John Whittier Treat is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature at Yale University

Yale University

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, Connecticut, United States, where he teaches Japanese literature

Japanese literature

Early works of Japanese literature were heavily influenced by cultural contact with China and Chinese literature, often written in Classical Chinese. Indian literature also had an influence through the diffusion of Buddhism in Japan...

 and culture. He was co-editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies

Journal of Japanese Studies

The Journal of Japanese Studies is the most influential journal dealing with research on Japan in the United States. It is a multidisciplinary forum for communicating new information, new interpretations, and recent research results concerning Japan to the English-reading world...

. He has published numerous essays and several books on Japan-related topics.

He received his BA, from Amherst College

Amherst College

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, Massachusetts, in 1975, and his MA and PhD from Yale University in 1979 and 1982, respectively.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about John Whittier Treat, OCLC

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/WorldCat

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 encompasses roughly 9 works in 20 publications in 1 language and 1,000+ library holdings.

• The literature of Ibuse Masuji (1982)
• Pools of water, pillars of fire: the literature of Ibuse Masuji (1988)
• Contemporary Japan and popular culture (1995)
• Writing ground zero: Japanese literature and the atomic bomb (1995)
• Great mirrors shattered: homosexuality, orientalism, and Japan (1999)
• Japanese writers and the Second World War (2005)

Other published writing

• Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan
  Edwin McClellan
  Edwin McClellan was a British Japanologist. He was an academic—a scholar, teacher, writer, translator and interpreter of Japanese literature and culture.-Biography:...
  
  with Alan Tansman and Dennis Washburn, eds. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, (1997). ISBN 0-9395-1284-X

Honors

• 1998: Social Science Research Council Grant
• 1997: Association for Asian Studies
  Association for Asian Studies
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  , John Whitney Hall Book Prize
  John Whitney Hall Book Prize
  The John Whitney Hall Book Prize has been awarded annually since 1994 by the Association for Asian Studies . Pioneer Japanese studies scholar John Whitney Hall is commemorated in the name of this prize....
  
  , 1997.
• 1996-97: Mary Weeks Senior Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Stanford University
  Stanford University
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• 1994: NEH Summer Stipend