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Nicholas Albertson
Assistant Professor of Japanese
A.B. (East Asian Studies), Brown University
M.A. and Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), University of Chicago
Courses taught at vlog:
Previous teaching positions:
Poetry, gender, ecocriticism, translation
Peer-Reviewed Research Articles
“Supernatural Longing in Yamakawa Tomiko’s Tanka”
Japanese Studies, vol. 39, no. 1 (2019): 43–56
https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2019.1588690
“Legendary Heroines for the Meiji Era”
Southeast Review of Asian Studies, vol. 38 (2016): 1–16
http://www.asia-studies.com/2seras16.html
“TԲ Kami: Yosano Akiko’s Supernatural Symbolism”
U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal, no. 47 (Dec. 2014): 28–44
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/578912
Literary Translations
“Koigoromo (Robe of Love) Part 2: A Translation of Masuda Masako’s ‘Complete Devotion’”
second part of book-length poetry collection, 1905
U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal, no. 65 (2024): 75–108
https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2024.a922156
“Koigoromo (Robe of Love) Part 1: An Introduction and Translation of Yamakawa Tomiko’s ‘White Lily’”
first part of book-length poetry collection, 1905
U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal, no. 63/64 (2023): 53–97
https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2023.a903682
“A Portrait of Young Sangorō” (Hirata Sangorō Munetsugu), by Yamada Bimyō
story in verse from Portraits of Youths (Shōnen sugata), 1886
Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: Male Love, Intimacy and Erotics, 1886–2014
edited by Stephen D. Miller
University of Michigan Press (2022): 25–32
“Butterfly” (dzō), by Yamada Bimyō
short story, 1889
Review of Japanese Culture and Society, vol. 29 (2017): 320–333
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/728601
“Flower on a Grave” (Bojō no hana), by Doi Bansui
poem from Nature Has Feelings (Tenchi ujō), 1899
Transference, no. 1 (2013): 21–22
“Evening Bell” (Dzō), by Doi Bansui
poem from Nature Has Feelings (Tenchi ujō), 1899
Inventory, no. 3 (2012): 78–83
“Lament” (Aika), “Poet” (Shijin), “Untitled” (Mudai), by Doi Bansui
poems from Nature Has Feelings (Tenchi ujō), 1899
Inventory, no. 1 (2010): 76–80
Archie Fund for the Arts and Humanities, Wake Forest University
Toyota Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Chicago
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (three in Japanese, one in Chinese)