Kimberly Kono teaches courses on modern Japanese language, literature, and culture. Her literature courses include "Modern Japanese Literature" (EAL 242), "Constructions of Gender in Modern Japanese Women's Writing" (EAL 244), "Writing, Japan and Otherness" (EAL 245), and "Literary Traditions of East Asia" (EAL 100). She has also taught seminars on Japanese literature and film from the 1960s, and on literature produced in or about Japan’s colonies. Currently, her research examines the construction of "race," gender and romance in Japanese literature produced in colonial Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria during the 1930s and 1940s. Other research interests include feminist and postcolonial theory, Japanese popular culture, and Japanese immigrant writing.

She earned her B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. at University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Kono is on leave for the 2007-2008 academic year.

Phone: (413) 585 – 3738

Office: Dewey Hall 20

Email: kkono@email.smith.edu