Notes on Contributors

Andrea G. Arai is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. She has recently completed the fieldwork research for her dissertation, "Effects of Time and Value: The Child in Modernity and Japan."

Eric Cazdyn is currently an assistant professor of East Asian studies, comparative literature, and film studies at the University of Toronto. His new book of film aesthetics and geopolitics in Japan will be published by Duke University Press (forthcoming). Currently he is working on two projects: a rethinking of Chris Marker's film Sunless and its relation to current intellectual, cultural, and political concerns; and an analysis of the category "crisis" in the age of globalization.

Leo Ching teaches Japanese at DukeUniversity. He is the author of Becoming "Japanese": Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formations (University of California Press, 2001). Most recently, his work has appeared in positions and Public Culture.

Harry Harootunian is chair of the East Asian Studies Department and professor of history at New York University. Hismost recent publication is Overcome by Modernity (2000) and the forthcoming volume edited with Masao Miyoshi, Learning Places: The Afterlife of Area Studies (2002).

Marilyn Ivy teaches in the Department of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is the author of Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan (1955). She has recently completed two essays, one on modernity as a critical term for Buddhist studies and one on flash photography and dark enlightment in postwar Japan.

J. Victor Koschmann teaches modern Japanese history at Cornell University. He published Revolution and Subjectivity in Postwar Japan (University of California Press) in 1996, and has coedited Total War and "Modernization" (Cornell East Asia Series 100, 1998).

Masao Miyoshi is Hajime Mori Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego. He is currently working on a book on the university in the "global" economy.

Yutaka Nagahara is professor of Japanese economic history at Hosei University and a committee member of the Ohara Institute of Social Problems. He is the author of The Emperor System and Peasants (in Japanese, 1989) and others. He is a regular contributor to many leftist journals as well as literature and poetry journals in Japan.He is currently writing a book on Japanese Marxian economics in relation to postmodern discourses (both in Japanese and English), and preparing for a critical assessment of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire (in English).

Naoki Sakai is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. He is senior editor of Traces, a multilingual journal of cultural theory and translation, which is published in English, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. He is the author of Translation and Subjectivity (1997) and the coeditor of The Deconstruction of Nationality (1995, English translation forthcoming).

Tomiko Yoda is assistant professor of Japanese literature at Duke University. She is completing a book, Gender of National Literature: Heian Texts and Japanese Modernity. She has published articles on the construction of Japanese literary history, gender and nationalism, and the role of feminist theory in the study of premodern Japanese literature.

Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature and the Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa. He is author of Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (2000).

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