About – Paul Schalow

Paul G. Schalow

PROFESSOR OF JAPANESE LITERATURE

Phone: 848-932-5025

Office: Rutgers Academic Building AB-6052 (West Wing) 15 Seminary Place, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Education

Ph.D. in Japanese Literature, Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and
Civilizations, 1985
M.A. in Regional Studies-East Asia, Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages
and Civilizations, 1979
B.A. in Japanese and Linguistics, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1977

Areas of Specialization

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

“Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Economies of Victimization, Communities of Empathy,” in Essays in Honor of Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit, eds. Judit Árokay, Verena Blechinger-Talcott, and Hilaria Gössmann (Munich: Iudicium, 2008), 409-426.
“Figures of Worship: Responses to Onnagata on the Kabuki Stage in Seventeenth-Century Japanese Vernacular Prose,” in Transvestism and the Onnagata Traditions in Shakespeare and Kabuki, eds. Minoru Fujita and Michael Shapiro (Kent: Global Oriental, 2006), 59-70.
“Five Portraits of Male Friendship in the Ise Monogatari,” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 60.2 (2000): 445-488.
“Theorizing Sex/Gender in Early Modern Japan: Kitamura Kigin’s Maidenflowers and Wild Azaleas,” Japanese Studies 18.3 (1998): 247-263.
“The Invention of a Literary Tradition of Male Love: Kitamura Kigin’s Iwatsutsuji,” Monumenta Nipponica 48.1 (1993): 1-31.
“Spiritual Dimensions of Male Beauty in Japanese Buddhism,” in Religion, Homosexuality, and Literature, eds. Michael L. Stemmeler & José Ignacio Cabezón (Las Colinas, Texas: Monument Press, 1992), 75-94. Reprinted in Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists, ed. Winston Leyland (San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1998), 107-124.
“Male Love in Early Modern Japan: A Literary Depiction of the ‘Youth’,” in Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, eds. Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, & George Chauncey (New York: New American Library, 1989), 118-128.

Courses Taught