Notes on Contributors
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Timothy David Amos is an associate professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He is author of Embodying Difference: The Making of Burakumin in Modern Japan (Hawai‘i, 2011) and his research focuses on early modern Japanese outcaste history.
Antony Best is an associate professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is editor of Britain’s Retreat from Empire in East Asia, 1905–1980 (Routledge, 2016), and his current research is on British perceptions of and interactions with Japan, 1854–1975.
Richard Bowring is an emeritus professor at the University of Cambridge. He is author of In Search of the Way: Thought and Religion in Early-Modern Japan, 1582–1860 (Oxford, 2017) and coeditor of The Myōtei Dialogues: A Japanese Christian Critique of Native Traditions (Brill, 2015).
Mark E. Caprio is a professor at Rikkyo University. He is coeditor of Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and is working on a manuscript tentatively titled “Dregs of Japanese Colonialism in Korea.”
Lonny E. Carlile is an associate professor in the Center for Japanese Studies and the Asian Studies Program at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is editor of Putting Okinawa at the Center, a course reader from Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus (2014), and author of “The Post-industrialization of the Development State,” in Gerteis and George, eds., Japan since 1945 (Bloomsbury, 2013).
Linda H. Chance is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. She is coauthor of Ōoku: The Secret World of the Shogun’s Women (Cambria, 2014) and is doing research on literary masquerade across gender lines and on the history of the book.
Nina Cornyetz is an associate professor of interdisciplinary studies in the Gallatin School at New York University. She is coeditor of Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production: Two Haiku and a Microphone (Lexington, 2015) and is at work on a book manuscript on the semiotics of gender in postwar Japanese cinema. [End Page v]
William K. Cummings is a professor emeritus of international education at George Washington University. He is author of The Institutions of Education (Oxford, 2006).
Charlotte Eubanks is an associate professor of comparative literature, Japanese, and Asian studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is author of “Performing Mind, Writing Meditation: Dōgen’s Fukanzazengi as Zen Calligraphy,” Ars Orientalis (2016), and coeditor of a special issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias on “Collecting Asia/s” (2015). She is working on an examination of Japanese transwar visual culture and the relations between art and politics.
W. Wayne Farris is the Sen Sōshitsu XV Distinguished Professor of Traditional Japanese Culture and History, Emeritus, at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He is author of Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History (Hawai‘i, 2009) and continues his research on daily life and demographics in ancient Japan and on the history of Japanese tea.
Peter Flueckiger is a professor of Japanese at Pomona College. He is author of Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism (Stanford, 2011) and is currently working on translations of the Japanese Confucian scholar Dazai Shundai.
Daniel H. Foote is a professor of law in the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics at the University of Tokyo. He was the supervising translator for Shimin no shihō sanka to minshu shugi: Amerika baishinsei no jisshō kenkyū (Nippon Hyōronsha, 2016; translation of Gastil et al., The Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation [Oxford, 2010]). His current research is on criminal justice, the legal profession, legal education, and alternative dispute resolution.
Lena Fritsch is assistant curator of international art at Tate Modern. Her most recent publications on Japanese art include “The Floating Dresses of Hiroshima: War Memory in Ishiuchi Miyako’s Photography,” in Zohar, ed., Beyond Hiroshima: The...
