| I earned my MA at the University of British Columbia, where I wrote my thesis on the Japanese philosopher Miki Kiyoshi. I work primarily on the relations between intellectual and political and/or cultural spheres in 1920s and 1930s Japan. Broadly, I consider intellectuals and intellectual movements within both local (the premodern tradition) and global (comparative) contexts. In doing so, I place significant emphasis on the role of social networks.
I am particularly interested in the publishing industry and its role in shaping intellectual movements, such as the Kyoyoshugi movement of the 1920s. My dissertation research focuses on the publisher Iwanami Shoten, tracing its relations with intellectuals and its efforts to influence and direct intellectual movements from the Taisho era through to the 1960s, efforts that played a major role not only in the canonization of certain texts, bu t also more broadly in the creation of modern Japanese intellectual culture. |
