Japanese Faculty
Kuniko Katz
Courses: Beginning Japanese, Advanced Japanese
B.A., Antioch College. M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College. Columnist and frequent contributor to various Japanese newspapers and magazines in the United States and Japan. Translator of articles and the book Hide and Seek by Theresa Cahn-Tober into Japanese. SLC, 2006-
Herschel Miller
Courses: Advanced Japanese
B.A., University of California-Berkeley. M.Phil., Columbia University. Currently completing Ph.D. at Columbia University. Dissertation topic: bodily metamorphosis in premodern Japanese literature. Special interests include Buddhist influences in Japanese literature; supernatural tales; gender and marriage; and the uses of irony and humor. Author of various modern, premodern, and early modern Japanese-English translations; recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, Columbia University. SLC, 2004-
Sayuri I. Oyama
Courses: Ghosts, Monsters, and the Supernatural in Japanese Fiction, Reading O_ e Kenzaburo and Murakami Haruki, Intermediate Japanese
B.A., Yale University. M.A., Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley. Special interests include modern Japanese literature, narratological and political approaches to literature, ethnic and other minorities in Japan. Articles and presentations on Shimazaki Toson. Recipient of a Japan Foundation fellowship, University of California-Berkeley Townsend Center for the Humanities Fellow. SLC, 2002-