Twenty-sixth Annual Japan Studies Association Conference
January 9-11, 2020
Keynote Speakers
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Professor William Tsutsui
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Professor Van C. Gessel
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William M. Tsutsui is President and Professor of History at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas. He previously served as dean of Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University from 2010 to 2014.
A specialist in the business, environmental and cultural history of modern Japan, he is the author or editor of eight books, including Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth-Century Japan (1998), Godzilla on My Mind: Fifty Years of the King of Monsters (2004), and Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization (2010). He has received Fulbright, ACLS, and Marshall fellowships, and was awarded the John Whitney Hall Prize of the Association for Asian Studies in 2000. |
Van C Gessel has published eight translations of works by the Japanese Christian novelist Endo Shusaku, including: The Samurai, Deep River, and Kiku’s Prayer. Sachiko will be published in spring 2020 by Columbia University Press. He co-edited, with Reid Neilson, a volume of essays titled, Taking the Gospel to the Japanese: 1901 to 2001, and served as co-editor, with J. Thomas Rimer, of The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature (Volume 1 published in 2005, Volume 2 in 2007).
In 2018 he received a Japanese imperial decoration, The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon, for contributions to mutual understanding between Japan and the U.S. and the introduction of Japanese literature overseas. |