Ken Ito

Name: Ken Ito

Title(s):

• Professor
• Director of the Center for Japanese Studies

Contact Information: 734.764.2023 , kenkito@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CJS

Department Affiliation(s):

• Asian Languages and Cultures

Education Background: Ph.D., Japanese Literature, Yale University, 1985 M.A., Japanese Literature, Yale University, 1979 B.A., History, Yale College, 1974

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

• East Asian Studies

Related Countries:

• Japan

Research/Teaching Specialization: Modern Japanese literature, particularly of the Meiji and Taisho periods; interrelationships between texts and social contexts.

Publications:

• Class and Gender in a Meiji Family Romance: Kikuchi Yuho's Chikyodai. Summer 2002.
• The Family and the Nation in Tokutomi Roka's Hototogisu. December 2000.
• Prefacing 'Sorrows of a Heretic', in A Tanizaki Feast.
• Tanizaki Jun'ichiro. 1997.
• Writing Time in Soseki's Kokoro. 1997.
• Itansha no kanashimi' no hashigaki. 1997.
• Visions of Desire: Tanizaki's Fictional Worlds. 1991.