Faculty Notes

Sumie Jones (EALC/Comp. Lit.) authored a paper titled, "Miegakuresuru Genda: Nanshoku Bungaku to Kyokai" (Gender Seen and Unseen: Male Homoeroticism at the Borders), for Rikkyo University Japan Studies Center Annual, No. 2, March 2003. She is the co-editor of Japanese Rare Books in the Library of Congress (Tokyo: Yagi Shoten, 2003). She also continues to work on the NEH project. In May, she will begin working with the co-editors to plan volume one (the last volume to be edited) of the anthology of Edo and Meiji literature. Professor Jones presented a paper titled "Toward a Gentle Castration: Matsuura Rieko's Progress Beyond Gender," at the conference, "Women's Sexualities: Historical, Interdisciplinary, and International Perspectives," at Indiana University in November 2003. In March 2004, she acted as discussant for the panel, "Transcultural History of Food and Eating," at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego. For the up-coming congress of the International Comparative Literature Association in August 2004 in Hong Kong, she has co-organized a workshop on literary translation, which consists of 5 panels and a concluding session. She will chair one of the panels and will present a paper, "Against Translation: The Rise of Hermeneutics in Early Modern Japan," in another.

Scott O'Bryan (EALC/Hist) presented the paper, "Public Economists and the Environmental Movement in Japan: The Club of Rome, Population, and the Fetish of GNP," at the Annual Conference of the American Society for Environmental History, which met in Victoria, British Columbia, March 31-April 3.

Richard Rubinger (EALC) has written a chapter on "Meiji Education" will be included in the revised edition of Sources of Japanese Tradition to be published at the end of this year. Jurgis Elisonas also has a chapter in that revised edition.

Natsuko Tsujimura (EALC/Linguistics) was invited to give the talk, "Re-examining the Linguistic Relevance of Mimetics," at University of Auckland, New Zealand, on March 17, 2004. She also presented a paper entitled "The Linguistic Relevance of Mimetics and Its Pedagogical Implication" at the Fourth International Conference on Practical Linguistics of Japanese held at San Francisco State University on April 3-4. She was awarded a Japan-United States Friendship Commission grant through the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. This grant will enable her to conduct her ongoing research to investigate the linguistic relevance of mimetics in Japanese.

Steven Raymer (School of Journalism) co-organized a 90-minute videoconference for his J414 International Newsgathering class on Wednesday, February 18. The students were able to talk with 15 Chinese journalists in Beijing. Raymer co-organized the event along with the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. For more information, click here: http://www.journalism.indiana.edu/news/030304beijing/index.html

Yasuko Ito Watt (EALC) was invited to present a talk on "Training Teaching Assistants in a Large University" at the meeting of the Professional Development Special Interest Group of the Association of Teachers of Japanese, which was held at the University of California, San Diego, on March 5, 2004 in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.

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