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Jeffrey Angles
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Education
B.A. International Studies & Japanese, The Ohio State University, 1993
M.A. Japanese Literature, The Ohio State University, 1997
Research, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Kyoto), 2000-2002
Ph.D. Japanese Literature, The Ohio State University, 2004
Background
Dr. Angles’ lifelong interest in Japan and Japanese literature began when he went to Yamaguchi Prefecture in southwestern Japan as a fifteen-year old exchange student. Since then, he has gone to Japan multiple times, spending several years working and studying in various cities, including Saitama City, Kobe, and Kyoto.
Teaching
Dr. Angles is the director of the Japanese language program, and the principal contact for students wishing to study abroad in Japan. In addition to Japanese language courses, he teaches courses on comparative and Japanese literature, comparative literature, and translation theory.
Research
Much of Dr. Angles’ work has focused on expressions of ideology within twentieth-century popular literature and film from Japan, especially of the modernist era. He earned his Ph.D. with a study of representations of same-sex desire in the literature of the interwar period, and his book manuscript on the subject is currently under review.
Other current research interests have to do with the ways that literary translation in Japan has spurred literary development both inside and outside of Japan. the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Japan has been invited him to come as a visiting professor in 2009-2010 to conduct a major research project on the cultural history of translation. Recently, Dr. Angles won a major grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support his current translation project: the memoirs of the Japanese author Takahashi Mutsuo about his youth and sexual coming of age during World War II.
Books
- Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion , co-edited with J. Thomas Rimer ( Berkeley: Whereabouts Press, 2006).
Translations
- From a Woman of a Distant Land: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako ( Berkeley: University of California Press, Forthcoming).
- A Map Marked in a Foreign Tongue: Poems by Itō Hiromi ( South Bend, IN: Action Books, Forthcoming).
Dr. Angles has published many other translations in other anthologies, including the following.
- Modanizumu: An Anthology of Japanese Modernist Prose, ed. William J. Tyler ( Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008).
- Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond , ed. Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar (NY: W.W. Norton, 2008).
- Japan: A Traveler's Literary Companion , ed. Jeffrey Angles and J. Thomas Rimer ( Berkeley: Whereabouts Press, 2006)
- The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, Volume 1: From Restoration to Occupation, 1868-1945, ed. J. Thomas Rimer and Van Gessel (NY: Columbia University Press, 2005).
For a more complete account of Dr. Angles’ classes, articles, translations, and research activities, please visit his personal webpage.
