Ted Mack
Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature
Japanese Program Coordinator
Affiliate, Project for Critical Asian Studies
Adjunct, Department of Women Studies

Affiliate, Textual Studies Program

Office: Gowen 248
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: tmack@u.washington.edu
Telephone: (206) 543-4356



Research interests: Modern Japanese-language prose; art in capitalist marketplaces; the flow of literary works throughout the larger Japanese linguistic community; the function of power in the literary field; and theories of diaspora and heterogeneity, particularly as they challenge culturalist concepts of national identity.

Current projects: My forthcoming book, Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Anthologies, Awards, and the Ascription of Literary Value (Duke University Press), focuses on the relationship between literature and the publishing industry. My current project examines the role of literature in the Japanese diaspora, with a particular focus on Brazil, focusing on the production and consumption of literary texts from both Tokyo and São Paulo.
Seattle's Taishôdô, ca. 1935

Current Courses:
Spring 2008

JAPAN 460: Advanced Reading Comprehension

Japanese-language Literature in Brazil (prewar)
MWF 9:00-10:20
DEN 311

JAPAN 533: Modern Japanese Literature Proseminar

Introduction to Disciplinary Methods
TTh 1:30-3:20
PAR 322


Detail from a handbill for an Osaka bookstore, late Edo period

Detail from a handbill for an Osaka bookstore, late Edo period ("Hon'ya Yasubê hikifuda")

Upcoming Courses (tentative):

Summer 2008

Honors A&S 262

Self and Other:
Alterity and Japanese Literature, Film, Anime

Term B
MTWTh 9:40-11:50
MGH 206

ASIAN 205: Literature and Culture of Modern Japan

Modern Japanese Literature, Film, and Anime
Term B
MTWThF 1:10-3:20
SMI 311

Fall 2008

JAPAN 431: Advanced Reading Comprehension

Contemporary Short Fiction (Authors TBA)
MWF 12:30-1:50
MOR 226

 

Spring 2009

JAPAN 460: Advanced Reading Comprehension

Japanese-language Literature in Brazil (postwar)
MWF 12:30-1:50

JAPAN 533: Modern Japanese Literature Seminar

Topic TBA
TTh 1:30-3:20


A bookseller circa 1690

A bookseller circa 1690 ("Edo sôganoko meisho taizen" by Hishikawa Moronobu, ca. 1690)

Past Courses

 

JAPAN 590: Modern Japanese Literature Seminar
(crosslisted as Honors A&S 397)

Literature and Diaspora: Japanese Fiction in Brazil
Winter 2008

JAPAN 322: Japanese Literature II

Early Modern Japanese Literature, 1600-1900
Winter 2008

JAPAN 431: Advanced Reading Comprehension

Koike Mariko, Kakuta Mitsuyo, and Aoyama Shinji
Autumn 2007

JAPAN 323: Japanese Literature III

Modern Japanese Literature, 1868-today
Spring 2007

JAPAN 360: Special Topics in Japanese Literature

Righteous Violence: Power, Justice, and the East
with Professor Chris Hamm
Winter 2007

JAPAN 432: Advanced Reading Comprehension

Ikuta Sayo, Shigematsu Kiyoshi, and Shôno Yoriko
Winter 2007

JAPAN 531: Modern Japanese Literature Seminar

Literary Debates and The Ascription of Value
Autumn 2006

JAPAN 431: Advanced Reading Comprehension

Levy Hideo, Nakashima Taiko, and Ikuta Sayo
Autumn 2006

JAPAN 433: Advanced Reading Comprehension

Ogawa Yôko and Horie Toshiyuki
Spring 2006

JAPAN 533: Modern Japanese Literature Seminar

The Taishô Literary Scene
with Professor Kôno Kensuke
Spring 2006

JAPAN 360/ASIAN 498:

Citizen, Subject, Traitor: The Paradox of National(ist) Literature
with Professor Scott Swaner
Winter 2006

JAPAN 322: Japanese Literature II

Early Modern Japanese Literature, 1600-1900
Winter 2006

JAPAN 323: Japanese Literature III

Modern Japanese Literature, 1868-today
Spring 2005

JAPAN 531: Modern Japanese Literature Seminar

Nihongo bungaku: Japanese (Language) Literature
Autumn 2004

JAPAN 431: Advanced Reading Comprehension

Murakami Haruki's After Dark
Autumn 2004

JAPAN 533: Modern Japanese Literature Seminar
Co-taught with Professor RIMBARA Sumio
(Kobe University)

The Golden Demon:
Ozaki Kôyô's Konjiki yasha and
Oguri Fûyô's Konjiki yasha (shûhen)
Spring 2004

JAPAN 433: Advanced Reading Comprehension

Kanehara Hitomi's "Hebi ni piasu"
Spring 2004

JAPAN 322: Japanese Literature II

Early Modern Japanese Literature, 1600-1900
Winter 2004

JAPAN 532: Modern Japanese Literature Seminar

Banned Books: Literary Censorship in Imperial Japan
Winter 2004

JAPAN 460: Readings in Japanese Popular Culture

Contemporary Film, Anime, and Art:
Akasegawa Genpei, Satô Tadao, and Miyadai Shinji
Spring 2003

JAPAN 433: Advanced Reading Comprehension

Okamatsu Kazuo, Adachi Chika, and Chino Yukiko
Spring 2003

JAPAN 322: Japanese Literature II

Early Modern Japanese Literature, 1600-1900
Winter 2003

JAPAN 531: Modern Japanese Literature Seminar

The Early Akutagawa Prizes, 1935-1941
Autumn 2002



The Department of Asian Languages and Literature will be welcoming a number of Japan-related speakers in 2007-08. Please see the Department's announcements page for more information.


Spring 2008: NISHINO Haruo, Director of the Institute of Nôgaku Studies at Hôsei University, will be joining us as our fifth Visiting Japanese Scholar in Japanese Literature and Culture.


The Association for Japanese Literary Studies thirteenth annual meeting, "Landscapes Imagined and Remembered," was held 22-24 October 2004 at the University of Washington.

The conference proceedings, Landscapes Imagined and Remembered (ISSN1531-5533), was published in October 2005 and is available from the Association for Japanese Literary Studies.

For more events, see the Department's events calendar.

A bookseller in Kyoto today


Send mail to: tmack@u.washington.edu
Last modified: May 5, 2008