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• Harvard University: BA English and American Languages and Literature (June, 1976)
• Pembroke College, Oxford University: MA English Literature (August, 1979)
• Waseda University: non-degree research student (October, 1983 to March, 1985)
• Yale University: Ph.D. Japanese Literature (June, 1991)

• Japanese 1, Fall 2000
• Japanese 62, Fall 2000 (team-teaching with Ted Mack)
• Japanese 61, Winter 2001 (team-teaching with Ted Mack)
• Japanese 10, Spring 2001

• Connecticut College, New London, CT: assistant professor, 1987-91
• Yale University, New Haven, CT: visiting instructor, classical Japanese language and literature, 1989-90
• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA: assistant professor, 1991-92
• Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT: head instructor, advanced level (1991, '92, '94, '96, 2000); Director (2000 to the present)

  
  

Books:

1. The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995).
2. Co-editor, with Alan Tansman, Studies in Modern Japanese Literature (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1997).
3. Co-editor, with Carole Cavanaugh, Between Word and Image: Essays on the Japanese Cinema (New York: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Fall 2000).

Between Word and Image: Essays on the Japanese Cinema	The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction	Studies in Modern Japanese Literature
Shanghai by Yokomitsu Riichi (Translation)	The Shade of Blossoms (Translation)

Translations:

• The Shade of Blossoms (Kaei), by Ooka Shohei, (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998).
• Shanghai, by Yokomitsu Riichi, (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001).

Articles:

• "Miyazawa Kenji no romanshugi" (The Romanticism of Miyazawa Kenji), in Kenji somei: Essays on Miyazawa Kenji, ed. James Morita (Tokyo: Yuseido, 1988).
• "Ghostwriters and Literary Haunts: The Subordination of Ethics to Art in Ugetsu monogatari," Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 45. No. 1. (Spring, 1990).
• "The Homeless Scholar: Asakawa Kan'ichi and the Problem of Modern Identity," Asakawa Kan'ichi no sekai (The world of Asakawa Kan'ichi), ed. Asakawa Kan'ichi kenkyukai (Tokyo: Waseda University Press, 1993).
• "Manly Virtue and the Quest for Self: The Bildungsroman of Mori Ogai," Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 21: No. 1 (Winter, 1995).
• "Toward A View from Nowhere: Perspective and Ethical Judgment in Fires on the Plain," Journal of Japanese Studies, Vol. 21: No. 1 (Winter, 1997).
• "Structures of Emptiness: Kitsch, Nihilism and the Inauthentic in Mishima's Aesthetics," in Studies in Modern Japanese Literature, eds. Washburn & Tansman, (Ann Arbor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1997).
• "The Arrest of Time: Sacred Transgressions of Vengeance Is Mine," in Word and Image in Japanese Cinema, ed. Washburn and Cavanaugh, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 318-341.
• "A Story of Cruel Youth: Kon Ichikawaıs Enjo and the Art of Adapting in 1950s Japan," in Kon Ichikawa, ed. James Quandt, (Toronto: Cinematheque Ontario, 2001), pp. 151-169.

• Circles of Fantasy by C. Andrew Gerstle and The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo by Michiko Wilson, Asian Thought and Society, Vol. XII: No. 34 (March, 1987).
• Off Center by Masao Miyoshi, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 54: No. 1 (July, 1994).
• Writing Ground Zero by John Whittier Treat, Journal of Japanese Studies Vol. 22: No. 1 (Winter 1996).
• Rituals of Self-Revelation by Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 56: No. 2 (May 1997).
• "Performing Theory" (a review article of Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern Japanese Fiction by Atsuko Sakaki), Monumenta Nipponica , Vol. 55: No. 2 (Summer 2000), pp. 271-81.
• A Tanizaki Feast: The International Symposium in Venice , ed. Adriana Boscara and Anthony Hood Chambers, Journal of Asian Studies , Vol. 59: No. 3 (Fall 2000), pp. 736-37.
• Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata by Roy Starrs, Journal of Japanese Studies Vol.27: No. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 441-46.

Encyclopedia Articles:

• "Natsume Sôseki" in Encyclopedia of the Novel, ed. Paul Schellinger, Vol. 2 (Chicago, Fitsroy Dearborn, 1998)
• "Toshio Mori" in The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story, ed. Blanche Gelfant, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), pp. 390-394.
• "Futabatei Shimei" in Modern Japanese Writers, ed. Jay Rubin (New York: Charles Scribnerıs Sons, 2001), pp. 107-120.
• "Mishima Yukio" in Modern Japanese Writers, ed. Jay Rubin (New York: Charles Scribnerıs Sons, 2001), pp. 213-226.
• "Ôe Kenzaburô" in Modern Japanese Writers, ed. Jay Rubin (New York: Charles Scribnerıs Sons, 2001), pp. 277-294.

• Translating the Self: The Moral Imagination in Meiji Fiction
  This monograph examines the effects of cultural borrowing on the representations of moral values and sentiments and the impact of those representations on the development of narrative techniques in Meiji fiction.
• Tokyo As an Idea and Selected Essays by Isoda Koichi
  This is a translation he is working on with Alan Tansman of the complete text of Shiso to shite no Tokyo and five other essays (selected from Rokumeikan no keifu and Sengoshi no kukan) that trace out the history of Japan's cultural modernization through an examination of urban space. Alan and he also provide extensive annotations and critical introductions. This project is currently under review at The University of California Press.
• He is currently working on preparation of a Norton Critical Edition of The Tale of Genji.