Departments

• Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures
• Asian and Middle-Eastern Studies

Related Links

• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~damell/department/dorsey.html

Contact Information

Email: james.dorsey@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-1346
Office: 6191 Bartlett Hall

Education

B.A. Colgate University; M.A. Indiana University; Ph.D. University of Washington

Areas of Expertise

Japanese language and literature; literary theory and criticism; modern Japanese cultural history; Japanese culture during WW II; postwar popular music; theories of national and cultural identity; medieval Japanese drama; contemporary Japanese popular culture

Selected Works

• No More Hiroshima, Nagasaki, translation, K Kazuo and S Hiroyoshi (eds.) (2005).
• "A Personal View of Japanese Culture," annotated translation in The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature, T Rimer and V Gessel (eds.), (2005).
• "The Internet and Japanese Conceptions of Privacy," with M Mizutani and J H Moore, Ethics and Information Technology, 6:2 (June 2004) 121-128.
• "Culture, Nationalism, and Sakaguchi Ango," Journal of Japanese Studies, 27:2 (Summer 2001) 347-379.
• "Sakaguchi Ango," in Modern Japanese Writers, J Rubin (ed.), (2000) 31-48.

Current Projects

Critical Aesthetics: Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and the War; Literary Mischief: Sakaguchi Ango, Culture, and the War; 'Return to Japan': Imagined Nationalisms and Wartime Ideology; The Art of War: Literary, Journalistic, and Cinematic Responses to Pearl Harbor