JaniceÌýBrown
- Professor of Japanese
- Director of Graduate Studies in Japanese
by appointment,Ìýremote and/or in-person
Janice Brown received a BA in Japanese language, and an MA and PhD in Asian Studies (Modern Japanese Literature) from the University of British Columbia. She has been at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Boulder since 2007. Prior to coming to CU-Boulder, she was Professor and Chair of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Hayashi Fumiko: I Saw A Pale Horse and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond, and Tarnished Words: The Poetry of ÅŒba Minako.ÌýHer areas of specialization are modern Japanese women writers, modern and contemporary Japanese women’s poetry, Japanese literary modernism, and modern Japanese fiction.
Publications:Ìý
- Hayashi Fumiko: I Saw A Pale Horse and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond, Ithaca, New York: Cornell East Asia Series, 1997.
- Tarnished Words: The Poetry of ÅŒba Minako, Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2002.
- Across Time & Genre: Reading and Writing Japanese Women’s Texts, co-ed. Sonja Arntzen, Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2001.
Research Interests:Ìý
Modern/contemporary Japanese women’s poetry and fiction; gender, sexuality, and the body; contemporary popular and visual culture in Japan; literary modernism; critical posthumanities