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About

Paul G. Schalow
PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF JAPANESE LITERATURE
schalow@rutgers.edu

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

  • Classical and Early-Modern Japanese Literature
  • Japanese Women’s Writing
  • A-Bomb Literature and Film in Japan

Books (as author, translator)

  • A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2007. 221 pp. (Nominated for the 2007 Warren-Brooks Prize for outstanding literary criticism.)
  • The Great Mirror of Male Love by Ihara Saikaku. Translated, with an introduction, by Paul Gordon Schalow. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1990. 371 pp. (Awarded the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, 1990.) Spanish edition: El Gran Espejo del Amor Entre Hombres: Episodios Entre Samurai, Monjes y Actors. Buenos Aires: Interzona, 2003. 349 pp.

Books (as editor)

  • Japanese Civilization in the Modern World: Alcoholic Beverages. Co-edited with Tadao Umesao & Shūji Yoshida. Osaka: Senri Ethnological Studies No. 64, National Museum of Ethnology, 2003. 156 pp.
  • The Woman’s Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women’s Writing. Co-edited with Janet A. Walker. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996. 512 pp.

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.