Janice Brown

  • Professor of Japanese
  • Director of Graduate Studies in Japanese
  • ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CIVILIZATIONS
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Address

Eaton Humanities (HUMN) 229

Office Hours

By appointment, remote and/or in-person

Affiliated Faculty are not employees of the Center for Asian Studies. Please contact this faculty member at their home department.

Education

Ph.D., Modern Japanese Literature, University of British Columbia, 1985
M.A., Modern Japanese Literature, University of British Columbia, 1979
B.A., Japanese Language, University of British Columbia, 1977

Regional and Thematic Interests

East Asia
Language

Profile

Janice Brown received a BA in Japanese language, and an MA and PhD in Asian Studies (Modern Japanese Literature) from the University of British Columbia. She has been at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2007. Prior to coming to CU-Boulder, she was Professor and Chair of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Hayashi Fumiko: I Saw A Pale Horse and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond, and Tarnished Words: The Poetry of Ōba Minako. Her areas of specialization are modern Japanese women writers, modern and contemporary Japanese women’s poetry, Japanese literary modernism, and modern Japanese fiction.

Selected Publications

  • Hayashi Fumiko: I Saw A Pale Horse and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond, Ithaca, New York: Cornell East Asia Series, 1997.
  • Tarnished Words: The Poetry of Ōba Minako, Norwalk, CT: EastBridge, 2002.
  • Across Time & Genre: Reading and Writing Japanese Women’s Texts, co-ed. Sonja Arntzen, Edmonton: University of Alberta, 2001.