Janice Brown

Janice Brown is a Professor of Japanese and Director of Graduate Studies in Japanese at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she has been affiliated since 2007. Prior to this, she served as Professor and Chair of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta.

• BA in Japanese Language, University of British Columbia
• MA and PhD in Asian Studies (Modern Japanese Literature), University of British Columbia

Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Japanese women’s poetry and fiction, gender and sexuality in Japanese literature, Japanese literary modernism, and critical posthumanities. She explores intersections between literary studies, feminist theory, and cultural analysis.

Her publications include translations and critical studies of Hayashi Fumiko and Ōba Minako, reflecting trends in Japanese women’s writing, transnational literary influences, and interdisciplinary approaches to cultural studies.

• Contact: janice.c.brown@colorado.edu
• Office: Eaton Humanities 229, CU-Boulder