Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature
Convener of Japanese
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Keith Vincent’s research interests include modern Japanese literature, comparative literature, queer theory, novel theory, psychoanalysis, and the history and theory of translation.  He has published on the work of writers including Masaoka Shiki, Mishima Yukio, Oe Kenzaburo, and Tawada Yoko.  He is the  co-author of Gei Sutadiizu (Gay Studies, Seidosha 1997) and the editor (in 1998) of a collection of lesbian and gay studies for the Japanese journal Gendai Shisô which helped introduce gay and lesbian studies to a Japanese readership.  He has translated texts by Natsume Soseki,  Okamoto Kanoko and others (into English) and essays by Lee Edelman, Douglas Crimp, and Judith Butler (into Japanese).  His current book projects include Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction and a co-edited volume entitled Perversion in Modern Japan: Experiments in Psychoanalysis. 

For more Information, see: http://www.bu.edu/mlcl/people/faculty/vincent.html

Courses:

Undergraduate:
Sexuality and Subjectivity in Modern Japanese Literature (CAS LJ 451)
Masterpieces of Japanese Literature (CAS LJ 250)
Major Works of East Asian Literature (CAS LL 224)