Ted Mack

Professor
Undergraduate Education Committee Chair
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GWN 248
Office Hours
Not teaching WI25, by appointment only

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

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