East Asian Languages and Literatures Faculty
 

John Treat

Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures
E-mail: john.treat@yale.edu

 

 Education: B.A, Amherst College, 1975
          M.A., Yale University, 1979

          Ph.D., East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University, 1982

Area of Specialization: Modern Japanese fiction and criticism, literary history, popular culture, cultural studies, Korean-Japanese cultural relations in the modern period.
Year appointed:1999

 Languages: English, Japanese

 

 Important Publications:

Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture, ed. Curzon Press/University of Hawaii Press, 1996.
Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb,University of Chicago Press, 1995.
Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji,University of Washington Press, 1988.
Honors, scholarly activities:
  • 1998 Social Science Research Council Grant.
  • 1997 John Whitney Hall Prize.
  • 1994 NEH Summer Stipend.
  • 1996-97 Mary Weeks Senior Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Stanford University.
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Faculty East Asian Languages and Literatures