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Dr. Cathy P.
Steblyk
Assistant Professor of Comparative
Literature and Japanese
Department of Comparative Literature
The Pennsylvania State University,
311 Burrowes, University Park, 16802
Tel: (814) 863-4934 Fax:
(814) 863-8882 cps6@psu.edu
Education:
1991-1999
Ph.D. Comparative Literature. Dept. of Comparative Literature, Religion,
and
Film/Media Studies. University of Alberta, Canada. Dissertation: "Japanese
Women's Shishôsetsu: Some Limitations of 'Universal' Literary
Criteria."
1995-1996
Japan Foundation Research Fellow. Tôkyô University, Japan.
1994-1995
Inter-University Center for Studies in Advanced Japanese. Yokohama, Japan.
Stanford University.
1988-1991
M.A. Dept. of Comparative Literature, University of Alberta. Thesis: "The
Nature
Lyric in Japanese Canadian Poetry of Identity."
1984-1988
B.A. (Special) Department of English, University of Alberta, Canada.
Professional Appointments:
7/99-present
Asst. Prof. The Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Comparative Literature
and Japanese. Courses: Spring 01, Grad. Seminar “Avant Garde! Asia” (CMLIT
522); Japanese Film (JAPNS 453); Japanese 002; Modern Novel (CMLIT 470);
Literary Criticism and Theory (CMLIT 400W); Literature and Film: Narrative
and Reception (CMLIT/COMM 453).
11/98-6/99
Instructor, The Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Comparative Literature
and Japanese. Courses: Elementary Japanese (JAPNS 001, JAPNS 002), graduate
seminar “Studies of Genre: Autobiography and Lies” (CMLIT 504), “Introduction
to Asian Literature” (CMLIT 004)
1/98-5/98
Instructor, East Asian Studies, McGill University. Courses: "Survey of
Modern Japanese Literature in Translation"(117-366B), "Images of the Feminine
in Japanese Film, Literature, and Art"(117-361B), "Beyond Orientalism"(117-515B).
Publications:
In Print
Co-editor, with E. Ellerman and
K. Emck. Feminism and Postmodernism. Collection of Papers in
The Canadian Review of Comparative Literature.
Sept. 1994.
Editor, Co-author of English sections.
Josei gaku bukku gaido, II. (A Women's Studies
Bibliography II), in English and Japanese.
Yokohama Women's Association for Communication
and Networking, ed. Tôkyô: Sanshûsha,
1997.
Reader, Copy Editor. Gender and
Japanese History: The Self and Expression/ Work and Life.
Vol. II. Wakita Haruko, Anne Bouchy, Ueno Chizuko,
eds. Osaka: Osaka UP, 1999.
Submitted
“'Purloined' History and Ethics
in Postmodern Hardboileds. Study of Contemporary Literature from
Japan and the Americas.” Submitted to Comparative
Literature. Jan 2001.
In Progress:
“Japan’s Mina Loy? Uno Chiyo and
the Spectrality of Japanese Modernity.” Developed from
research conducted in Japan through IAHS/RGSO grants,
July 2000. Est. date: 01/2001
Empires of Ecstasy: Japan, Gender,
Cyberspace and Globalization." Lecture and Paper for PSU
Seminar, "Globalization." Papers to be coll. for publication
in manuscript by Routledge, edited by
Prof. Djelal Kadir, 2001.
Fantastic Subjects: Japanese
I-fiction in the 20th Century. Book. Research conducted in Japan
through IAHS/RGSO grants, July 2000. Est. date of completion
Summer 2002.
Scholarly Papers:
"Simone de Beauvoir was Wrong About
The Tale of Genji." Comparative Literature and Film
Studies Graduate Student Lecture Series, University
of Alberta, Canada. March 1993.
"The Poetics of Japanese Canadian
Poetry." In coll. with Sally Itô. Conference on "Strategies of
Critique: Alterity, Excess, Community." York University,
Canada. April 1993.
"Western Notions of Genre and
Japanese Women’s Autobiographies." Canadian Learned Societies
Conference (CCLA), Ottawa. May-June 1993.
"Japanese Women's Literary History
and Fictional Writing of the Self." Association of Asian Studies
on the Pacific
Coast (ASPAC), Edmonton, Alberta. June 1996
"Uno Chiyo's Mirror Writing." PhD.
Kenkyûkai Conference, Tôkyô, Japan. July 1996.
“Finding Difference Along a Road
to Identity. Joy Kogawa and Historical Identity.” Association of
Asian Studies (AAS), Boston, March 1999.
“Transnational Feminism, Fashion,
and Japanese Bluestockings: A Modernist Politics of Style.”
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).
Montreal, April 1999.
“Body, No Body: Epistemologies and
Corpses in Postmodern Hard-Boiled Narratives.” American
Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Yale, February
2000.
“Avant-Garde Gender Politics and
Modern Japan.” Conference on Rethinking the Avant-Garde,
Notre Dame, April 2000.
“Bananamania: Crossing Culture and
Anti-Intellectualism.” Conference on Brainwatching: Intellect
and Ideology in Media Culture, Ryerson, Toronto, Canada.
May 2000.
“Postmodern Sites of Race: Shopping
Japanese Nomads.” XVIth International Comparative
Literature Association
(ICLA), Pretoria, South Africa, August 2000.
“Social Resistance and Cultural Texts
of 1960s and 1970s Japan.” Conference on Comparative
Collective Memory in Post War Germany and Japan. University
of Pittsburgh, Nov. 3-4, 2000.
“Performing Modern Eros: Hollywood
and Japan." American Comparative Literature Association
(ACLA), Apr.
2001.
Languages:
Fluent in English, Japanese, French.
Awards:
5/01-6/01
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, PSU. Japan, $3000.
7/00-8/00
Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, PSU. Japan, $2000.
7/00-8/00
Research and Graduate Studies Office, PSU. Japan, $2100.
9/95-11/96 Japan Foundation
Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Tôkyô University, Dept. of
Comparative Culture and Comparative
Literature, Prof. Y. Osawa.
Professional Affiliations:
•Association of Asian Studies, AAS;
Association of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast, ASPAC;
American Comparative Literature Association, ACLA; Canadian
Comparative Literature
Association, CCLA; International Comparative Literature
Association, ICLA; PhD. Kenkyûkai,
International House, Tokyo; Women's On-line Media, Japan;
East Asian Studies Faculty, PSU;
Center for Global Studies, PSU.
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