Professors Information

KONO Shion
河野 至恩

Professor
Comparative Literature / Modern Japanese Literature

B.A., Bowdoin College
M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Research and Teaching Interests:

I have written on a wide range of topics in comparative literature and modern Japanese literature. My earlier research mainly focused on the author Mori Ōgai, and I have examined Mori Ōgai’s historical fiction as well as his engagement with German-language books. I have also investigated literary travels, as a genre, a theme, and as actual movements of authors and texts. More recently, I have translated and written on contemporary Japanese criticism (hihyō) since the 1990s, especially on the critical discourses on popular culture. I have also been interested in the question of reading Japanese literature as world literature.

At Sophia, I teach courses in comparative literature, including courses on contemporary literature, cultural encounters and literature, and literature and film. I also teach a Core course on critical thinking.

Email: s-kono[at]sophia.ac.jp
Website:http://shionkono.wordpress.com/about/
http://sophia.academia.edu/shionkono
Office: 10-637

Selected Publications

Books

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • Kono, Shion. “A Travelogue of a ‘Round-the-World Trip’ on Tokyo Asahi Shimbun: Newspaper Media at the late Meiji Period and the Experience Abroad.” PAJLS Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies 8 (2007): 212-221.

COURSES

Faculty of Liberal Arts

Course No.                              Title
LIT201 LITERARY GENRES
LIT300 WESTERN LITERATURE
LIT324 LITERATURE AND FILM
LIT352 WORLD LITERATURE: A LITERARY JOURNEY
LIT470 SEMINAR IN WORLD LITERATURE

Graduate Program in Global Studies

Course No.                              Title
JS546Z INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE STUDIES
JS518Z COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1
JS519Z COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 2
JS724Z ADVANCED STUDIES IN INTRODUCTION TO JAPANESE STUDIES
JS716Z ADVANCED STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 1
JS717Z ADVANCED STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE 2

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