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Ken K. Ito, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Modern Japanese literature, particularly of the Meiji and Taisho periods; interrelationships between texts and social contexts

EDUCATION:

  • Ph.D., Japanese Literature, Yale University, 1985
  • MA, Japanese Literature, Yale University, 1979
  • BA, History, Yale College, 1974

SELECT GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

  • Michigan Humanities Award, 1996
  • University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, Faculty Research Grant, 1986, 1987-1988, 1991-1992
  • University of Michigan, Office of Vice President for Research, Small Scale Projects Grant, 1991-1992
  • University of Michigan Award for Excellence in Cencentration Advising, 1989
  • Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Research Grant, 1987-1988
  • Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship, 1982-1983
  • Sumitomo Dissertation Fellowship, 1983-1984
  • NDEA Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, 1981-1982

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

  • "Class and Gender in a Meiji Family Romance: Kikuchi Yuho's Chikyodai," Journal of Japanese Studies, 28(2), Summer 2002, pp. 339-378.
  • "The Family and the Nation in Tokutomi Roka's Hototogisu," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 60(2), December 2000, pp. 489-536.
  • "Prefacing 'Sorrows of a Heretic', in A Tanizaki Feast," ed. by Anthony Chambers. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 1999, pp. 21-32.
  • "Tanizaki Jun'ichiro," Dictionary of Literary Biography, Modern Japanese Authors II, ed. by Van C. Gessel. Detroit: Bruccoli, Layman, and Clark, 1997, pp. 216-231.
  • "Writing Time in Soseki's Kokoro," in Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays in Honor of Edwin McClellan, ed. by Dennis Washburn and Alan Tansman. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 1997, pp. 3-21.
  • "Itansha no kanashimi' no hashigaki," in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro kokusai symposium, ed. by Adriana Boscaro. Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, 1997, pp. 21-23.
  • Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds, Stanford University Press, 1991.
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