CHRISTOPHER L. HILL

Assistant Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Tel. (203)-432-2867; e-mail chris.hill@yale.edu

EDUCATION Ph.D, Columbia University, with distinction, 1999

                                    Japanese and Comparative Literature

M.A., Columbia University, 1992

Comparative Literature

B.A., Stanford University with highest honors, 1986

English and American Literature

RESEARCH AND Modern Japanese literature; Tokugawa-era (1600-1868) literature and print culture;

TEACHING the novel in comparative perspective; naturalism; intra-Asian and Asian-European

INTERESTS intellectual exchange; historiography and historical narrative; nationalism; history

of social thought; sociology of genre; narrative theory; urban culture; history of

publishing and printing.

COURSES TAUGHT Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Margins; Literature, Culture, and Thought in

Modern Japan; Readings in Contemporary Media and Literature

PUBLICATIONS "Mori Ôgai's Resentful Narrator: Trauma and the National Subject in 'The Dancing

Girl," Positions 10:2 (autumn 2002).

"National Histories and World Systems: Writing Japan, France, the United States,"

Turning Points in Historiography: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, ed. Q. Edward

Wang and Georg G. Iggers (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2002).

"Ideologies of Novelty and Agedness: Narrating the Origins of the Meiji Nation,"

New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan, ed. Helen Hardacre and Adam L.

Kern (Leiden, New York, and Köln: Brill, 1997).

"Fashizumu to hyôshô no shutai--Maruyama, Adoruno, yûtopia [Fascism and the

Subject of Representation: Maruyama, Adorno, Utopia]," trans. Takeuchi

Takahiro, Hihyô kûkan (Tokyo) II: 4 (Jan. 1995).

Review of Complicit Fictions: The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose

Narrative by James A. Fujii, MFS 40:1 (Dec. 1994).

FELLOWSHIPS         Griswold Faculty Research Grant, 2002

AND AWARDS Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard

University, 1999

Jacob Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1994-99

Columbia Traveling Fellowship, for research in Paris, 1996

Japan Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship, for research in Tokyo, 1995

Weatherhead Fellowship, Columbia University, 1993

Robert Bennett Award, Columbia University, for master's thesis, 1992

Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1991-93