Adjunct Instructor
Areas of Expertise: Japanese literature and film
Academic Degrees
Harvard University, Ph.D., East Asian Languages, 1979 Sophia University (Tokyo), M.A., Japanese Literature, 1973 University of Michigan, English Literature, 1965
Islands of Protest: Japanese Literature from Okinawa (University of Hawaii Press, 2016)
Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa (University of Hawaii Press, 2000)
Okinawa: Two Postwar Novellas (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989, Reprinted 1996)
Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan,
1998)
The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2012)