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Tomi Suzuki is Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, where she has been a faculty member since 1996. Her research focuses on modern Japanese literature and criticism within comparative frameworks, literary and cultural theory, and the intellectual history of modern Japan. She holds a BA (1974) and MA (1977) from the University of Tokyo, and a PhD (1988) from Yale University.
Her research examines narrative theory, genre evolution, gender construction, modernism, canon formation, and the history of reading practices. She is currently completing Gender, Literary Culture, and Nation in Japan: 1880s-1950s, exploring literary field development through the lenses of gender, language reform, and education in transnational contexts. Her teaching encompasses modern Japanese literature, gender studies, and East Asian humanities.
Recent publications focus on censorship dynamics, gender aesthetics in early 20th-century literature, classical text reinterpretations, and translation studies. These works demonstrate consistent engagement with Japanese modernity's intersections of language, power structures, and cultural identity across historical periods.
