Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature. Articles on nationalism, colonialism, racism, the studies of visuality, aural-orality and body, translation, and writing systems, Japanese thought (17c-20c), Japanese literary Criticism, subjectivity, and comparative philosophy.
Books: Voices of the Past - the Status of Language in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Discourse; The stillbirth of Japanese as a language and as an ethnos; A Problem called 'Japanese Thought'; Translation and Subjectivity.
Areas of research: translation studies, nationalism, 19th- and 20th-century comparative thought, visual and aural/oral signifying practices, ideographic characters and phoneticism, literary theory, cultural theory.

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