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Hosea Hirata
Department Chair
Professor of Japanese Program
Director of Film Studies Minor (CMS)
Acting Director of Arabic Program, Arabic Language and Literature

Education
B.A., McGill University; Major, English Literature (1979)
MFA, University of British Columbia; Creative Writing (1981)
PhD., University of British Columbia; Comparative Literature (1987)

Research Interests
Modern Japanese Literature, fiction, poetry, criticism. Literary and Film theory. Postmodernism. Avant-garde art. Experimental film.

Biography
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Major Publications

Books

• The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo: Modernism in Translation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993
• Discourses of Seduction: History, Evil, Desire, and Modern Japanese Literature. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Journal Articles

• "Created hibakusha poet Araki Yasusada: Does poetry require truth?" in Plagiarism, Imitation, Originality: Questioning the Imagination of Japanese Literature. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Japanese Literature, Nov. 2003 (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 2004), 155-168.
• "Dear Yasusada-san," Also, With My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: Araki Yasusada’s Letters in English, by Tosa Motokiyu, eds. Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez (Cumberland, RI: Combo Books, 2005), 50 – 53.
• "Nostalgia for the real: The poetic discourse surrounding the Araki Yasusada hoax," Modern Japanese Literature (Nihon Kindai Bungaku) no.70 (May 15, 2004): 187-196.
• "The poetry of Nishiwaki Junzaburo and translation." Gengo bunka 19, (March 2003), 79-87.