Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Assistant Professor of Japanese
Convener (division head) of Japanese Language

Sarah Frederick's areas of specialization are in 20th century Japanese literature and history, relationships between mass media and modern literature, gender, and culture.  Her most recent publication is Turning Pages: Reading and Writing Women's Magazines in Interwar Japan (2006).  Professor Frederick is currently working on a project which looks at 20th century Japanese literature and history through the works of Yoshiya Nobuko (1896-1973).

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Courses:

Undergraduate:
Masterpieces of Japanese Literature (in English translation) (CAS LJ 250)
Japanese Civilization (CAS LJ 281)
Japanese Culture through Cinema (CAS LJ 283)
Self and Society in Modern Japanese Literature (CAS LJ 350)
Fourth-Year Japanese I (CAS LJ 403)
Fourth-Year Japanese II (CAS LJ 404)
Topics in Japanese Literature (CAS LJ 451)
Japanese Women Writers (CAS LJ 480)
Rise of the Modern and Encounter with the West:  Japanese Literature (1864-1945) (CAS LJ 481)