Michael Brownstein

Michael Brownstein received his PhD in Japanese literature from Columbia University in 1981 for his dissertation on Kitamura Tokoku. He is Associate Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches courses on Japanese literature and culture. He has published essays on modern Japanese literature as well as translations of several modern Japanese short stories. His two most recent publication are "The 'Devil' in the...See more

Michael Brownstein received his PhD in Japanese literature from Columbia University in 1981 for his dissertation on Kitamura Tokoku. He is Associate Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches courses on Japanese literature and culture. He has published essays on modern Japanese literature as well as translations of several modern Japanese short stories. His two most recent publication are "The 'Devil' in the Heart: Enchi Fumiko's Masks and the Uncanny" in The Journal of Japanese Studies (2014) and "Sedge-hat Madness: A Translation of Chikamatsu Monzaemon's 'Onatsu Seijuro Gojunenki Uta Nenbutsu'" in Monumenta Nipponica (2016). He is currently writing a monograph on the domestic plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1724), and his translation of Kanadehon Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, 1748) is under review at Hackett Publishing Company. See less