Notes on Contributors
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Paul S. Atkins is an associate professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington. His recent publications include “Chigo in the Medieval Japanese Imagination,” Journal of Asian Studies (2008), and he is currently doing research on the poetry and poetics of Fujiwara no Teika.
Simon Andrew Avenell is an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. He is author of “From the ‘People’ to the ‘Citizen’: Tsurumi Shunsuke and the Roots of Civic Mythology in Postwar Japan,” positions: east asia cultures critique (2008), and “Regional Egoism as the Public Good: Residents’ Movements in 1960s and 1970s Japan,” Japan Forum (2006). His current research is on the intellectual history of shimin shakai (civil society) in contemporary Japan.
Harald Baum is a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. He is coeditor of Corporate Governance in Context (Oxford, 2005) and founding editor of the Journal of Japanese Law. His current research is on Japanese law, comparative law, company law, and securities regulation.
Amy Borovoy is an assistant professor at Princeton University. She is author of “Japan’s Hidden Youths: Mainstreaming the Emotionally Distressed in Japan,” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (2008), and The Too-Good Wife: Alcohol, Codependence, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan (California, 2005). She is now doing research on the emergence of Japan in anthropology as a laboratory for imagining alternatives to liberalism and individualism.
Roger H. Brown is an associate professor of Japanese history at Saitama University. He is the author of “Visions of a Virtuous Manifest Destiny: Yasuoka Masahiro and Japan’s Kingly Way,” in Saaler and Koschmann, eds., Pan-Asianism in Modern Japanese History: Regionalism, Colonialism, and Borders (Routledge, 2007), and is currently writing a book on the nationalist thought and political activities of Yasuoka Masahiro (1898–1983).
Patrick Caddeau is director of studies in Forbes College at Princeton University. He is author of Appraising Genji: Literary Criticism and Cultural Anxiety in the Age of the Last Samurai (State University of New York, 2006) and is doing research on censorship and romanticism in Edo fiction. [End Page v]
Jennifer Chan is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. She is editor of Another Japan Is Possible: New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education (Stanford, 2008), and her most recent research is on Islam in Japan.
Rebecca L. Copeland is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is author of Lost Leaves: Women Writers of Meiji Japan (Hawai‘i, 2000) and Women Critiqued: Translated Essays on Japanese Women’s Writing (Hawai‘i, 2006). Her current research is on kimono as language in Japanese women’s fiction.
Rachel DiNitto is an associate professor of Japanese at the College of William and Mary. She is author of Uchida Hyakken: A Critique of Modernity and Militarism in Prewar Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2008) and is working on a new book project titled “Japan’s Lost Decade: National Identity, Popular Culture, and the Narratives of Political Imagination in Millennial Japan.”
James L. Ford is an associate professor in the Department of Religion at Wake Forest University. His recent publications include Jōkei and Buddhist Devotion in Early Medieval Japan (Oxford, 2006).
William O. Gardner is an associate professor of Japanese at Swarthmore College. He is author of Advertising Tower: Japanese Modernism and Modernity in the 1920s (Harvard University Asia Center, 2006) and “Literature as Life-form: Media and Modernism in the Literary Theory of Okuma Nobuyuki,” Monumenta Nipponica (2008). His current research is on science fiction and on media and virtuality in contemporary fiction.
Patricia J. Graham is an independent scholar and Asian art consultant and a research associate at the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas. She is author of Faith and Power in Japanese Buddhist Art: 1600–2005 (Hawai‘i, 2005) and is working on a follow-up study of contemporary Buddhist-inspired Japanese art. She currently codirects a U.S.-Japan exchange project in Kansas and Saitama on local organic foods.
John O. Haley is the William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law at the Washington University...
