Professor
Undergraduate Education Committee Chair
Biography
Ph.D. Modern Japanese Literature, Harvard University, 2002
M.A. Modern Japanese Literature, Columbia University, 1996
B.A. History, University of Texas, Austin, 1990
Research interests: Modern Japanese-language prose; art and capitalism; the flow of literary works throughout the larger Japanese linguistic community; the function of power in the literary field; and theories of diaspora and heterogeneity, particularly as they challenge culturalist concepts of national identity.
Current Research Projects: The function of Japanese-language literature outside the nation-state, focusing on the production and consumption of literary texts from both within and without Japan in Brazil and the United States.
Awards and Honors
MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies (2023) Outstanding scholarly work in the field of East Asian (or East Asian diaspora) literary or linguistic studies
Research
Selected Research
- Mack, E. 2022. Acquired Alterity: Migration, Identity, and Literary Nationalism. California: University of California Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.116
- Editor, Beikoku Kashū Kyōiku-kyoku kentei Nihongo tokuhon (reproduction of the textbook series produced in California from 1924-39), 16 vols. (Tokyo: Bunsei Shoin, 2014).
- Ted Mack. Shiatoru-ban Nihongo tokuhon. Tokyo: Bunsei Shoin, 2012.
- Ted Mack. Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010.
- Ted Mack. "The Industrialization of Literary Publishing in Japan." Books in Numbers, ed. Idema Wilt. Boston: Harvard Yenching Library, Harvard University, 2007.
- Ted Mack. "Japanese poetry of Yi Sang; A Collection of Poems." The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry, ed. David McCann. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004.
- Ted Mack. "Marketing Japanese Classics in its 1930s Colonies." Books and Empire, a special issue of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin 28:1/2. 2004.
- Ted Mack. "Accounting for Taste: The Creation of the Akutagawa and Naoki Prizes for Literature." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 64:2 (2004).
Courses Taught
Autumn 2025
Summer 2025
Autumn 2024
Summer 2024
Winter 2024
Autumn 2023
Summer 2023
Winter 2023
Autumn 2022
Summer 2022
Winter 2022
Autumn 2021
Summer 2021
Spring 2021
Winter 2021
Autumn 2020
Summer 2020
Spring 2020
Winter 2020
Autumn 2019
Summer 2019
Spring 2019
Winter 2019
Autumn 2018
Summer 2018
Spring 2018
Winter 2018
Additional Courses
HONORS 210 B: Japanese-Language Literature in the Americas
Resources & Related Links
Affiliations
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