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Professor Freedman specializes in modern Japanese literature,
visual studies, and popular culture and theories of gender,
modernity, and urban space. In particular, she is interested
in how the urban experience has shaped human subjectivity
and cultural production. Her current research focuses on fictional
and artistic depictions of the ways increased use of mass
transportation changed the social fabric of twentieth-century
Tokyo. She is also investigating images of youth in Japanese
literature and culture. Her annotated translation of Kawabata
Yasunari’s modernist novel The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
(Asakusa kurenaidan) is forthcoming from the University of
California Press in 2005. Professor Freedman’s other
publications include “Stories of Boys and Buildings:
Ishida Ira’s 4-Teen in 2002 Tokyo” (Angela Yiu,
ed., Tokyo Space/Global Consumption, currently under review),
“Stories of Salarymen and Trains: Exposing the Erotic
and Mundane of Late 1920s Tokyo Life” (Sophia AGLOS Working
Papers Series, 2004), “Commuting Gazes: Female Students,
Salarymen, and Electric Trains in 1907 Tokyo,” (Journal
of Transport History, 2002), and “Review of Iwabuchi
Koichi, ed., Feeling Asian Modernities: Transnational Consumption
of Japanese Television Dramas,” (Asian Journal of Communication,
2004). She has also published translations of stories by contemporary
women writers Ogawa Yôko, Nagai Ai, and Saegusa Kazuko
and resident Korean author Chong Ui Shin and has edited a
volume of Donald Richie’s essays on Japanese literature.
Professor Freedman received her Ph.D. from the University
of Chicago in 2002 and then completed a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowship at Cornell University.
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