Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Education: Ph.D., Cornell University
Areas of Expertise
The impact of the atomic bomb experience on Japanese culture; Japanese anti-Semitism.
Biography
Ph.D., Cornell University. He is an expert on the impact of the atomic bomb experience on Japanese culture, studies, literature, theater, and Japanese intellectual history. He received a Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities awards to pursue research in Japan. He is fluent in Japanese and developed and teaches Asian Studies 238, \\\\\\\"Hiroshima/Nagasaki and the Literature of \\\\\\\'Survival.\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\"
Selected Publications
Articles or Book Chapters:
“Japan’s Nostalgic Avant-Garde,” in James Harding and John Rouse, eds., Not the Other Avant-Garde: On the Transnational Foundations of Avant-Garde Performance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
Eight entries, Japan section, Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, ed. Samuel L. Leiter Danbury, CT: Grolier.
“An Aesthetic of Destruction: Mishima Yukio’s My Friend Hitler” in Kevin Wetmore, ed., Burdened by Modernity. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
“The Quest for Salvation in Japan’s Modern History: Four Plays by Akimoto Matsuyo,” in David Jortner, et al. eds., Modern Japanese Theatre and Performance. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press.
Kishida Kunio, The Swing; Oguma Hideo, “Long, Long Autumn Nights,” trans. David G. Goodman, in J. Thomas Rimer and Van C. Gessel, eds., The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Vol. 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945. New York: Columbia University Press. Pp 621-626.
Antisemitism: Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio. "Fugu Plan" 1:250-251; "Japan" 1:364-366.
“The Protocols of Ultranationalism” (with Miyazawa Masanori), in Michael Weiner et al., eds., Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan, vol. 3. New York: Routledge. Pp. 299-324.
Sait_ Ren, Manhattan at Dawn, tr. David G. Goodman, in Half a Century of Japanese Theater, vol. VI. Edited by Japan Playwrights Association. Tokyo: Kinokuniya shoten. Pp. 335-410.
“Modern Japanese Dramatic Criticism,” Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre, ed. Samuel L. Leiter (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming). 2005 “Ky_sai no tanky_: Akimoto Matsuyo-ron,” Kiyo, no. 43 (2005), Japan Theatre Studies Association (Tokyo).
“Terrorism and Antisemitism in Japan.” Swords and Ploughshares: The Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security. XV:1 (Summer 2003). Pp. 14-16.
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