Edward Mack
Department of Asian Languages and Literature
Box 353521, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195
Tel. (206) 543-4356
tmack@u.washington.edu
http://faculty.washington.edu/tmack

 
Education:
 Harvard University, Boston
9/96-6/02
 Doctor of Philosophy, modern Japanese literature.
 
9/99-8/00
 Tokyo University, Tokyo
Graduate research student working under Professor Komori Yôichi.
 
8/94-5/96
Columbia University, New York
Master of Arts, modern Japanese literature.
 
9/86-7/90
 University of Texas, Austin
Bachelor of Arts, history.
 
Dissertation:
 "The Value of Literature: Cultural Authority in Interwar Japan."
Advisor: Jay Rubin, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities
 
Master's Thesis:
 "Privacy in the Public Arena: The Fictional Spaces of Natsume Sôseki and Uno Kôji."
Advisor: Paul Anderer, deBary/'41 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities
 
Academic Honors:
 UW Faculty Research Grant, 2003 and 2005
Whiting Dissertation Completion Grant, 2001-2
Graduate Student Council Summer Research Fellowship, 2001
Fulbright Graduate Research Scholar Grant, 1999-2000
Foreign Languages and Area Studies Fellowship, 1998-9
Harvard full scholarship, 1996-1998
Graduate Society Fellowship, 1998
Reischauer Institute summer research fellowships, 1997 and 1998
Departmental summer research fellowship, 1997
Cornell University research grant, summer 1997
Noma-Reischauer Prize for best graduate student paper, 1997
 
Professional Experience:
  
9/02-present
 Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Winter 2005
Visiting Researcher, Kobe University
Autumn 2003
Visiting Researcher, Nihon University
8/01-12/01
 Visiting Instructor, Brandeis University
9/00-6/01
 Visiting Instructor, Dartmouth College
 
Publications and Translations:
  • Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Anthologies, Awards, and the Ascription of Literary Value (forthcoming from Duke University Press).
 
  • “Tekusuto no aidentitii, arui wa, tekusuto no sôkansei ni kansuru disukuuru” and “Textual Identity: Discourses of Textual Interrelation,” Morii Masumi, ed., The Materiality of Literature (Tokyo: Nihon Daigaku Bunri Gakubu, 2007) 100-11.
 
  • "Seattle’s Little Tokyo: Bundan Fiction and the Japanese Diaspora," Dennis Washburn and James Dorsey, eds., Reading Material: The Production of Narratives, Genres, and Literary Identities (West Lafayette, IN: Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2007).
 
  • "Confronting a Colonial Past, Challenging a Postcolonial Present," review of Yuasa Katsuei, Kannani and Document of Flames: Two Japanese Colonial Novels, trans. Mark Driscoll, Postcolonial Studies: Culture, Politics, Economy 9:1 (March 2006).
 
  • "Diasporic Markets: Japanese Print and Migration in São Paulo, 1908-1935,"Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 29 (2005) 163-77. [Errata]
 
  • Landscapes Imagined and Remembered (West Lafayette, IN: Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2005). Co-edited with Paul S. Atkins and Davinder L. Bhowmik.
 
  • "Accounting for Taste: The Creation of the Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for Literature," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 64:2 (December 2004).
  • Review, Maeda Ai, Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity, Journal of Asian Studies 63:4 (November 2004).
  • "Pure Art as Mass Culture: Industrialized Publishing and 'Modern Japanese Literature,'" in Wilt Idema, ed. Books in Numbers (Cambridge: Harvard-Yenching Library, 2007).
  • "Marketing Japan's Literature in its 1930s Colonies," Books and Empire, special issue of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 28:1/2 (2004).
  • The Japanese poetry of Yi Sang; a collection of poems for David McCann, ed. The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry (Columbia University Press, 2004).
  • Abe Kôbô, "Te," "Shinin tôjô," and "Shinin saitôjô" for Juliet W. Carpenter, ed. Abe Reader (forthcoming from Kodansha.)
  • Murakami Takashi, Super Flat (Madra Publishing Co., Ltd., 2000).
  • Tanaka Katsuhiko, "The Discovery of a National Language in Meiji Japan" in Canon and Identity: Japanese Modernization Reconsidered (German Institute of Japanese Studies, 2000); translated with Ian Astley.
  • Kamei Hideo, "Western Elements in the Formation of Modern Japanese Literature: The Problem of the Protagonist and Structure" in Canon and Identity: Japanese Modernization Reconsidered (German Institute of Japanese Studies, 2000).
  • Abe Kôbô, "Hand" ("Te") originally appeared in the Winter 1996-97 issue of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art.
  • “The Japan Art Institute” (with Reiko Tomii), “Takayama Tatsuo,” and “Yokoyama Misao” in Ellen Conant, ed., Nihon-ga (Inshô-sha, 1995).
 
Presentations:
  • "'Colonial' Fiction and Textual Identity" at Princeton University, November 2007.
 
  • "Tekisuto no aidentitii, arui wa, tekisuto no sôkansei ni kansuru disukuuru" at Nihon University, July 2007.
 
  • "Nihon bungaku no hate: San Pauro no Endô Shoten" at Ritsumeikan University, July 2007.
 
  • "Colonial Literature and Textual Identity" at the University of Washington, June 2007.
 
  • "Diasporic Imperialism: 'Colonial Literature' in São Paulo, 1908-1941" at Columbia University, October 2006.
 
  • "Senzen San Pauro no shomotsu shijô -- Endô Shoten no ikisatsu" at Keiô University, June 2006.
 
  • "Literature and Diaspora: Reconsidering the Object of Knowledge" at the University of Washington, May 2006.
 
  • "Binding the Field: Publishing History and Modern Japanese Literature" at the University of Michigan, February 2006.
 
  • "Publishing and the Creation of a Cultural Identity: Selling Modern Japanese Literature" at the University of California, Berkeley, December 2005.
 
  • "Seattle’s Little Tokyo: Bundan Fiction and the Japanese Diaspora" at Dartmouth College, October 2005.
 
  • "Busshitsu-teki na kindai Nihon bungaku-shi to sono igi" at São Paulo University, June 2005.
 
  • Introduction to Kabuki and taidan with Japanese National Living Treasure Nakamura Ganjirô at Seattle Asian Art Museum, June 2005.
 
  • "Anthologies and Awards: Publishing History and Modern Japanese Literature" at Columbia University, April 2005.
 
  • "Shuppan bunkashi to Nihon kindai bungaku" at Kobe University, March 2005.
 
  • "Diasporic Markets: Japanese Print Culture and Migration to Brazil" at the Paradise of Readers Conference, University of Victoria, Wellington, February 2005.
 
  • "Kaigai ni watatta hôji insatsubutsu: San Pauro, 1918-1935" at Nihon University, September 2004.
  • "Literary History, Linguistic Identity, and the Indelible Traces of Imperialism" at the Modern Language Association conference, December 2003.
  • "Soto kara mieru mono: Amerika de no Nihon bungaku kyôiku" at Kobe University, December 2003.
  • "The Industrialization of Literary Publishing in Japan: Technology, Commerce, and Community" at the Books in Numbers Symposium, Harvard University, October 2003.
  • "Technology, Commerce, Community: The Production of Japanese Literature" at the University of Washington, October 2003.
  • "Marketing Japanese Classics in its 1930s Colonies" at the Books and Empire in Asia Conference, University of Sydney, February 2003.
  • "Social Realism: Exteriority and the Modern Literary Canon" at the Association of Japanese Literary Studies Conference, Purdue University, October 2002.
  • "Pulp(ed) Fiction: Bandô Kyôgo and the Creation of an Imperial(ist) Culture" at the University of Washington, February 2002.
  • "Critical Mass: The Concept of Taishû" at the Categorizing Taishô Conference, Harvard University, April 2001.
  • "Dissolving Boundaries: The Future of Japanese Literary Studies" at the Modern Japan Workshop, Yale University, March 2001.
  • "Awarding Distinction: The Creation of the Akutagawa Prize" at the German Institute of Japanese Studies, December 1999.
  • "The Reconstruction of a Literary Legacy" at the Columbia University Graduate Student Conference, February 1999.
  • "The Japanese Poetry of Yi Sang" at the New England Association of Asian Studies Conference, Tufts University, October 1998.
  • "The Abacus and the Canon" at the Columbia University Graduate Student Conference, February 1997.
  • "The Production of Literary Cultural Capital in 1927 Japan" at the Ford Foundation Visual and Material Cultural Seminar, Harvard University, February 1997.
  • "Privacy in the Public Arena" at the Columbia University Graduate Student Conference, February 1996.

Last updated April 24, 2008