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John Whittier Treat is Professor Emeritus of East Asian Languages and Literature at

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, Connecticut,

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, where he teaches Japanese

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and

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. He was co-editor of the ''

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''. He has published numerous essays and several books on Japan-related topics. In 2008 he discussed his work with Peter Shea at the

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. He received his BA in Asian Studies 1975 from

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, Massachusetts, and his MA and

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in East Asian Languages and Literatures from

in 1979 and 1982, respectively. In 2011 he translated

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's short story, "Maybe Love" (사랑인가, 1909), which was then published in the journal ''Azalea'' by the

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Selected works

Nonfiction

* ''Pools of Water, Pillars of Fire: The Literature of Ibuse Masuji'' (1988) * ''Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture'' (1995) * ''Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb'' (1995) * ''Great Mirrors Shattered: Homosexuality, Orientalism, and Japan'' (1999) * ''The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature'' (2018)

Fiction

* ''The Rise and Fall of the Yellow House'' (2015) * ''Maid Service'' (2020) * ''First Consonants'' (2022)

Peer-reviewed articles

* “Early Hiroshima Poetry.” '' Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese'', vol. 20, no. 2 (November 1986), pp. 209-31. * “Atomic Bomb Literature and the Documentary Fallacy.” ''

'', vol. 14, no. 1 (Winter 1988), pp. 27-57. * “Hiroshima and the Place of the Narrator.” ''

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'', vol. 48, no. 1 (February 1989), pp. 29-49. * “Yoshimoto Banana Writes Home: Shōjo Culture and the Nostalgic Subject.” ''

'', vol. 19, no. 2 (Summer 1993), pp. 353-387. * “Symposium on Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture: Introduction.” ''

'', vol. 19, no. 2 (Summer 1993), pp. 289-93. * “The Beheaded Emperor and the Absent Figure in Contemporary Japanese Literature.” '' PMLA'', vol. 109, no. 1 (January 1994), pp. 100-15. * “Hiroshima, Ground Zero.” '' PMLA'', vol. 124, no. 5 (October 2009), pp. 1883-85. * “Introduction to Yi Kwang-su’s ‘Maybe Love’ (Ai ka, 1909).” ''Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature and Culture'', vol. 4 (2011), pp. 315-27. * “Choosing to Collaborate: Yi Kwang-su and the Moral Subject in Colonial Korea.” ''

'', vol. 71, no. 1 (February 2012), pp. 81-102.

Other published writing

* ''Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of

Edwin McClellan Edwin McClellan (24 October 1925 – 27 April 2009) was a British Japanologist, teacher, writer, translator, and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture. Biography McClellan was born in Kobe, Japan in 1925 to a Japanese mother, Teruko ...

'' with

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and Dennis Washburn, eds. Center for Japanese Studies,

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(1997).

Honors

*1998: Social Science Research Council Grant *1997:

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, 1997.John Whitney Hall Book Prize of the Association for Asian Studies, list
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*1994:

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Summer Stipend

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Living people Amherst College alumni Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Yale University faculty American Japanologists Japanese–English translators American translators Year of birth missing (living people) Japanese literature academics 21st-century American novelists {{US-translator-stub