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Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature

• Affiliation(s)

  • Center for Japanese Studes
  • Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

• About

  Ken Ito is an emeritus professor of Japanese literature. He works on the connections between texts and social contexts in 20th-century Japanese fiction. He is currently researching the portrayal of families in melodramatic novels.

• Education

  • PhD, Japanese Literature, Yale University, 1985
  • MA, Japanese Literature, Yale University, 1979
  • BA, History, Yale College, 1974