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Doug Slaymaker

Research Interests:
Contemporary Japanese literature and culture
especially fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries
Education

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1997

Research

Contemporary Japanese literature and culture, especially fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries

Graduate Training
Ph.D., University of Washington
Kentucky Foreign Language Conference

One of the scholarly highlights of campus life takes place in April. http://web.as.uky.edu/kflc/

 

 

 

Selected Publications:

Kimura Yūsuke. Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa’s Deluge (translation of Seiichi Cs and Isa no Hanran). New York: Columbia University Press, 2019.

Furukawa Hideo. Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure: A Tale That Begins with Fukushima (translation of Umatachi yo, sore demo hikari wa muku de). New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Yōko Tawada: On Writing and Rewriting. Edited by Doug Slaymaker. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, In production.

The Body in Postwar Fiction: Japanese Fiction after the War. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Confluences: Postwar Japan and France. Edited by Doug Slaymaker. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2002.