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Marianne Tarcov - Undergraduate Program Director
Academic title(s):
Assistant Professor
Department:
East Asian Studies
Biography:
Marianne Tarcov is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in Montreal, Canada. She is at work on a book project titledÌýScreening Open Secrets of War, Mass Culture, and Hometown in Twentieth-Century Japanese Poetry, which is currently under review at Cornell East Asia Series. She has published two peer-reviewed articles inÌýJournal of Japanese Language and Literature.ÌýShe also guest edited a special section of the journal entitledÌýBodies in Pain, Flux, and Pleasure: Transgressive Femininity in Japanese Media and Literature.ÌýHer translations of modern Japanese poetry have appeared inÌýAsymptote,ÌýPoetry Kanto,ÌýOctopus, and elsewhere, and her translations have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She received her PhD in Japanese literature from University of California, Berkeley before teaching as a visiting professor at University of Chicago and University of Notre Dame.Ìý
Her research interests include but are not limited to modern Japanese poetry, documentary cinema, Japanese popular culture, gender and the body in contemporary Japan, and women’s professional wrestling (joshi puroresu).ÌýÌýÌý
Area(s): Japan
Areas of expertise: modern Japanese literature, lyric poetry, Japanese cinema, gender and the body
Research Areas: Japanese literary and visual culture
Areas of interest:
Her research explores the social and political valences of Japanese literary and visual cultures in the twentieth century and beyond.
Area(s):
Japan
Group:
Assistant Professor