Notes on Contributors
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Bruce L. Batten is a professor of Japanese history and dean of graduate studies at J. F. Oberlin University. He is coeditor of Environment and Society in the Japanese Islands: From Prehistory to the Present (Oregon State, 2015).
Andrew DeWit is a professor in the School of Policy Studies at Rikkyo University. His most recent publications include “Energy Transitions in Japan,” in Lehman, ed., The Geopolitics of Global Energy: The New Cost of Plenty (Lynne Rienner, 2016), and he is doing research on smart cities, political economy of energy, local finance, and climate change mitigation/ adaptation.
Brian C. Dowdle is an assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures at the University of Montana. His 2012 dissertation at the University of Michigan was titled “Transformations in Print: The Re-creation, Reception, and Representation of Edo-period Fiction in Turn-of-the-Century Japan.” His current research is on nineteenth-century Japanese literature and the reception of the author Kyokutei Bakin.
Fabian Drixler is an associate professor of history at Yale University. He is author of Mabiki: Infanticide and Population Growth in Eastern Japan, 1600–1950 (California, 2013) and coauthor of Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace (Yale University Peabody Museum, 2015). He is doing research on social responses to global cooling episodes in Tokugawa Japan and the early modern world.
Susanna Fessler is a professor in the East Asian Studies Department at University at Albany, SUNY. She is translator of Anesaki Masaharu’s Teiunshū: Wandering Clouds, Further Journeys of a Japanese Intellectual (Kurodahan Press, 2014) and is now doing research on Tolstoy’s reaction to the Russo-Japanese War and the Japanese response.
Darryl Flaherty is an associate professor at the University of Delaware. He is author of Public Law, Private Practice: Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-century Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2013) and “Burning Down the House: Gender and Jury in a Tokyo Courtroom, 1928,” in Burns and Brooks, eds., Gender and Law in the Japanese Imperium (Hawai‘i, 2014). He is working on a comparative history of popular justice in early twentieth-century Japan. [End Page i]
Penelope Francks is an honorary fellow in Japanese studies at the University of Leeds and research associate, Japan Research Centre, SOAS, University of London. The third edition of her book Japanese Economic Development (Routledge) was published in 2015, and her current research surveys Japan and the Great Divergence.
Christopher W. Hughes is a professor of international politics and Japanese studies at the University of Warwick. He has recently published Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy under the “Abe Doctrine”: New Dynamism or New Dead End? (Palgrave, 2015) and continues his research on Japan’s security policy.
Adam L. Kern is a professor of Japanese literature and visual culture at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is editor and translator of the forthcoming The Penguin Book of Haiku (Penguin Classics, 2016).
Mark MacWilliams is a professor of religious studies at St. Lawrence University. His publications include Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in Manga and Anime (M. E. Sharpe, 2008). He is at work on, among other projects, a book manuscript on visual representations in Japanese religion.
Louella Matsunaga is a senior lecturer in the anthropology of Japan at Oxford Brookes University. She is author of the recent article “Bodies in Question: Narrating the Body in Contemporary Japan,” Contemporary Japan (2015), and her research is on Japanese religions outside Japan and on death and understandings of the body.
Yuki Miyamoto is an associate professor at DePaul University. She is author of “Inconceivable Anxiety: Representation, Disease and Discrimination in Atomic-Bomb Films,” in Edwards, ed., The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema: Critical Essays (McFarland & Co., 2015). Her current research is on environmental ethics and Minamata disease.
Susan Napier is a professor at Tufts University. She is author of “Not Always Happily Ever After: Japanese Fairy Tales in Cinema and Animation,” in Zipes, Greenhill, and Magnus-Johnson, eds., Fairy Tales...
