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Charles Shiro Inouye
Professor of Japanese Program
Director of International Letters and Visual Studies

Education
B.A., Stanford University (1978)
M.A., Kobe Daigaku (1982)
Ph.D., Harvard University (1988)

Research Interests
Premodern and modern Japanese literature, especially fiction and the role of visuality in the development of modern consciousness.

Biography
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Visit Professor Inouye's website on Japanese Visual Culture.

Major Publications

• In Light of Shadows: More Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka (University of Hawaii Press, 2004)
• Japanese Gothic Tales by Izumi Kyoka (University of Hawaii Press, 1996)
• The Similitude of Blossoms -- a Critical Biography of Izumi Kyoka, Japanese Playwright and Novelist (Harvard University Press, 1998)
• "Picture Modern Japan: a Semiotic Analysis of the Meiji Slogan," New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan: Proceedings of the Harvard Meiji Conference (E.J.Brill)
• "In the Scopic Regime of Discovery: Ishikawa Takuboku's Diary in Roman Script and the Gendered Premise of Self Identity," positions: East Asian Cultures Critique 2:3, 1994