Contributors
- Contributors
Dennitza Gabrakova is assistant professor in Japanese studies at the City University of Hong Kong. She is the author of Weed Dreams: “Home” and “Hope” in Modern Japan (2012, in Japanese) and is interested in postcolonial criticism and translation studies.
Kyle Ikeda is assistant professor of Japanese literature at the University of Vermont. His publications include Okinawan War Memory: Transgenerational Trauma and the War Fiction of Medoruma Shun (2014) and “Geographically-Proximate Postmemory: Sites of War and the Enabling of Vicarious Narration in Medoruma Shun’s Fiction” (2012). He is also the translator of Medoruma Shun’s short story “Mabuigumi” (2011).
Jie Li is assistant professor of East Asian languages and civilizations at Harvard University. Her research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her forthcoming book Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life excavates a century of memories embedded in two alleyway neighborhoods destined for demolition. Her current book project, Utopian Ruins: A Memory Museum of the Mao Era, explores how memories of the 1950s to the 1970s are mediated through textual, audiovisual, and material artifacts. [End Page 541]
Christopher Payne completed his PhD in Chinese studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, in 2010. His main field of research concerns contemporary literature and culture from the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He is currently a lecturer in Chinese cultural studies in the Department of East Asian Studies in the School of Arts, Languages, and Cultures at the University of Manchester.
Baryon Tensor Posadas completed his doctorate in East Asian studies at the University of Toronto. He will be teaching in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota beginning fall 2014. At present, he is working on a project titled “Science Fiction, Empire, Japan” while completing a book manuscript that examines the figure of the doppelgänger in Japanese films and fictions in relation to issues of psychoanalysis, visuality, and colonial modernity.
James Reichert is currently an associate professor of Japanese literature at Stanford University. His publications include In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature (2006) and “Disciplining the Erotic-Grotesque in Edogawa Ranpo’s Demon of the Lonely Isle” in The Culture of Japanese Fascism (2009). Currently he is working on a book manuscript that considers the cultural and material significance over the course of the nineteenth century of Kyokutei Bakin’s masterpiece The Tale of the Eight Dogs of the Satomi Clan.
Luke Robinson is lecturer in film studies in the Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and articles and book chapters on Chinese language feature film, documentary, animation, and film festivals.
Yukiko Shigeto received her PhD in Japanese literature and theory and criticism from the University of Washington in 2009. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature at Whitman College. She has published “Entering History through Weak Prose: Dazai Osamu’s ‘Sange,’” Japan Forum (2013). [End Page 542]
