Spring 2024
On faculty exchange at Nihon University in Tokyo
Upcoming Courses: Summer 2024
Term A&B: Introduction to Japanese Cinema (online, asynchronous)
Upcoming Courses: Early Fall Start 2024
ARTSCI 160 I: Modernity through Japanese Film & Fiction
Upcoming Courses: Autumn 2024
JAPAN 531: Graduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature
JAPAN 431: Advanced Reading in Japanese
Upcoming Courses: Winter 2025
JAPAN 322: Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature
Upcoming Courses: Spring 2025
HONORS 212A: Modern Japan through Cinema
Past Courses
Graduate Seminars
Autumn 2023: Graduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature
Autumn 2021: New Approaches to Modern Japanese Literature
Autumn 2020 (with Professor Takahashi Kōhei): Graduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature
Winter 2020: Graduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature
Autumn 2018: Graduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature
Spring 2018 (with Professor Kō Youngran): Contemporary Japanese Literature
Autumn 2016: Short Fiction from Sekai magazine: 1946-56
Spring 2016: Fetishism and Representations of the Body in Tanizaki and Kawabata/Vernacular Modernism and Avant-Garde Documentary Film
Winter 2016: Advanced Writing Seminar
Winter 2015 (with Professor Tsuboi Hideto): Japanese-Language Literature in North America
Spring 2014 (with Professors Davinder Bhowmik and Suga Keijirō): Contemporary Japanese Fiction
Autumn 2011: New Directions in English-language Japanese Colonial Studies
Spring 2011 (with Professors Odaira Maiko and Kō Youngran): Readings in Modern Japanese Cultural Studies
Autumn 2009: New Directions in Japanese Cultural Studies
Spring 2009 (with Professor Hibi Yoshitaka): Japanese-Language Texts at Seattle’s Nihongo Gakkō
Spring 2008: Introduction to Disciplinary Methods
Winter 2008: Literature and Diaspora: Japanese Fiction in Brazil
Autumn 2006: Literary Debates and The Ascription of Value
Spring 2006 (with Professor Kōno Kensuke): The Taishō Literary Scene
Autumn 2004: Nihongo bungaku: Japanese (Language) Literature
Spring 2004 (with Professor Rimbara Sumio): The Golden Demon: Ozaki Kōyō’s Konjiki yasha and Oguri Fūyō’s Konjiki yasha (shūhen)
Winter 2004: Banned Books: Literary Censorship in Imperial Japan
Autumn 2002: The Early Akutagawa Prizes, 1935-1941
Undergraduate Courses
Winter 2023: Undergraduate Seminar: Ogawa Yōko
Autumn 2022: Introduction to Japanese Film
Winter 2022: Edo to Meiji: Japanese Literature, 1814-1920
Spring 2021: Undergraduate Seminar: Contemporary Women Authors
Autumn 2020: The Short Fiction of Murakami Haruki, 1980-96
Spring 2019: Advanced Undergraduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature
Autumn 2019: Introduction to Japanese Film
Autumn 2018: Introduction to Japanese Film
Autumn 2017 (with Professor Andrea Arai): “Mixed Race” and Modern Japan
Spring 2017: Proletarian Literature in Japan and the Critique of Capitalism
Spring 2017: Introduction to Japanese Cinema
Spring 2015: Japanese-Language Literature of North and South America
Autumn 2014: New Voices in Japanese Literature
Spring 2012: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japanese Literature
Winter 2007 (with Professor Chris Hamm): Righteous Violence: Power, Justice, and the East
Winter 2006 (with Professor Scott Swaner): Citizen, Subject, Traitor: The Paradox of National(ist) Literature
Spring 2005, 2007, Winter 2011, 2013, 2019, 2021: Modern Japanese Literature, 1868-today
Winter 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008: Early Modern Japanese Literature, 1600-1900
Special Topics in Film
Winter 2023: Japanese Noir
Winter 2021: Kurosawa and Ozu
Winter 2018: The Films of Mizoguchi Kenji
Autumn 2014: The Films of Naruse Mikio
Autumn 2012: The Films of Kurosawa Akira
Winter 2012: The Films of Ozu Yasujirō
Advanced Reading
Autumn 2022: Fujino Kaori, Tanaka Shin’ya, and Miyauchi Yūsuke
Autumn 2021: Asabuki Mariko, Matsuda Aoko, and Takahashi Gen’ichirō
Spring 2021: Kobayashi Erika, Nishi Kanako, and Takiguchi Yūshō
Spring 2020: Shibasaki Tomoka, Maruyama Osami, Oyamada Hiroko
Winter 2020: Murata Sayaka, Hashimoto Osamu, Matsuo Suzuki, and Murakami Haruki
Winter 2019: Hoshino Tomoyuki
Spring 2018: Hoshino Tomoyuki and Kawakami Hiromi
Winter 2017: Yan Ii and Kinoshita Furukuri
Winter 2015: Prewar Fiction
Autumn 2015: Tsumura Kikuko, Sawanishi Yūten, Oyamada Hiroko
Autumn 2012: Matsuda Aoko, Akazome Akiko, Yoshimoto Banana, and Okada Toshiki
Spring 2012: Japanese-Language Short Fiction from Brazil
Autumn 2011: Ikezawa Natsuki, Nakagami Nori, and Asabuki Mariko
Spring 2011: Nishimura Kenta
Winter 2011: Itoyama Akiko
Autumn 2010: Tawada Yōko, Matsunami Tarō, and Ishii Shinji
Spring 2010: Tanizaki Yui, Maeda Shirō, Kawakami Mieko
Winter 2010: Matsuura Rieko, Natural Woman
Autumn 2009: Murakami Haruki’s 1Q84
Spring 2009: Japanese-language Literature in Brazil (prewar)
Autumn 2008: Kanehara Hitomi, Horie Toshiyuki, Ikezawa Natsuki, Aoki Jungo
Spring 2008: Japanese-language Literature in Brazil (prewar)
Autumn 2007: Koike Mariko, Kakuta Mitsuyo, and Aoyama Shinji
Winter 2007: Ikuta Sayo, Shigematsu Kiyoshi, and Shōno Yoriko
Autumn 2006: Levy Hideo, Nakashima Taiko, and Ikuta Sayo
Spring 2006: Ogawa Yōko and Horie Toshiyuki
Autumn 2004: Murakami Haruki’s After Dark
Spring 2004: Kanehara Hitomi’s “Hebi ni piasu”
Spring 2003: Contemporary Film, Anime, and Art: Akasegawa Genpei, Satō Tadao, and Miyadai Shinji
Spring 2003: Okamatsu Kazuo, Adachi Chika, and Chino Yukiko
Honors Courses
2010, 11, 12, 16, 17, 20, 22 and 2023: Film and Modern Japan
Autumn 2015: Japanese-Language Literature in the Americas
Summer 2008: Self and Other: Alterity and Japanese Literature, Film, Anime
Winter 2008: Literature and Diaspora: Japanese Fiction in Brazil
Summer Courses
2020-23: Introduction to Modern Japanese Film
2019: Modern Japanese Literature, Film, and Anime
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017: Modern Japanese Literature, Film, and Anime (also as a Catalyst workspace and Canvas site)
Early Fall Start 2023: Path to UW Academic Introduction Seminar
Early Fall Start 2018-22: Modernity Through Japanese Film & Fiction
Microseminars
30 October 2012 – 20 November 2012: Transnationalism, Visuality, and Identity: A Microseminar with Shu-mei Shih
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