Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Professor Stephen Dodd

Key information

Roles
Emeritus Professor of Japanese Literature Japan Research Centre Emeritus Research Associate
Qualifications
BA(Oxon) MA PhD (Columbia)
Email address
sd5@soas.ac.uk

Biography

Steve gained two BA degrees in Chinese (1977) and Japanese (1980) from Keble College, Oxford. He obtained a PhD in Japanese Literature from Columbia University (1993). After teaching briefly at UC Santa Barbara (1993), he became Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature at Duke University (1993-94). From 1994 he taught at SOAS, retiring in 2019 as Professor of Japanese Literature. He lectured on various aspects of modern Japanese literature, including women’s writing, the development of a modern self-identity, and literary representations of the city.

Research interests

Modern Japanese literature, gender studies, translation studies

Publications

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