Contributors
- Contributors
William Bridges is assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Irvine. His research—which has been recognized by the Fulbright Foundation, the Japan Foundation, and the Association for Asian Studies Council of Conferences—considers the confluences of modern and contemporary Japanese and African-American literature and culture. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled "Playing in the Shadows: Fictions of Race and Blackness in Postwar Japanese Literature. Playing in the Shadows" is the first book-length study to consider the literature born of Japanese authors' encounters with black thought, people, and culture.
Irena Hayter is lecturer (assistant professor) in Japanese Studies at the University of Leeds. Her work on the cultural politics of Japanese modernism has appeared in Japan Forum, Japanese Language and Literature, POETICA, and in the edited collection Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture (2010).
Hoyt Long is associate professor of Japanese literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan (2012), which traces how genealogies of local imagining intersected with cultural and literary production in twentieth-century [End Page 431] Japan. He is currently working on a media history of epistolary communication in Japan from 1880 to 1930, as well as a quantitative history of modern Japanese literature informed by computational methods.
Gavin Walker is assistant professor of history and East Asian studies at McGill University. He is the author of The Sublime Perversion of Capital: Marxist Theory and the Politics of History in Modern Japan (2016). Current projects include a translation and introduction to Kojin Karatani's Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility (forthcoming) and two further book projects, one on the return to Marxism in contemporary critical theory, and the other on modern Japanese intellectual history.
Ayelet Zohar is a lecturer at the Art History Department, Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on the theories of visual culture and contemporary art in Japan, with a focus on historical and contemporary photography in Japan. Her recent curatorial project, Beyond Hiroshima: The Return of the Repressed Wartime Memory, Performativity and the Documentary in Contemporary Japanese Photography and Video Art, was shown on the seventieth anniversary of the Asia-Pacific War at the Tel Aviv University Art Gallery, in summer 2015. Her new book project, entitled Performative Recollection: Re-enacting the War in Contemporary Japanese Photography and Video Art, analyzes war memory in staged photography and performance art in Japan. [End Page 432]
