Simon Lenoe

Simon Lenoe is a Researcher at the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), University of Chicago. His work focuses on encounters between Meiji-era Japanese authors and European racial ideologies, with particular attention to translingual and interdisciplinary approaches. He holds a BA in German Studies from Carnegie Mellon University (2021) and an MA in Humanities from the University of Chicago (2024).

Research Interests: Japanese Meiji-era literature, racial ideology, East Asian and Asian-American literatures, cultural studies, and the polymathic qualities of Meiji authors. His MA thesis analyzed Japanese author Mori Ōgai’s engagement with European racial thought through his German-language medical studies and Japanese literary works.

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