Indra Levy

Assistant Professor

ilevy@stanford.edu

Research Area:
Current work examines the nexus of Westernesque women,
translation, and modern vernacular literary style in Meiji fiction and
theater as a key index of how Japanese writers responded to the exotic
difference of modern Western literature.

Another area of interest is the life and work of the socialist-feminist
critic Yamakawa Kikue.

Selected Publications:
"Against Essentialism: the Status of Difference in the Critical Writings of
Yamakawa Kikue." In Janice Brown and Sonja Arntzen, eds. Across Time
and Genre: Reading and Writing Japanese Women's Texts, 2002, 130-35.

"The Anxiety of Translation: Interlingual Seduction and Betrayal in
Futabatei Shimei's Ukigumo." Proceedings of the Association for Japanese
Literary Studies, Fall 2001 Vol. 7: 47-60.

Courses Taught:

JAPANGEN 92 Traditional East Asian Civilization: Japan;
JAPANGEN 148/248 Modern Japanese Narratives: Literature and Film
JAPANLIT 296 Readings in Modern Japanese Literature