Robert Goree Curriculum Vitae

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1 Robert Goree Curriculum Vitae Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures Green Hall & Pendleton West Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, MA tel: Tel: ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT Wellesley College, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures *Assistant Professor Boston University, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature *Visiting Instructor Spectacle in Early Modern East Asia: Cultures of Literature, Performance, and Visual Art (upcoming, 2014) Samurai on Screen: Historical Films in Japan (upcoming, 2014) Edo Popular Culture: Haiku, Kabuki, Manga (2013) Masterpieces of Japanese Literature (2013) Columbia University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures *Visiting Professor, New Faculty Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies Introduction to Japanese Civilization (2013) Colloquium on Early Modern Japan: Visual Culture and Encyclopedism, graduate seminar (2012) Colloquium in Asian Humanities: A Survey of Major East Asian Texts (2012) Samurai at Peace: The Culture of Early Modern Japan (2011) Maritime Law and Commerce in Early Modern Japan, graduate tutorial (2012) Harvard University, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies *Postdoctoral Fellow Myth to Manga: Pre-modern Japanese Literature and Its Modern Afterlife (2010) Yale University, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures *Teaching Fellow The Japanese Atomic Bomb in World Culture, Teaching Fellow (2006) Japanese History Since 1600, Teaching Fellow (2006) Elementary Japanese, Teaching Fellow (2007) Intermediate Japanese, Teaching Fellow (2007) 1

2 EDUCATION Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Ph.D., Japanese Literature and Culture, East Asian Languages and Literatures, 2010, Dissertation Title: Fantasies of the Real: Illustrated Gazetteers in Early Modern Japan M. Phil., East Asian Languages and Literatures, 2006 Examination Fields: Early Modern Japanese Literature, Modern Japanese Literature, Early Modern Japanese History M.A., East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Tokyo, Japan Research Student, Department of Comparative Literature and Culture Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Japan 10-Month Program in Advanced Japanese Columbia University, New York, NY M.A., Department of English and Comparative Literature Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA B.A., cum laude in English ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2007 Curatorial Assistant, Asian Art, Yale University Art Gallery Communications Practice Specialist, McKinsey & Company, Tokyo and Prague Assistant Editor, MLA International Bibliography, Modern Language Association, New York, NY FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS 2011 Teaching Excellence Award, Harvard University 2010 Marston Anderson Prize for Distinguished Dissertation, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University Yale University, Council on East Asian Studies Prize Fellowship, for dissertation research and writing Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship 2006 Yale University, Council on East Asian Studies Summer Travel & Research Grant for Komonjo Workshop, University of British Columbia 2005 Yale University, Council on East Asian Studies Summer Language Grant for Komonjo Workshop, Stanford University 2004 Yale University, Council on East Asian Studies Summer Language Grant for research in Japan 2004 Yale University, Beinecke Library Master s Seminar on scholarly editing 1999 Shoyu Club Fellowship, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies 2

3 LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS 2014 Invited Talk, Laudable Landscapes: Famous Places and the Japanese Tradition of Cultural Geography, Japan Society of New York (May) 2013 Invited Talk, Landmarks in Limbo: Illustrated Gazetteers and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan, Boston University (December) 2013 Invited Talk (in Japanese), Akisato Ritō s Hunt for Amida Buddha, Seminar on Historical Changes in Print and Publishing, Hitotsubashi University (June) 2013 Panel Presentation, Miyako meisho zue: Kyoto as Stage for Sectarian Buddhist Debate, Association of Asian Studies Conference, San Diego (March) 2013 Invited Talk, Kyoto as Paradise: Buddhism and Bias in an Eighteenth-century Illustrated Gazetteer, University Seminar on Japanese Culture, Columbia University (February) 2012 Lecture Discussant, Federico Marcon, Nature as Commodity: The Politics of Natural History in Satsuma in Early Modern Japan, Modern Japan Seminar, Columbia University (April) 2012 Panel Discussant, Cartographies of Early Modern Japan and China, Columbia Graduate Student Conference on East Asia (February) 2012 Invited Talk, Illustrated Gazetteers and Leisure Reading in Early Modern Japan, University of Southern California (January) 2012 Workshop Lecture, Japanese Fairy Tales, Japan Society, New York, NY (January) 2011 Invited Talk, Parody, Book History, and Kyokutei Bakin's Yakusha Meisho Zue, discussant, Greg Pflugfelder, Modern Japan Seminar, Columbia University (November) 2011 Panel Presentation, Translating Images of China in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Representations of China in Early Modern Japan, New England Association of Asian Studies (October) 2011 Invited Talk (in Japanese), Morokoshi meishō zue no sashie to Chūgoku, ( The Illustrations of Morokoshi Meishō Zue and China ), Symposium on the Premodern Japanese Collections at Yale University (October) 2011 Panel Discussant, Famous Places and Cultural Topography, Japanese Visual Culture: Performance, Media, and Text, Columbia University (September) 2011 Invited Talks, What Has China Meant for Japan? Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China, Beijing and Shanghai (August) 2011 Panel Presentation, Imagining China for the Popular Reader in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Japanese Visions of Self and Other, Visualizing Asia in the Modern World, Harvard University (May) 2011 Invited Talk, Meisho, Keywords in the History of Tokugawa Japan, Harvard University (May) 2011 Workshop Lecture, Edo Period Literature, Japan Society, New York, NY (May) 2011 Guest Lecture, Japanese Materials and Qing History, Research Methods in Late Imperial Chinese History (Qing Docs Seminar), Harvard University (April) 2011 Invited Talk, The Virtual Stage: Performance, Geography, and Takizawa Bakin's Yakusha Meisho Zue, Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan, University of Colorado, Boulder (March) 2011 Workshop Moderator, Colloquium on Japanese Woodblock-Printed Books, Harvard University, Cambridge (March) 2011 Invited Talk, Happy Trails: Reading Meisho Zue in Early Modern Japan, Fantastic Worlds and Imaginary Journeys In Japanese Visual Culture, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT (March) 2011 Panel Discussant, Japanese Body, Nation, and Society, Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Student Conference, Harvard University (February) 2011 Workshop Lecture, Edo Period Popular Culture, Japan Society, New York, NY 3

4 2010 Invited Talk, Illustrated Gazetteers and the Social Utility of Escapism in Early Modern Japan, Japan Forum, Harvard University (November) 2010 Panel Discussant, Experiencing the Illustrated Book in East Asia, organized by Miriam Wattles, Association of Asian Studies Conference, Philadelphia (May) 2010 Panel Presentation, Meisho as Poetry and Image in Late Edo Period Illustrated Gazetteers, for Naming Places/Placing Names: A Genealogy of Meisho in Japanese History ( ), Association of Asian Studies Conference, Philadelphia (May) 2009 Conference Presentation (in Japanese), Gayū e no izanai: meisho zue no shiten ni tsuite (Inducing Imaginary Travel: Perspective in Meisho Zue), 33 rd Annual International Conference on Japanese Literature, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo (November) 2009 Invited Talk (in Japanese), Meisho zue kaishaku no kanōsei: Akisato Ritō no ku no hataraki ni tsuite (Interpretive Possibilities for Meisho Zue: The Poetry of Akisato Ritō): Maps in History, IV: Culture and Politics, Historical Geography Symposium, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo (July) 2009 Poetry as Advertising: Waka and Meisho in Ōmi Meisho Zue, The Waka Workshop, Yale University (March) 2007 Invited Talk, Miyako Meisho Zue: A New Perspective, International Symposium on Competition and Collaboration in Edo Print Culture, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Madison, Wisconsin (November) 1997 Philosophical Pragmatism and Edith Wharton s The Reef, Northeast Conference of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia (May) PUBLICATIONS Fun with Moral Mapping in the Mid-19th Century, in Cartographic Japan, eds., Kären Wigen and Sugimoto Fumiko, Chicago University Press (forthcoming in late 2014) [book chapter] Review Article, Alisa Freedman, Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road, Stanford University Press, in Social Science Japan Journal. Vol (Winter 2012) Publishing Kabukiland: Late Edo Culture and Kyokutei Bakin s Yakusha Meisho Zue, in Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan, The Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder (August, 2011) [book chapter] Meisho zue kaishaku no kanōsei: Akisato Ritō no ku no hataraki ni tsuite (Interpretive Possibilities for Meisho Zue: The Poetry of Akisato Ritō) Tokyo Daigaku Shiryō Hensanjo Kenkyu Kiyō. (Journal of the Historiographical Society, University of Tokyo (2011) Gayū e no izanai: meisho zue no shiten ni tsuite, Kokusai Nihon Bungaku Kenkyū Shūkai Kaigiroku (Inviting Imaginary Travel: Perspective in Meisho Zue), National Institute of Japanese Literature (2010) TRANSLATIONS Sugimoto Fumiko. Current Events and Aerial Views: The World of Information in Bakumatsu Japan, Monumenta Nipponica (under review) Sugimoto Fumiko. Colors and Shapes for a Political World: The Representational Innovations of Kuniezu, in Cartographic Japan, eds., Kären Wigen and Sugimoto Fumiko, Chicago University Press (forthcoming in 2014) [book chapter] Sugimoto Fumiko. Drawing Boundaries around Sacred Space: Villagers, Priests, and Two Kinds of Rulers, in Cartographic Japan, eds., Kären Wigen and Sugimoto Fumiko, Chicago University Press (forthcoming in 2014) [book chapter] Robert Campbell, ed. J-Bungaku (J-Lit: Stories from New and Old Japan). No. 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, Tokyo: NHK Books, Published in tandem with television program. Seto Masato. Glass Boats, short story in Binran. Tokyo: Little More Books,

5 Laura J. Mueller, ed. Competition & Collaboration: Prints of the Utagawa School. Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, (poetry translations) SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS Competition Judge, Fitzgerald Translation Prize, Boston University Senior Thesis Advisor, Columbia University Member, Premodern Japanese Studies Member, Association of Teachers of Japanese Member, American Historical Association Member, Nihon Kinsei Bungakkai (Ass. of Early Modern Japanese Literature) Member, Association of Asian Studies Member, Modern Language Association Graduate Affiliate, Berkeley College, Yale University Founder, Japanese Studies Colloquium, Yale University Department Representative, Yale Graduate Student Assembly LANGUAGES English (native) Japanese (near native) Classical Japanese, Classical Chinese, French, Spanish (reading) 5