Quillon Arkenstone

Quillon Arkenstone serves as a Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign within the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

He earned his PhD in Japanese Literature from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 2017, focusing on modern Japanese literary traditions. His academic work centers on Japanese Literature and Japanese Cinema, with specialized expertise in Japanese Detective Fiction as a cultural phenomenon reflecting societal transformations in 20th-century Japan.

Dr. Arkenstone teaches core courses including EALC 306 (Japanese Literature in Translation II), EALC 398 (Colloquium: Japanese Detective Fiction), and EALC 466 (Japanese Cinema), examining narrative structures and historical contexts through primary source analysis.

His professional activities are centered in the Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building (2090 LCLB) at 707 S. Mathews Avenue, MC-146, Urbana, IL 61801.