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
- Hiroki Azuma. Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals.Translated by Jonathan E. Abel and Shion Kono. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Book Chapters
- Kono, Shion.“Poppu Karuchaa gensetsu no shisa kara kangaeru” [Thinking from a parallax of pop culture discourses]. In Hiroki Azuma (ed.), Nihonteki Sōzōryoku no mirai [The Future of Japanese Imagination]. Tokyo: NHK Books, 2010: 259-79.
Journal Articles
- Kono, Shion.“The Rhetoric of Annotation in Mori Ōgai’s Historical Fiction and Shiden Biographies.” Journal of Japanese Studies, 32:2 (2006): 311-340.
- 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.
- Kono, Shion. Review of The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation by Thomas Lamarre, Monumenta Nipponica, 66:1 (2011): 205-07.
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 |