I have taught a variety of courses over the past fifteen years from Beginning Japanese Language to Advanced Seminars in Japanese Literature.  For the last few years I have taught the following courses:
 

EAST ASIA 226C(Q) Japanese Civilization

An overview of Japanese cultural history, focusing on the interplay of crucial aspects of  contemporary Japanese
society and Japanese social psychology.
Required of East Asian Studies Majors.  Spring 1997, Fall 1998, 1999
 

ANELL 200 Women Writers of the Near and Far East

 A comparative exploration of women's writing in Japan, Israel, and Iran.  This is a team-
 taught course, newly devised.  It is the first course at Washington University under the
 ANELL Departmental heading.  Fall 1999
 

JAPAN 332C(Q) The Classical Voice in Japanese Literature

Survey of the major genres of Japanese literature from the perspectives of traditional  ideologies and comparative
literatures, covers antiquity to 1600.  Required of all majors  Taught Fall 1992; 1993; 1994; 1996; Spring 1998
Crosslisted with East Asian Studies
 

JAPAN 336 The Floating World in Japanese Literature

This survey of Japanese literature is the second in a noncontingent series and covers the 17th to the 19th century.
Primary focus will be on the Genroku era (1688-1703) which witnessed the growth of lively urban centers and the
emergence of a robust literary voice.  Emphasis on the ideological and cultural contexts for the development of a
variety of new innovations in the genres of poetry (haiku), theater (kabuki and bunraku) and prose (kana zôshi).
Required of all Japanese majors and recommended for Chinese majors. Taught Spring 2001. Crosslisted with East Asian Studies.
 

JAPAN 409 Correlations Between East and West

A comparative literature course, the topic of which changes from year to year.
Team Taught with two senior colleagues Spring 1992
Crosslisted with Comparative Literature.
 

JAPAN 445 Japanese Fiction: Demonic Women and Modern Literary Strategies

Topics for this course change periodically.  Most recently the course examined the way the trope of the demonic woman has been used as a discrete literary strategy to either bolster or defy the "modern, phallic, national subject." Among the authors considered will be Izumi Kyôka, Kawabata Yasunari, Enchi Fumiko, Oba Minako, and Nakagami Kenji.  All readings will be in English translations. Taught Spring 2001.
 

JAPAN 446 Japanese Theater

An investigation (in English) of the major developments and forms of the Japanese theater,  from Noh to Takarazuka.  Focus is placed on the ways dramatic texts borrowed from the  literary tradition as well as the ways modern fiction borrows from the earlier dramatic  tradition. Taught Fall 1995, 1996; Spring 2000
Crosslisted with East Asian Studies
 

JAPAN 449 Modern Japanese Women Writers:  Madame Butterfly's Delinquent Daughters

This course examines the various manifestations of the female image in female-authored modern Japanese fiction.
Writers to be considered are Higuchi Ichiyô, Hirabayashi Taiko, Uno Chiyo, Enchi Fumiko, Yamada Eimi, and others. A selection of novels and shorter fiction will be available in English translation and students need not be
familiar with Japanese.  Taught Fall 1991; Spring 1993; 1994; 1996; 1997; 1998; Fall 1999
Crosslisted with Women's Studies, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Studies
 

ART-ARCH 4491 The World of Genji

An in depth study of The Tale of Genji and its social-cultural context.
Taught Spring 1999
Crosslisted with East Asian Studies.
 

JAPAN 520 Practicum in Literary Translation

Designed to help graduate students of Japanese literature improve their translation skills.
Team taught under the direction of a Marvin Marcus Spring 1996, 1998
Crosslisted with East Asian Studies
 

JAPAN 561 Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature

Topics change from year to year.  Spring 1996: Orientalism and the Japanese Canon.
Texts by Tanizaki, Mishima and Kawabata were considered.  Spring 1999: The Shi-Shôsetsu.  Texts by
Tayama Katai, Shiga Naoya, Kasai Zenzô, Uno Chiyo, Nakagami Kenji
Crosslisted with East Asian Studies.