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Kristina Vassil

Assistant Professor of Japanese
EALL , 111 Lawrence Hall
p 315 2287953

Degree

 BA, Oberlin College, 1990; MA, University of Michigan, 2002; PhD, University of Michigan, 2010 

Teaching Experience

 Japanese language from beginning to advanced levels; Japanese literature in translation

Specialities

 Modern Japanese literature from the Meiji (1868-1912) and Taisho (1912-1924) periods, Japanese immigrant literature, Japanese language literature (Nihongo bungaku), Diasporic studies

Interests

 Asian American literature, Japanese language pedagogy

Publications

 「トランズナショナリズムと翁久允の『コスモポリタンは語る』」 (“Transnationalism and Okina Kyûin’s A Cosmopolitan Speaks”), Nihon Kindai Bungaku (Modern Japanese Literature), No. 75, Fall 2006.

Dissertation

 Passages: Writing Diasporic Identity in the Literature of Early Twentieth-Century Japanese America

Travel

 To Japan:

1990-1992; 1996-1998; 1999-2000; 2003-2006

Distinctions

 Major Awards:

UC Berkeley Scholars in Residence Fellowship (2011-2012); Picker Research Award (2011-2012) (Colgate); Rackham Dissertation Fellowship (2007-2008) (UM); Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (2006-2007); Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowship (2005-2006); Japanese Ministry of Education, Science and Culture Fellowship (2003-2005); College Women’s Association of Japan Scholarship (1999-2000); Japan Science and Technology Management Program (JSTMP) Fellowship (1996-1998).