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Nina Cornyetz is Professor at NYU's Gallatin School, specializing in modern Japanese literature and film through critical theory frameworks. Her scholarship examines intersections of aesthetics, power structures, and cultural identity in 20th-century Japan.
Research Focus: Investigates ethical dimensions of Japanese aesthetic traditions from 1930s fascism to postwar avant-garde, with emphasis on writers like Mishima Yukio and filmmakers such as Shinoda Masahiro. Recent work analyzes desire and identity in contemporary Japanese women's literature.
Publications: Authored 'The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature' and co-edited 'Perversion and Modern Japan', exploring psychoanalytic readings of cultural production. Contributes to Routledge Contemporary Japan Series.
Education: BA Literature (CUNY), MA & PhD Modern Japanese Literature (Columbia).
Honors: Japan Foundation Fellowship, Now Foundation research grant.
