John Whittier Treat

John Whittier Treat is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature at Yale University, Connecticut, United States, where he teaches Japanese literature and culture. He was co-editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies. He has published numerous essays and several books on Japan-related topics.

He received his BA, from Amherst College, Massachusetts, in 1975, and his MA and PhD from Yale University in 1979 and 1982, respectively.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about John Whittier Treat, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 9 works in 20 publications in 1 language and 1,000+ library holdings.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• The literature of Ibuse Masuji (1982)
• Pools of water, pillars of fire: the literature of Ibuse Masuji (1988)
• Yoshimoto Banana Writes Home: Shojo Culture and the Nostalgic Subject (1993)
• Contemporary Japan and popular culture (1995)
• Writing ground zero: Japanese literature and the atomic bomb (1995)
• Great mirrors shattered: homosexuality, orientalism, and Japan (1999)
• Japanese writers and the Second World War (2005)

Other published writing

• Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan with Alan Tansman and Dennis Washburn, eds. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, (1997). ISBN 0-939512-84-X

Honors

• 1998: Social Science Research Council Grant
• 1997: Association for Asian Studies, John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 1997.
• 1996-97: Mary Weeks Senior Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Stanford University
• 1994: NEH Summer Stipend