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Kirsten Cather

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Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Contact

E-mail:
Phone: 512-471-0031
Office: WCH 5.104B
Office Hours: SPRING 2012 (Tu/Th. 12:30 - 1:45 p.m. or Fri. by appointment)
Campus Mail Code: G9300

Interests

Censorship of literature and film in modern Japan, modern adaptations of premodern Japanese literature, suicide and death in modern Japan.

Biography

Courses taught:

Lower-Division: “Introduction to Japanese Film” (ANS 301M); “Introduction to Japan” (ANS 302J).

Upper-Division: “Modern Japanese Literature in Translation” (ANS 361); “From Genji to Godzilla: Adaptations of the Japanese Classics” (ANS 320), “Suicide in Japanese Fiction” (ANS 361; Substantial Writing Component).

Graduate: “Japanese Literature, Criticism, and Theory,” (ANS 383/JPN 384), “Readings in Japanese Literature“ (JPN 384), “Readings in Japanese: 20th Century Intellectuals” (JPN 384), “The Practice and Theory of Censorship” (ANS 390/CL 382), “Reading Japanese Literature in Japanese” (JPN 384/JPN 330).

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