôseki, University of Hawaii Press, 1998.
