James Reichert

Associate Professor, Modern Japanese Literature
Curriculum Vitae

reichert@leland.stanford.edu

Research Area:
Modern Japanese Literature, Representations of Sexuality, Japanese Literary Criticism.

Prof. Reichert's field of specialization is Meiji-Taishô literature. He is especially interested in looking at the way that male-male sexuality is represented in literary texts from this period. His dissertation examines the treatment of male sexuality found in such works as Okamoto Kisen's Sawamura Tanosuke akebono zôshi (1880), Yamada Bimyô's Shintaishika Wakashu sugata (1886), Natsume Sôseki's Nowaki (1907) and Mori Ogai's Vita Sexualis (1909). Prof. Reichert is currently working on an article about the aesthetics of decadence and perversion found in the work of mystery writer Edogawa Ranpo.

Selected Publications:
"Sôseki Nowaki ni okeru otoko-dôshi no aijô no imi." Bungaku, vol. 6, no. 1 (1995).

Courses Taught:
JAPANGEN 115/215: History of Japanese Popular Culture
JAPANGEN 138/238: Survey of Modern Japanese Literature in
Translation
JAPANGEN 187: Romance, Desire, and Sexuality in Modern Japanese Literature
JAPANLIT 247: Readings in Premodern Japanese
JAPANLIT 395: Early Modern Japanese Literature
J 296: Late-Meiji Fiction (Winter 1997)
J 296: Taishô-Period Popular Literature (Winter 1998)
J 296: Contemporary Japanese Fiction (Winter 1999)
J 396: Early-Meiji Literature and Criticism (Fall 1997)
J 396: Postwar Japanese Women Writers (Fall 1998)
J 396: Ozaki Kôyô, Kôda Rohan, and Higuchi Ichiyô (Fall 1999)