“This book of impassioned essays by erudite scholars who have dedicated their careers to expanding the parameters of modern Japanese literary studies offers a detailed overview of the field‘s germinal biases and later productive entanglements with other disciplinary fields, including ethnic and feminist studies, environmental and translation studies, media studies, and more. It ultimately convinces one of the importance of non-West and literary humanities in this moment.”

— Christine Marran, University of Minnesota

“Across fourteen chapters, Modern Japanese Literary Studies offers a bracing, sober, critical, and ultimately inspiring overview of an area of intellectual inquiry that really can’t be described, anymore, as ‘minor.’ Rooted in the individual perspectives of scholars and teachers whose research spans a variety of issues and themes, the essays are as thought-provoking for specialists as they are accessible to newcomers to the field. It’s a testament to the editors that the collection leaves one wanting even more.”

— Michael Emmerich, UCLA

"Modern Japanese Literary Studies covers a wide range of topics on the study of modern Japanese literature and its relationship with various disciplinary approaches, from feminist studies to environmental studies to Sinitic literature in modern Japan. Within this impressive breadth, the book is remarkably cohesive."— Rebecca Suter, University of Oslo

“This riveting volume conducts a chorus of in-situ witness accounts of how modern Japanese literature has evolved as a diverse field—a chorus that reverberates with urgency to fill gaps in scholarship and sustain momentum for innovation, frustration with the status quo, and trepidation about emergent challenges.”

— Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto