Associate Professor
Nanyan GUO
Education:
- 1984
- B.A., Fudan University, China
- 1988
- M.A., Ochanomizu University
- 1996
- Ph.D., Ochanomizu University
Professional Experience:
- 2008 - present
- Associate Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
- 2006 - 2008
- Associate Professor, University of Otago, New Zealand
- 2001 - 2005
- Senior Lecturer, University of Otago
- 1993 - 2000
- Lecturer, University of Otago
Specialized Fields:
Modern Japanese Literature, Environmental Culture
Current Research Themes:
Literatures of Shiga Naoya, Endō Shūsaku, and Osabe Hideo,
Ogasawara Islands’ environment
Keywords for Research:
Nature, supernature, folklore, popular culture, Japanese-Sino exchanges, natural and cultural diversity
Major publications:
Books
- 2011
- Ecstasy and Agony: the Experiences of Non-Japanese Writers of Japanese Literature (Japanese Studies around the World 2010) (ed.), NICHIBUNKEN
- 2010
- Japan’s Wartime Medical Atrocities: Comparative inquiries in science, history, and ethics (co-ed.), Routledge
- 2007
- Shūenchiiki no jiko ninshiki: Tsugaru to Otago no chishijin wo chûshin ni (Tsugaru and Otago: Periphery in Intellectuals' Consciousness) (ed.), Hirosaki University Press.
- 2005
- Ogasawara shotō, Ajia-Taiheiyō kara mita kankyō bunka (The Environmental Culture of Ogasawara Islands from the Perspective of the Asia-Pacific Region) (co-ed.), Heibonsha.
- Tsugaru: Regional Identity on Japan’s Northern Periphery (co-author), University of Otago Press.
Academic Society Membership
- Association for Asian Studies, Michigan, USA
- Kokubun gakkai of Ochanomizu University
- Ogasawara Wildlife Research Society
- New Zealand Asian Studies Society
