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James Dorsey
Associate Professor (Japanese)
B.A., Colgate University; M.A., Indiana University; Ph.D., University of Washington
- Joined the faculty in 1997.
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Academic Interests
- Japanese literature and criticism; the function of culture in wartime Japan (1937~1945); postwar Japanese popular culture, particularly manga (comics) and folk music in the 1960s and 1970s; medieval Japanese drama; issues and practice of translation; national identity
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Selected Courses
- * Tokyo, Japan / Language Study Abroad (LSA+) program director, 1998 ~ 1999, 2003 ~ 2006.
- Japanese 10: Introduction to Japanese Culture
- Japanese 29: Topics in Japanese Studies: Love, Marriage & Gender in Japanese Popular Culture (offered in Tokyo on the LSA)
- Japanese 81: Topics in Japanese Literature and Culture: "The Art of War: Stories, Paintings, Films, and Propaganda From Japan's Modern Wars"
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Selected Publications
- Book: Critical Aesthetics: Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and the War. Forthcoming, Harvard University Press, Center for East Asian Studies.
- Translation: No More Hiroshima, Nagasaki, ed. Kuroko Kazuo & Shimizu Hiroyoshi (Tokyo: Nihon tosho sentaa, 2005).
- Translation: "A Personal View of Japanese Culture" (Nihon bunka shikan, 1942; abridged), by Sakaguchi Ango, in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, eds. Thomas Rimer and Van Gessel (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005), pp 823~835.
- Article: "Culture, Nationalism, and Sakaguchi Ango," Journal of Japanese Studies vol. 27, no. 2 (Summer 2001), pp. 347~379.
- Book Chapter: "Sakaguchi Ango," in Modern Japanese Writers, ed. Jay Rubin (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2000), pp. 31~48.
- "Literary Tropes, Rhetorical Looping, and the Nine Gods of War: 'Fascist Proclivities' Made Real," chapter in The Culture of Japanese Fascism, ed. Alan Tansman. Forthcoming, Duke University Press.
- "From Ideological Literature to a Literary Ideology: "Conversion" in Wartime Japan," in Converting Cultures, ed. by Dennis C. Washburn and Kevin Reinhart. Forthcoming, Brill Academic Publishing.
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Image: Nobuyasu Okabayashi "Kuruizaki" LP jacket (personal collection)
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