Brett de Bary's current areas of research are: post-modern criticism, Japanese film, translation of Karatani Kojin, subjectivity
in early postware Japanese literature, and the construction of the body in Meiji poetry and naturalist fiction.
Associate Editor, TRACES: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation.
Publications:
Deconstructing Nationality, ed. by Brett de Bary, Iyotani Toshio, and Naoki Sakai. Cornell University East Asia Series.
“Gender Politics and Feminism,” forthcoming in Sources of Japanese Tradition, Second Edition, Volume Two, ed., Wm. Theodore de Bary, Carol Gluck, and Marius Jansen (New York: Columbia University Press).
“The Vanishing Non-Narrator: the Transformation of Sensibility in Futabatei Shimei,” in Transformations of Sensibility: the Phenomenology of Meiji Literature, by Hideo Kamei, English translation edited by Michael Bourdaghs (Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, Michigan Monograph Series , 2003.)
