Jean Yamasaki Toyama

The Author: Scholar, poet, and short story writer, Jean Yamasaki Toyama received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Irvine in 1975. She has published many articles on French literature, most recently on issues of comparative literature pertaining to French and Japanese. Her book of poems, Marked Female , and another volume of essays she co-edited, Literary Relations East and West , will appear soon. She currently teaches French literature and language at the University of Hawaii at...See more

The Author: Scholar, poet, and short story writer, Jean Yamasaki Toyama received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Irvine in 1975. She has published many articles on French literature, most recently on issues of comparative literature pertaining to French and Japanese. Her book of poems, Marked Female , and another volume of essays she co-edited, Literary Relations East and West , will appear soon. She currently teaches French literature and language at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where she has received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the College of Language, Linguistics and Literature. See less