“Writing Like a Man in the Tosa Diary,”
Gus Heldt, Bard College 

“The Specter of Hysteria in San’yutei Encho’s Shinkei kasanegafuchi,”
Daniel O’Neill, Yale University

“The Anxiety of Translation: Interlingual Seduction and Betrayal in Futabatei Shimei’s Ukigumo,”
Indra Levy, Rutgers University

“Discourse of Desire and Cultural Topography: The Figure of Woman in Tanizaki’s Reflections on Japanese Language,”
Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University

“Archetypes Unbound: Domestication of the Chinese ‘Five Imperial Consorts’”
Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto

“Kambun as Performative Power in Makura no sôshi and Murasaki shikibu nikki”
Naomi Fukumori, The Ohio State University

“In a ‘Borrowed Tongue’: The Representation of Japan in the English Language by Nitobe, Okakura, and Uchimura”
Matthew Mizenko, Ursinus College 

 ‘Dreams Come True’: Fukuda Tsuneari and the Shakespearean Sub-Text 
  Daniel Gallimore, Linacre College 
 

“The Wakan rôei shû: Singing in Harmony or Cannibalization?”
Sonja Arntzen, University of Toronto

“Gender, Geography, and Writing in Mabuchi’s Nativist Poetics: From Masurao-buri to Taoyame-buri”
Lawrence E. Marceau, University of Delaware

“Anzai Fuyue’s Empire of Signs: Japanese Poetry in Manchuria”
William O. Gardner, Middlebury College

“Making the Scene with Shikitei Sanba: Performing Popular Culture”
Joshua Young, Cornell University

“Rhetoric as Metalanguage and the Metalanguage of Rhetoric: How Language Defines and Is Defined in the Scholarship of Rhetoric of the Meiji and Taisho Periods”
Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University
 

“Translation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Writing in(to) Japanese”
Sarah Cox, Brigham Young University

“’Novels You Can Watch/Movies You Can Read’: Visual Narrative in 1930s Women’s Magazines”
Sarah Frederick, Boston University

“Publishing Houses and Court Houses: Ishihara Shintarô’s Debut as a Novelist”
Ann Sherif, Oberlin College

“Both Ways Now: Dazai Ozamu and Tanizaki Jun’ichirô Writing the Female in Post War Japan”
Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania

“Wresting National Language from the State: Inoue Hisashi’s Attempt to Overcome the Modern”
Christopher Robins, State University of New York at New Paltz

“The Gender of Solitude: Changing Sexual Identities in Recent Japanese Fiction”
Giorgio Amitrano, Naples University of Oriental Studies

“Writing the Limits of Sexual Identities: Tomioka Taeko’s ‘Straw Dogs’ and Nakagami Kenji’s ‘The Immortal’”
Eiji Sekine, Purdue University

“Colonial Ethnography and the Writing of the Exotic: Nishikawa Mitsuru in the Tropics”
Faye Yuan Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder

“Ethnic Identities and Various Approaches Towards the Japanese Language: Analysis of Ri Kaisei, Kin Kakuei, and Tachihara Masaaki”
Yoshiko Matsuura, Purdue University

“Women in Two Cultures: Nomadic Writers of Japan”
Reiko Tachibana, The Pennsylvania State University