Nobuko Ochner
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Associate Professor, Japanese LiteratureMoore Hall 359 Phone: (808) 956-2055 |
Educational Background
B.A.: Tokyo University of Education, English, 1969
M.A.: University of Hawaii, English, 1971
M.A.: University of Hawaii, Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese), 1977
Ph.D.: University of Hawaii, Asian Languages and Literatures (Japanese), 1984
Research Areas
Modern Japanese literature, particularly fiction
East-West literary relations
Bibliography in Japanese studies
Co-edited with William Ridgeway, Confluences: Studies from East to West in Honor of V. H. Viglielmo(Honolulu: College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawai’i, 2005).
“Nakajima Atsushi’s ‘Gojo Tan’i': An Intertextual Reading in Relation to Faust and Zarathustra,” in Ochner and Ridgeway, eds., Confluences: Studies from East to West in Honor of V. H. Viglielmo (Honolulu: College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawai’i, 2005), pp. 190-208.
Translation and annotation of “Shushin Kani’iri [Possessed by Love, Thwarted by the Bell]: A Kumi Odori by Tamagusuku Chokun, as Staged by Kin Ryosho,” in Asian Theatre Journal 22.1 (Spring 2005), 1-32.
“The Disciple” [an English translation with a critical introduction, of the novella titled Deshi by Nakajima Atsushi], in the academic journal titled Southern Humanities Review, Vol 32, No. 2 (Spring 1998), pp. 137-172.
Perception of Self in Modern Japanese Literature: Two Adaptations of Classical Chinese Historiography. InSelf as Image in Asian Theory and Practice, editor, Roger T. Ames, with Thomas P. Kasulis and Wimal Dissanayake. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. pp.372-391.
Co-editor, with Jean Toyama. Literary Relations East and West: Selected Essays. Vol. 4 in the series titledLiterary Studies East and West, general editor. Richard K. Seymour. Honolulu: College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, University of Hawaii, and the East-West Center, 1990. x+259 pp.
