MICHIKO NIIKUNI WILSON

(Ph.D., University of Texas--Austin)
Professor (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures).
 

Fields: Modern Japanese Literature (1868-Present). Author of Gender Is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking the (Fe)Male in the Works of Oba Minako (1999) and The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo: A Study of Themes and Techniques (1986; reprint 1994), the only book-length study of works by the 1994 Nobel Laureate.  Translator of The Pinch Runner Memorandum by Kenzaburo Oe (1994). Articles on Yukio Mishima and Yuriko Miyamoto, including "Kenzaburo Oe: An Imaginative Anarchist with a Heart," The Georgia Review (Spring 1995); "Becoming or (Un)becoming: The Female Destiny Reconsidered in Oba Minako's Narratives" in The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women'sWriting (1996). Series Editor of an East Bridge Japanese Literature-in-translation series.  Ms. Wilson's research interests include feminist literary theory and criticism, Japanese women writers, and cross-cultural studies.
E-mail address: mnw5m@virginia.edu.
 

(Ph.D., University of California--Berkeley)
Assistant Professor (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures).

Professor Burk earned her PhD in spring 2001 from the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Her dissertation is entitled: "Reading between the Lines: Poetry and Politics in the Imperial Anthologies of Japan, 1275-1350." She spent the 2001-2002 academic year at Harvard University where she was a PostDoctoral Fellow at the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies. She joins AMELC in the Fall 2002 semester, and she will teach both pre-modern and modern Japanese as well as courses in translation on Japanese literature. Her next research project will examine the appropriation and interpretation by early modern and modern institutions (governmental, academic, and artistic) of the imperial anthologies, including the works of Edo nativist scholars such as Motoori Norinaga, criticism by early Meiji poets struggling with Western ideas about art, for example Masaoka Shiki, prewar interpretations by such prominent scholars as Hisamatsu Sen'ichi, and government-sponsored treatises such as Yamada Yoshio's Kokutai no hongi (1936).
E-mail address: sb4at@virginia.edu.
 

TOMOKO MARSHALL

(M.A., St. Louis University)
Instructor (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures).

Field: Education (Curriculum and Instruction) focused on Japanese language teaching.
E-mail address: tm5x@virginia.edu.
 

TOMOMI SATO

(M.A., West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
Instructor (Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures).

Field: Education (Curriculum and Instruction) focused on Japanese language teaching.
E-mail address: ts2fn@virginia.edu.