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Higashinakano
Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0393
+ 81-(0)426-74-4135 (office, direct)
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The gold banner at the top of this and other pages of the site is no longer correct, although it will be late summer or later before I get around to changing it. I continue to work at Chuo University Graduate School and Faculty of Policy Studies, but as visiting professor. My new position is Dept. of English Language and Literature, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University.
Academic Appointments
Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Tokyo Woman's Christian University, 4/2008 ~ present
Professor, University Graduate School and Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo, 4/2003 ~ 3/2008; Associate Professor, 4/1993 ~ 3/2003
Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, Faculty of Letters, Konan University, Kobe, 4/1992 ~ 3/1993; Assistant Professor, 4/1984 ~ 3/1992
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Visiting Professor, University Graduate School and Faculty of Policy Studies, Chuo University, 4/2008 ~ present
Visiting Professor, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, 9 ~ 11/2006
Research Fellow, Institute of Policy and Cultural Studies, Chuo University, 4/1997 ~ present
Visiting Scholar, Department of English, Indiana University Bloomington, 3/1997 ~ 3/2007
Visiting Scholar, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, 4/1988 ~ 3/1989
PhD, Department of English Language and Literature, University College London, 2001
MFA, Program in Creative Writing, Wichita State University, 1984
MA, Department of English and Philosophy, Idaho State University, 1984
BA, Department of English, University of Northern Colorado, 1977
Public Diplomacy and Perceptions of Japan in the World. Ed. & intro., with Modjtaba Sadria. Forthcoming. Japanese Studies Series. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 2008.
“Ezra Pound and the Invention of Japan.” F0rthcoming in Ezra Pound: Critical Assessments, ed. Dorsey Kleitz. 4 vols. Critical Assessments of Writers in English Series. Robertsbridge, E. Sussex: Helm, 2008. @ amazon.co.uk here.
Diatxt./Yamaguchi. English ed., with Hiroshi Yoshioka. Yamaguchi: Yamaguchi Center for Arts & Media, 2008.
“‘The More We Avoid, the More We Grow Suspicious’: Perceptions of Self and Other in Japan.” With Yoshihide Tabuchi & Go Murakami. Journal of the Institute of Policy and Cultural Studies / Seisaku bunka sôgô kenkyûjo nenpô 11 (2008): 3~24.
Of Windows and Mirrors: Ambassadorial Reflections of Japan in the International Community. Ed. & intro., with Modjtaba Sadria. Special issue of Japanese Journal of Policy and Culture / Sôgôseisaku kenkyû. Tokyo: Chuo University Faculty of Policy Studies / Chuo University Press, 2007.
“Undreamt by Tyrants and Orthodoxies: Edward Said, Orientalism, and the Politics of Cyberspace.” Pp. 259~82 in Reorienting Orientalism, ed. Chandreyee Niyogi. London & New Delhi: Sage, 2006. @ Sage here, @ amazon.com here.
“Higashi Ajia no taiken, seiyô no me, rekishi toiuna no hiai naru shi: William Empson, Nihon, Chûgoku, 1931-1939” [East Asian Experience, the Eye of the West, and the Melancholy Poetry of History: William Empson, Japan, China, 1931-1939]. Trans. Shiho Takaso and Shinya Matsuura. Journal of the Institute of Policy and Cultural Studies / Seisaku bunka sôgô kenkyûjo nenpô 9 (2006): 15~31.
“Orientalism, Absence, and Quick-Firing Guns: The Emergence of Japan as a Western Text.” Journal of the Institute of Policy and Cultural Studies/ Seisaku bunka sôgô kenkyûjo nenpô 7 (2004): 79~109. Illustrated version online under Creative Commons license, 2004, here.
Japonisme, Orientalism, Modernism: A Bibliography of Japan in English-Language Verse of the Early 20th Century. Online under Creative Commons license, 2003, here.
Emerging from Absence: An Archive of Japan in English-Language Verse. Ed., with Irene De Angelis. 2003 and continuing, here.
“Truth to Power: A Bibliography of Edward Said Online.” Online under Creative Commons license, 2003, here.
“Toward a Classified Bibliography of Not One Thing: Cross-disciplinary Cultural Studies in English-Language Journals, 1999~2002.” Japanese Journal of Policy and Culture / Sôgôseisaku kenkyû 9 (2003): 371~97. Expanded version online under Creative Commons license, 2003, here.
“Advanced English Composition at Japanese University: A Model for Academic Writing and Peer Editing,” with Susan Anicad. Journal of Kanda University of Foreign Languages / Kanda gaigo daigaku kiyô 10 (1998): 73~113.
“Undertones of Modernism: Conrad Aiken and Japan.” English Language and Literature / Eigo eibeibungaku 37 (1997): 289~300.
“American Representations of a Rising Sun: Witter Bynner, Arthur Davison Ficke, and Japan.” Japanese Journal of Policy and Culture / Sôgôseisaku kenkyû 2 (1996): 1~17.
“Richard Aldington and Japan.” English Language and Literature / Eigo eibeibungaku 36 (1996): 241~54.
“Japanese Subjects in Twentieth-Century British Art History and Literature: Bibliographical Notes about Laurence Binyon.” Japanese Journal of Policy and Culture / Sôgôseisaku kenkyû 1 (1995): 181~91.
“William Empson and Japan.” English Language and Literature / Eigo eibeibungaku 35 (1995): 457~75.
“From ‘The Rocks of Sesshu’ to Triumph of the Sparrow: The Japanese Sources of Lucien Stryk’s Early Poems.” Pp. 314~40 in Zen, Poetry, the Art of Lucien Stryk, ed. Susan Porterfield. Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press / Ohio University Press, 1993. @ amazon.com here.
“Lucien Stryk and Japan.” Pp. 222~40 in Eigo eibeibungaku kenkyû no shinchôryû. Tokyo: Kinseidô, 1992.
“A Selected Critical Bibliography of Twentieth-Century British Poetry Influenced by Japan: Edmund Blunden and D. J. Enright, Work from Mainstream British Presses.” Journal of the Konan University Faculty of Letters / Kônan daigaku kiyô bungakuron 81 (1992): 181~232.
“Ambrose Bierce: A Bibliographical Essay.” Journal of the Konan University Faculty of Letters / Kônan daigaku kiyô bungakuron 77 (1990): 76~83.
“Robert Bly, S. T. Coleridge, and the Return of the Imagination to American Poetry.” Journal of the Konan University Faculty of Letters / Kônan daigaku kiyô bungakuron 65 (1987): 19~41.
“A Review of Language Teaching Theories and Methods from Grammar-Translation to the Monitor Theory and Natural Approach.” Journal of the Konan University Faculty of Letters / Kônan daigaku kiyô bungakuron 53 (1985): 121~70.
“Gone in October: John Clellon Holmes on Jack Kerouac.” Bloomsbury Review, November 1985, pp. 5, 13.
Poems in Anthology of American Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry (Beverly Hills: Monitor Books, 1983, 1984), Confluence: Contemporary Kansas Poetry (Lawrence, Kansas: Cottonwood Press, 1984), American Institute of Discussion Review, Colorado-North Review, CutBank, Indiana Review, Midwest Quarterly, Red Cedar Review, and others.
Conference Papers & Invited Lectures
“History and the Absence of History in Japanese International Relations: Perceptions and Possibilities of the Emergence of Japan as an Ethical Presence in the World.” 20th international conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada, York University, Toronto, August 16 ~ 19, 2007. Abstract here.
“Orientalism & Occidentalism: Mirrors of Otherness in Europe and Asia” (lecture series). Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Oct. 10 ~ Nov. 9, 2006.
“Kokusaika / ‘Internationalization’ and the Absent Other in Japanese Higher Education.” Tokai University Institute of Foreign Languages, Tokyo, July 11, 2005.
“Privileged at the Margins: Critical Theory and Cultural Change,” with Modjtaba Sadria. Sharing Places: Triennial conference of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, University of Malta, Msida, March 21 ~ 26, 2005. Abstract here.
“Undreamt by Tyrants and Orthodoxies: Edward Said, Orientalism, and the Politics of Cyberspace.” Other Voices, Other Cultures: Rereading Orientalism, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, Aug. 12 ~ 14, 2004. Abstract here.
“Rethinking Pound and Japan.” 22nd conference of the Ezra Pound Society of Japan, Nagoya University, Oct. 28, 2000.
“Illiteracy of a Very High Order: Pound, Exoticism, and Japan.” 18th international Ezra Pound Conference, Beijing Foreign Studies University, July 16 ~ 19, 1999.
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