{"id":3682,"date":"2013-10-09T18:47:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?post_type=profile&p=3682"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T15:10:06","slug":"sarah-frederick","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/sarah-frederick\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Frederick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring 2026 Office Hours:\u00a0 Tuesdays 10:30-12:15 and Thursdays at 3:30 by appointment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sarah 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, 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, BU Center for the Humanities, and Japanese Ministry of Education for her research. She has also 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.<\/p>\n

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Professor Frederick is the author of\u00a0Turning Pages: Reading and Writing Women\u2019s Magazines in Interwar Japan<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(University of Hawaii Press, 2006), and articles in\u00a0positions: East Asian Cultures Critique, US Japan Women\u2019s Journal\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Japan Forum.\u00a0<\/em>She was also a contributor to\u00a0Bad Girls of Japan<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>Laura Miller and Jan Bardsley, eds. and recent book chapters in Japanese from Seikyusha Press<\/a>. She is a member of the BU Travel Literature Studies group and has published on the travels of Yoshiya Nobuko<\/a> and Isabella Bird in Japan<\/a> in volumes published by the group and available from Harvard University Press.<\/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) and a major figure of lesbian literature. 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. Professor Frederick has translated and published Yoshiya\u2019s work Yellow Rose<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Professor Frederick is also currently working on a joint Digital Humanities project with\u00a0Alice Tseng<\/a>\u00a0(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 has also translated Soseki\u2019s essay about traveling to Kyoto and published it in a multimedia format.<\/p>\n

She was Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies<\/a> Professor in 2008-09 and Fall 2015 and is faculty representative to the board of the consortium of which Boston University is a member. She was elected to the Association of Asian Studies New England Representative to the Council of Conferences in 2021. She also serves on the General Education Committee for the BU Hub general education program.<\/p>\n

Sarah Frederick’s CV<\/a><\/p>\n