FACULTY PROFILES: TOMI SUZUKI

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Tomi Suzuki, Associate Professor, specializes in Japanese and Comparative Literature.

Tomi Suzuki is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her B.A. (1974), and M.A. (1977), from the University of Tokyo, and her Ph.D. from Yale University (1988). She joined the faculty at Columbia in 1996. A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative fiction and criticism, her research interests include literary and cultural theory, particularly theories of narrative, genre and gender, modernism and modernity; modern Japanese thought; history of reading, canon formation, and literary histories.

Her publications include Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity (Stanford, 1996) and its Japanese edition, Katarareta jiko: Nihon kindai no shishōsetsu gensetsu (Iwanami Shoten, 2000), the Korean translation of which was published in 2004; Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature (Stanford, 2000, author and co-editor); Sōzōsareta koten: kanon keisei, kokumin kokka, Nihon bungaku (Shin'yōsha, 1999, author and co-editor), the Korean translation of which was published in 2002. She is currently completing a book manuscript on gender and literary modernism in Japan, investigating the formation of modern literary and cultural fields from the late 19th-century to the postwar period and examining modernist reconstruction of Japanese literary and linguistic traditions. Suzuki teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on modern Japanese literature and criticism, gender and genre in Japanese literature, and Asian humanities: major texts of East Asia as well as the modern East Asian literary texts.
 




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