Kimberly Kono

Kimberly Kono is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and 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 the seminar “Writing Empire: Images of Colonial and Postcolonial ‘Japan.'” She has also taught a seminar on Japanese literature and film from the 1960s, and “Literary Traditions of East Asia” (EAL 100). 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 .

Phone: (413) 585-3738
Office: Dewey Hall 20
Email: kkono@smith.edu