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Email:	kvincent@ bu.edu
Office:	402D
Phone:	353-6217
Fax:	353-6246
Office Hours:	Fall 2008: TBD

J. Keith Vincent

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature

Convener of Japanese

BA, University of Kansas
MA, Columbia University
PhD, Columbia University

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.