Ken K. Ito
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Professor, Japanese LiteratureMoore Hall 386 Phone: (808) 956-2233 |
Educational Background
B.A.: Yale College, History, 1974
M.A.: Yale University, Japanese Literature, 1979
Ph.D.: Yale University, Japanese Literature, 1985
Research Areas
Modern Japanese literature, particularly fiction of the Meiji period (1868-1912), with a focus on the interconnections between literature and social ideologies
Narratology
Reception studies
Cultural studies
An Age of Melodrama: Family, Gender, and Social Hierarchy in the Turn-of-the-Century Japanese Novel. Stanford University Press, 2008. —Recipient of the 2010 John W. Hall Prize of the Association for Asian Studies
Visions of Desire: Tanizaki’s Fictional Worlds. Stanford University Press, 1991.
“Class and Gender in a Meiji Family Romance: Kikuchi Yūhō’s Chikyōdai,” Journal of Japanese Studies, 28(2), Summer 2002, 339-378.
“The Family and the Nation in Tokutomi Roka’s Hototogisu,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 60(2), December 2000, 489-536.
“Prefacing ‘Sorrows of a Heretic’,” in A Tanizaki Feast, ed. by Anthony Chambers (Ann Arbor: Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 1998), 21-32.
“Writing Time in Sōseki’s Kokoro,” in Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays in Honor of Edwin McClellan, ed. by Dennis Washburn and Alan Tansman (Ann Arbor: Michigan Center for Japanese Studies Publications, 1997), pages 3-21.
