I am a Japanese literature and film specialist. My research interests are fundamentally interdisciplinary, bridging the fields of race, gender, and postcolonial studies, and highlighting both Japan's place in Asia and Asias place in Japan. My dissertation, entitled Invisible Men: The Zainichi Korean Presence in Postwar Japanese Culture, explores the representation of Korean residents of Japan (so-called zainichi Koreans) in postwar Japanese literature, film, and popular culture. More generally, I am interested in the intersections of race, gender, class, and nationality in postwar Japanese culture. During the 2006-07 academic year, I will teach two sections of Elementary Japanese I, The Fiction of Modern Japan (a modern Japanese literature course) and Translating Japanese: Theory and Practice. EDUCATION: B.A., Princeton University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University