Kimberly Kono, Ph.D.

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), and "Writing, Japan and Otherness" (EAL 245). She has also taught seminars on Japanese literature and film from the 1960s, and on Japanese colonial literature. Her book, Romance, Family and Nation in Japanese Colonial Literature (forthcoming from Palgrave in 2010) examines the tropes of romance, family and marriage 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.

Phone: (413) 585 – 3738
Office: Dewey Hall 20

Email: kkono@smith.edu