Jonathan Zwicker
Vitae
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan, 2005-Present
Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, 2002-2005EDUCATION
Ph.D., Modern Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 2002
M.A., Modern Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 1997
B.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 1995FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Rackham Faculty Fellowship, University of Michigan, summer 2006
Rackham Faculty Grant, University of Michigan, summer 2006
Faculty Associates for Multicultural Teaching Innovations, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, University of Michigan, 2005-6
Japan Foundation Short Term Research Fellowship, 2004
Association for Asian Studies Northeast Asian Council Korean Studies Grant, 2003
Center for Japanese Studies Faculty Research Grant, University of Michigan , 2003
Michigan Society of Fellows, Postdoctoral Fellow 2002-2005
Hosei International Fund, Hosei University , summer 2002
Itoh Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2001-2002
Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001
Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C. , Grant-in-aid to
participate in 'Puzzling Evidence Colloquium', 1999-2000
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship, Korea , summer 1997
Jacob Javits Fellowship in the Humanities, 1997-2002
President's Fellowship, Columbia University, 1996-1997
Fulbright Fellowship, Japan, 1995-1996
Taraknath Das Prize in Asian Studies, Columbia University, 1995
Phi Beta Kappa, 1995
B.A. magna cum laude, Departmental Honors, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, 1995
PUBLICATIONS
BOOK
Practices of the Sentimental Imagination: Melodrama, the Novel, and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-century Japan forthcoming Harvard Asia Center, fall 2006WORK IN PROGRESS
Stage and Spectacle in an Age of Print: Drama and Cultural Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Edo [book project]
BOOK CHAPTERS
'The Long Nineteenth-Century of the Japanese Novel' in The Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2006) ed. Franco Moretti et al. [Originally published as 'Il lungo Ottocento del romanzo giapponese' in vol. 3 Storia e geografia,, pp. 441-447, Il romanzo 5 vols. (Turin: Einaudi, 2002), ed. Franco Moretti et al. pp.441-477]
'Statistics of the Novel: Japan 1850-1900' in The Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2006) ed. Franco Moretti et al. [Originally published as 'Le cifre del romanzo: Giappone 1850-1900' in vol. 3 Storia e geografia, pp. 379-388, Il romanzo 5 vols. (Turin: Einaudi, 2002), ed. Franco Moretti et al. pp.379-388]
BOOK REVIEWS
'Understanding Modern Japan' [Book Review of Christopher Benfey's The Great Wave and Ian Buruma's Inventing Japan, 1853-1964], Michigan Quarterly Review, vol. XLIII, no.2 Spring 2004
CONFERENCE PAPERS"Individuality in an Age of Reproduction," 11th Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, Vienna University, September 2, 2005
"Playbills, Ephemera, and the Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis October 2, 2004
"Commodities of the Imagination: Translation and the Literary Market, Japan c. 1900," American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 16, 2004
"Commodities of the Imagination: Translation and the Literary Market, Japan c. 1900," Translation Matters: East Asian Literatures in Transnational Perspective, Columbia University, New York, New York, March 26, 2004
"Stage and Spectacle in an Age of Tears: Melodrama and Cultural Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Edo," Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego California, March 5, 2004
"In Search of the Japanese Novel in Nineteenth-Century America: Book History and the New Literary Hermeneutics," Hermeneutical Strategies: Methods of Interpretation in the Study of Japanese Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, November 23, 2003
"Puzzling evidence: clues, detection and the scientific mind in the nineteenth-century Japanese novel," Relationships between Science and Literature in the East and the West: an International Seminar, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Florence, Italy, March 29, 2003
"'If you don't read the plot, what else is left?': Reading the Chinese Novel in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Modern Japan History Workshop, Waseda University, Tokyo, October 26, 2001
"Boredom, Tears, and the Pleasures of Reading in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Asian Studies Conference Japan, Sophia University, Tokyo, June 24, 2001
"Statistics and the Rise of the Novel in Japan, 1850-1900," Statistics and the Rise of the Novel: Quantatative Evidence and Literary History, Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University, March 2001
"'Commodities of the Imagination': the Translation Industry and the Literary Market in Meiji Japan," The Twelfth Ph.D. Kenkyukai Conference, International House, Tokyo, October 2, 2000
"'Robinson Crusoe Stories': Translation, the Novel, and the Literary Market in Nineteenth-Century Japan," Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, California March 9, 2000