Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey                                 
New Brunswick, NJ  08901                                                                      
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Professor Janet Walker’s selected publications

Books: 

The Woman’s Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women’s Writing. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996. (co-editor with Paul Gordon Schalow)

The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. (author)

Chapters in Books:

"The Cinematic Art of Higuchi Ichiyō’s ‘Takekurabe’ (Comparing Heights, 1895-1896).” In Word and Image in Japanese Cinema. Ed. Dennis Washburn and Carole Cavanaugh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 36-58.

“Visiting Flower Meisho (Famous Places) and the Negotiation of Cultural Identity in Texts by Futabatei Shimei and Nagai Kafū.” In Canon and Identity: Japanese Modernization Reconsidered: Trans-Cultural Perspectives. Ed. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit. Tokyo: Deutsches Institut für Japanstudien, 2000. 77-105.

“The Tenor of Part I of Shiga Naoya’s A Dark Night’s Passing: A Naturalist Quest for the Sexual Self.” In Shiga Naoya’s “A Dark Night’s Passing.” Ed. Kinya Tsuruta. Singapore: Department of Japanese Studies, National University of Singapore, 1996. 157-196. (also published in Japanese translation)

“The Russian Role in the Creation of the First Japanese Novel: Futabatei Shimei’s Ukigumo (The Floating Cloud, 1886-1889).” In A Hidden Fire: Russian and Japanese Cultural Encounters 1868-1926. Ed. J. Thomas Rimer. Stanford: Stanford University Press and Washington, D.C. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995. 22-37. (also published in Japanese translation)

“Reading Genres Across Cultures: The Example of Autobiography.” In Reading World Literature: Theory, History, Practice. Ed. Sarah H. Lawall. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994. 203-235.

Journal Articles:

“Van Gogh, Collector of ‘Japan.’” The Comparatist Vol. 32 (May 2008): 82-114.

“The Epiphanic Ending of Shiga Naoya’s An’ya kōro (A Dark Night’s Passing, 1921-1937) in a Modernist Context.” Japanese Language and Literature 37.2 (October 2003): 167-193.

“On the Applicability of the Term ‘Novel’ to Modern Non-Western Long Fiction.” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 17 (1988): 47-68.

“Poetic Ideal and Fictional Reality in the Izumi Shikibu nikki.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 37 (1977): 135-182.

Review article:

“The True Story of the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel.” [on Jonathan E. Zwicker, Practices of the Sentimental Imagination: Melodrama the Novel, and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Japan] Modern Philology 106 (August 2008): 128-141.

Fellowships and Awards:

School of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education, Rutgers University 2012

Guest Researcher, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Free University Berlin, May-July 2010

Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001 and 1982

Japan Foundation Short-Term Fellowship, Spring 1983