DOUGLAS SLAYMAKER (updated 4/09) University of Kentucky
Japan Studies Program
Modern and Classical Languages, Literature, and Cultures
Lexington, KY 40506-0027 e-mail:
jpn dot stdy09 @Spamex dot com
Director, Japan Studies Program, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY. (From July, 2003).
Co-director, Asia Center at the University of Kentucky
Ph.D. Japanese Language and Literature, University of Washington,
March 1997.
M.A., Japanese Language and Literature,
University of Washington, June 1993.
Monbusho Scholar, Kumamoto National
University, Kumamoto, Japan, 1991-1993.
Paris mon amour: Japanese Representations of France. Book-length manuscript.
This project examines the configurations of France and Japan, articulated in the work (visual and literary) of Japanese artists traveling from Tokyo to Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. I look most closely at a group of artists who traveled, via southeast Asia, to Paris. Chapters will focus on the painter Fujita Tsuguharu, the poet and painter Kaneko Mitsuharu, novelists Hayashi Fumiko, and Yokomitsu Riichi, and poet Yosano Akiko. It affords a new intervention with the experience of globalization, namely, the view from Japan and, more broadly, from China and the rest of Asia. This will be the first English-language volume to examine this nexus of issues and will provide the first extended critical evaluation of many of these artists.
Literary Mischief: Sakaguchi Ango, Culture,
and the War Edited by James
Dorsey and Doug Slaymaker with translations by James Dorsey. Lanham MD:
Lexington Books, 2009.
Yōko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere. Edited by Doug Slaymaker. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2007.
The Body in Postwar Fiction: Japanese Fiction after the War. Routledge: Spring
2004. 200 pages.
Confluences: Postwar Japan and France. Edited by Doug Slaymaker. University of Michigan Center for
Japanese Studies, 2002. 185 pages.
One Hundred Years of Popular Culture in
Japan. Edited by Doug
Slaymaker. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin
Mellen Press, 2000. 228 pages.
Traveling without Roads: Body and Place in Tawada Yokos Fiction. In Transforming Texts – Text Transformationen, edited by Christine Ivanovic. Tbingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, forthcoming (2009). 11 manuscript pages.
Sakaguchi Angos Individual Cult(ure) in Literary Mischief: Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War Edited by James Dorsey and Doug Slaymaker with translations by James Dorsey. Lanham MD: Lexington Books, 2009. 28 manuscript pages.
Yokomitsu
Riichis Others: Paris and Shanghai." In Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature, edited by
Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams. New York: Routledge, 2007. 109-124.
"America
no tabi." Eureka. December, 2004. 40-43.
"Saegusa
Kazuko Translates the Postwar Female Japanese Body." Gnero,
lenguaje y traduccin. Valencia (Spain): 2003. 60-74.
"Yokomitsu Riichi and the Longing
for Home in the Japanese Imagination of France." Europe and the Asia-Pacific: Culture, Identity and Representations of
Region. Stephanie Lawson, ed.
London: Curzon Press, 2002.
"Women Writing the Postwar
Body." In Across Time and Genre: Reading and Writing
Women's Texts. Edited by
Janice Brown and Sonja Arntzen.
Edmonton: Department of
East Asian Studies, University of Alberta, 2002. 78-81.
"When Sartre was an Erotic
Writer: Body, Nation, and Existentialism in
Japan after the Asia-Pacific War."
Japan Forum. Spring 2002. pp. 77-103.
The Japanese Desire for France: Japanese Artists in 1920s Paris. The Center for Asian Democracy, University of Louisville. September 20, 2007.
"The Body in the Text of
the City: Yokomitsu, Endoh, Tawada."
Workshop: "The City, the Body and the Text in Modern Japan."
University of Toronto. April 29, 2005.
"Yokomitsu
Riichi's Others: Paris and
Shanghai." Conference: "Japan and its Others:
A Critical Approach To Modern Japanese Literature." University of Leeds, United
Kingdom. June 25-29, 2003.
"Yokomitsu Riichi and the
City: Tokyo, Shanghai,
Paris." Soka University of
America, Aliso Viejo, California.
February 11, 2003
"Tokyo and Manchuria: Literature of the Flesh in Two
Locales" Conference. "Cultural Dimensions of the Center-Periphery
Divide: Religion, Literature, and
Popular Culture." Ohio State
University. January 29, 1999.
Presentation: Yoko Tawada Travels. Conference: Weltliteratur in the global village? Yoko Tawadas West-Eastern Pillow Books. Tours, France. Universit Franois-Rabelais, , May 11-16, 2009.
Presentation: "The Fujita
in the Picture: the Photograph in the Public Life of the Artist." Conference: "Entitled: The
Photography/Text Interface in Japan and Beyond." Toronto. University of
Toronto. May 3-4 2007.
Organizer. Panel: "Texts in the Camera
Eye."
Presentation: "The
Traveling (Camera) Eye in Tawada Yōko." National Conference: Association for Asian Studies. San Francisco, CA 6-9 April, 2006.
Organizer. Panel: "Translating Language and Space in the Writings of Yoko Tawada." National Conference: Modern Languages
Association. Washington D.C. 27-30
December, 2005.
Presentation:
"Reading the Visual text: Tawada Yoko's Tabi wo suru hadaka no me."
National Conference: Association of Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS), Dartmouth College, 7-9 October, 2005.
Organizer. Panel: "Omniphony in Japan: Tawada,
Ito, and Yi and Writing
Across Language Borders"
National Conference: Association for Asian Studies. Chicago, IL 31
March-4 April, 2005.
Organizer. Panel: "Tawada Yoko Does not Exist." Presentation: "Tawada Yoko and the
Characterization of No Place." National
Conference: Association for Asian Studies. San Diego CA.
2-7 March, 2004.
Presentation (with Karen Slaymaker and Ryo Kitamura):
"Cross-Cultural Communication, Focus on Japan." NAFSA: Association of International
Educators Region VI. Lexington,
KY. 5 November, 2002.
Presentation:
"Of Women and War:
Saegusa Kazuko's Nearly Impossible Translation." International
Seminar on Gender and Language ("The Gender of Translation / The
Translation of Gender"), University of Valencia, Spain. October, 16-18 2002.
Presentation: "Saegusa Kazuko Writes of Women and War."
Midwest Japan Seminar, Working Papers Series, in conjunction with the
Mid-Atlantic Conference on Asian Affairs. Wittenberg University. 28 September, 2002.
Organizer. Panel: "Paris Mon Amour: The Japanese Desire for
France." Presentation: "Yokomitsu Riichi and the Longing
for Home." National
Conference: Association for Asian Studies. Washington, D.C.
12-15 March, 2002.
Presentation: "Women Writing Women
after the War."
Conference: Across Time And
Genre: Reading and Writing Japanese Women's Texts. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. 16-20 August, 2001.
Presentation: "Longing for Home in
the Japanese Imagination of France."
Conference: Europe and the Asia-Pacific: Culture, Identity and
Representations of Region.
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom. 10-11 May, 2001.
University of Kentucky Summer
Research Grant, to support research in Paris, France, Summer 2007. ($5,000).
Kluge
Center Fellow, Library of Congress, to support six months of research at the
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. June – December 2004.
(approximately $21,000)
University of
Kentucky Summer Research Grant, to support two months of research, Summer 2001.
($7,500)
Social
Science Research Council-Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Postdoctoral Fellowship.
University of Information and Library Science, Tsukuba, Japan. January – December 2000. (approximately $70,000)
North East Asia Council (NEAC) Short-Term Travel to Japan for Professional Purposes Grant. To support interviews with Kato Shuichi. Summer 1999. (200,000)
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:
Modern Language Association, Division Executive Committee, East Asian Languages and Literatures after 1900, 2009-2011. Series editor (with Bill Tsutsui), New Studies of Modern Japan, Lexington Books, 2008-present. Manuscript review: Comparative Literature Studies, Japan Forum, Japanese Language and Literature, Journal of Japanese Studies (2009: 1), PMLA, Seminar: A Journal of German Studies, University of Hawaii Press, University of Minnesota Press, Lexington Books, Longman Publishers.
Association
of Asian Studies
National
Association for Japanese Literary Studies
Association
of Teachers of Japanese
Japan-America
Society of Kentucky (Board of Advisors)
Modern
Languages Association