{"id":73,"date":"2016-03-27T13:12:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T20:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/?page_id=73"},"modified":"2025-01-15T10:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:26:45","slug":"edward-mack","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Mack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor of Modern Japanese Literature, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures<\/a>
\nDirector, Center for Japanese Studies<\/a>
\n<\/span>Adjunct, Dept of Cinema & Media Studies
\n<\/a><\/span>Adjunct,\u00a0<\/span>Dept of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies<\/a>
\n<\/span>Affiliate,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Textual Studies Program<\/a><\/p>\n

248 Gowen Hall
\nUniversity of Washington
\nSeattle, WA 98195-3521
\n+1 (206) 543-4356<\/p>\n

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My research interests: Modern Japanese-language prose; art and capitalism; 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.<\/p>\n

My first book, Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value<\/a><\/em> (Duke University Press, 2010), examines the relationship between the concept of a national literature and the publishing industry. It looks at the Great Kant\u014d Earthquake of 1923, Kaiz\u014d-sha’s Gendai Nihon bungaku zensh\u016b, the establishment of the Akutagawa Prize for literature, and contemporary debates about literary value.<\/p>\n

My second book, Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism<\/em><\/a> (University of California Press, 2022) explores the literary activities of Japanese migrants to Brazil prior to the Second World War and complicates the received paradigm of national literatures. It is available in paperback and as a free PDF to download from the UC Press site.<\/p>\n

In addition, I have been working on Asian American cultural history, with a focus on Japanese-language discourse and literary production. I edited the 28-volume\u00a0Shiatoru-ban Nihongo tokuhon<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(reproduction of the textbook series produced in Seattle from 1920-38), and the 16-volume\u00a0Kash\u016b-ban Nihongo tokuhon<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(reproduction of the textbook series produced in California from 1924-39). Both were published by\u00a0Bunsei Shoin<\/a>\u00a0(Tokyo), the first in 2012 and the second in 2014.<\/p>\n

My complete curriculum vitae (PDF<\/a>) is available and should be more-or-less up-to-date.<\/p>\n

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Professor of Modern Japanese Literature, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures Director, Center for Japanese Studies Adjunct, Dept of Cinema & Media Studies Adjunct,\u00a0Dept of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Affiliate,\u00a0Textual Studies Program 248 Gowen Hall University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-3521 +1 (206) 543-4356 My research interests: Modern Japanese-language prose; art and capitalism; the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-73","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":453,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/73\/revisions\/453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/tmack\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}