{"id":37,"date":"2017-12-06T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T15:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/professor-example\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T13:51:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/paul-schalow\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl class=\"fields-container\">\n<dd class=\"field-entry large-normal\"><span class=\"field-value\">Paul G. Schalow<\/span><\/dd>\n<dd class=\"field-entry caps-gray-med\"><span class=\"field-value\">PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF JAPANESE LITERATURE<\/span><\/dd>\n<dd class=\"field-entry \"><span class=\"field-value\"><a href=\"mailto:schalow@alc.rutgers.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">schalow@rutgers.edu<\/a><\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ph.D. in Japanese Literature, Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and<br \/>\nCivilizations, 1985<\/li>\n<li>M.A. in Regional Studies-East Asia, Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages<br \/>\nand Civilizations, 1979<\/li>\n<li>B.A. in Japanese and Linguistics, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1977<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Areas of Specialization<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Classical and Early-Modern Japanese Literature<\/li>\n<li>Japanese Women\u2019s Writing<\/li>\n<li>A-Bomb Literature and Film in Japan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Books (as author, translator) <\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan<\/i>. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2007. 221 pp. (Nominated for the 2007 Warren-Brooks Prize for outstanding literary criticism.)<\/li>\n<li><i>The Great Mirror of Male Love <\/i>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: <i>El Gran Espejo del Amor Entre Hombres: Episodios Entre Samurai, Monjes y Actors<\/i>. Buenos Aires: Interzona, 2003. 349 pp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\"><b>Books (as editor) <\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Japanese Civilization in the Modern World: Alcoholic Beverages<\/i>. Co-edited with Tadao Umesao &amp; Sh\u016bji Yoshida. Osaka: Senri Ethnological Studies No. 64, National Museum of Ethnology, 2003. 156 pp.<\/li>\n<li><i>The Woman\u2019s Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women\u2019s Writing<\/i>. Co-edited with Janet A. Walker. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1996. 512 pp.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Selected Articles and Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cAuschwitz and Hiroshima: Economies of Victimization, Communities of Empathy,\u201d in\u00a0<em>Essays in Honor of Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit,\u00a0<\/em>eds.\u00a0Judit \u00c1rokay, Verena Blechinger-Talcott, and Hilaria G\u00f6ssmann\u00a0(Munich: Iudicium, 2008), 409-426.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFigures of Worship: Responses to Onnagata on the Kabuki Stage in Seventeenth-Century Japanese Vernacular Prose,\u201d in\u00a0<em>Transvestism and the Onnagata Traditions in Shakespeare and Kabuki,\u00a0<\/em>eds<em>.\u00a0<\/em>Minoru Fujita and Michael Shapiro\u00a0(Kent: Global Oriental, 2006), 59-70.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFive Portraits of Male Friendship in the\u00a0<em>Ise Monogatari,<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<em>Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies<\/em>\u00a060.2 (2000): 445-488.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTheorizing Sex\/Gender in Early Modern Japan: Kitamura Kigin\u2019s\u00a0<em>Maidenflowers<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Wild Azaleas,<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<em>Japanese Studies<\/em>\u00a018.3 (1998): 247-263.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Invention of a Literary Tradition of Male Love: Kitamura Kigin\u2019s\u00a0<em>Iwatsutsuji,<\/em>\u201d\u00a0<em>Monumenta Nipponica<\/em>\u00a048.1 (1993): 1-31.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Spiritual Dimensions of Male Beauty in Japanese Buddhism,\u201d in\u00a0<em>Religion, Homosexuality, and Literature,<\/em>\u00a0eds.\u00a0Michael L. Stemmeler &amp; Jos\u00e9 Ignacio Cabez\u00f3n\u00a0(Las Colinas, Texas: Monument Press, 1992), 75-94. Reprinted in\u00a0<em>Queer Dharma: Voices of Gay Buddhists,\u00a0<\/em>ed.\u00a0Winston Leyland\u00a0(San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1998), 107-124.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Male Love in Early Modern Japan: A Literary Depiction of the \u2018Youth\u2019,\u201d in\u00a0<em>Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past,\u00a0<\/em>eds.\u00a0Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus, &amp; George Chauncey\u00a0(New York: New American Library, 1989), 118-128.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul G. 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