Yiu Angela

My research interest is in Modern Japanese Fiction, with an emphasis on Meiji and Taisho fiction. The focus of my research until 1999 was the works of Natsume Soseki. Between 1999-2002 I worked on women writers (Mori Mari, Koganei Kimiko) and the Mori Ogai family. Currently, I am working on utopianism, modernism, postwar literature, and urban space in Japanese literature. I also work on the Sino-Japanese issues in modern literature.

I teach the following 5 undergraduate courses: Lit 231 Introduction to Japanese Literature,Lit 435 Modern Japanese Fiction 1, Lit 436 Modern Japanese Fiction 2, and two courses titled Topics in Japanese Literature. My research interest is in Modern Japanese Literature. I also teach a graduate course in the Graduate School of Global Studies (JS 511 Interpretations of Modernity. Currently I research on Taisho utopianism, modernism, postwar literature, and urban space in modern Japanese literature.

(Subject of research)
Urban Space in Literature
A global perspective on Taisho utopianism: its origin, development, and its relevance today
Three-Dimensional Reading: Time and Space in Japanese Modernist Literature
Sino-Japanese issues in modern literature

(Proposed theme of joint or funded research)
Urban Space in Japanese Literature
Japanese Modernist Literature, postwar literature,　literature and colonialism
Sino-Japanese issues in modern literature