Expert Source: Anne Sokolsky, Ph.D.

Anne Sokolsky, Ph.D., is an expert in modern Japanese literature with a specialization in gender studies. Her research focuses on Tamura Toshiko, one of Japan’s early modern feminist writers, and also the literary production of first and second generation Japanese immigrants. A Fulbright scholar, Sokolsky has lived in Japan and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco.

Education:

• B.A., University of Michigan
• M.Ed., Harvard University
• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Expertise:

• Japanese literature
• Gender studies

Selected Publications:

• Forthcoming: “Tamura Toshiko”, Encyclopedia of Women in World History (Oxford University Press)
• Selected Peer Review Articles:
  • “Writing between the Spaces of Nation and Culture: Tamura Toshiko’s 1930s Fiction about Japanese Immigrants.” U.S. Japan Women’s Journal (2005)
  • “No Place to Call Home: Negotiating the ‘Third Space’ for Returned Japanese Americans in Tamura Toshiko’s ‘Bubetsu’(Scorn),” The Japan Review (March 2005)
  • “Writing the Political, Not Just the Personal in Tamura Toshiko’s Shôwa Period Fiction,” The Proceedings for the Association of Japanese Literary Studies (UCLA, Spring 2005)
• Translations:
  • Kanai, Keiko. “Women’s Magazines as a Community: Seitô and Nyonin geijutsu.” (Translation of Kanai Keiko’s presentation given at Harvard University, March 2002)
  • Ogai, Tokuko.“The Stars of Democracy: The First Thirty-Nine Female Members of the Japanese Diet.” U.S. – Japan Women’s Journal: English Supplement. No. 11 (September 1996)