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Eve Zimmerman is Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures at Wellesley College, where she served as department chair for four years and directed the East Asian Studies program. Her teaching spans modern Japanese literature and visual culture, including specialized courses on the Japanese supernatural and coming-of-age narratives in East Asia.
Education:
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania
- Ph.D., Columbia University in the City of New York
Her research centers on Japanese literature with emphasis on how female writers refashion 'girlhood' in postwar fiction, manga, and memoir. Current work examines this fluid category as a vehicle for expressing gender, sexuality, and historical perspectives. Her first book analyzed burakumin writer Nakagami Kenji, while collaborative projects explore Japanese folk architecture through architectural photography.
Recent publications reveal interdisciplinary trends spanning literary translation, gender-focused criticism, and architectural ethnography. Key works analyze Tsushima Yūko's urban narratives, Ogawa Yōko's historical allegories, and folk architecture representations, demonstrating consistent engagement with memory, spatial theory, and visual culture across literary and non-literary domains.
Zimmerman has supervised diverse honors theses including mech anime research and translations of Mishima, Yamada, and Yoshimoto Banana. She actively supports emerging scholars through journal and book reviews for Duke, Harvard, and other academic presses.
Her departmental leadership created an innovative East Asian Studies major emphasizing cultural connections through 'Gateways to East Asia,' and established cross-departmental collaboration with Economics. Current focus includes developing the Newhouse Center community while maintaining an active collaboration with architectural historian Claire Zimmerman on Japanese folk architecture.
