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<\/p>\nSarah Frederick\u2019s areas of specialization are in 20th-century Japanese literature and history and relationships among mass media, modern literature, gender, and culture. She has worked extensively on 1920s and 30s women\u2019s print culture culture, image and text in literature of the 1930s-1950s, and gender and sexuality in modern literature and culture. She teaches courses in all periods of Japanese literature, film, and popular culture, as well as comparative courses on topics such as melodrama as a genre in fiction and cinema. She has received fellowships from the NEH, Fulbright-Hays, Javits, Hakuho Foundation, and Japanese Ministry of Education for her research.<\/p>\n
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Professor Frederick is the author of\u00a0<\/span>Turning Pages: Reading and Writing Women\u2019s Magazines in Interwar Japan<\/i><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(University of Hawaii Press, 2006), and articles in\u00a0<\/span>positions: East Asian Cultures Critique, US Japan Women\u2019s Journal\u00a0<\/span><\/i>and\u00a0<\/span>Japan Forum.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>She was also a contributor to\u00a0<\/span>Bad Girls of Japan<\/a>,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley, eds.<\/p>\n Professor Frederick is currently working on a book project that looks at 20th-century Japanese literature and history through the voluminous works of Yoshiya Nobuko (1896-1973), one of modern Japan\u2019s most commercially successful authors who is also seen as formative of many aspects of girls\u2019 culture (sh\u014djo culture). The project deals with materials from throughout Yoshiya\u2019s writing life, from the 1910s to the 1970s, including her travel writings in Asia during and after the Pacific war, as well as her afterlife in popular girls\u2019 culture, including manga and anime.<\/p>\n In addition to the book on Yoshiya Nobuko, Professor Frederick is also currently working on a joint Digital Humanities project with\u00a0<\/span>Alice Tseng<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>(BU, History of Art and Architecture) \u201cMapping Kyoto\u201d funded in part by the Hariri Institute for Computational Research and a related paper mapping Soseki\u2019s travels in Kyoto. She is also translating Soseki\u2019s essay about traveling to Kyoto.<\/p>\n She has received a BFRI (Bunka Fashion Research Institute) and MEXT Collaborative Fellowship for research on representations of kimono in literary modernism and the modernist and cosmopolitan aspects of kimono wearing and representation. She was invited to be the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies Professor in 2008-09 and Fall 2015.<\/p>\n She served as Acting Chair of WLL in 2010-2011 and is on the Board of the\u00a0<\/span>BU Center for the Study for Asia<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for which she has also serves as Associate Director. She is on the Executive Board of the\u00a0<\/span>Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>of which Boston University is a member. In Fall 2015, Sarah Frederick will be KCJS Professor at the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies located at Doshisha University.<\/p>\n