David G. Goodman is Professor of Japanese Literature at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His books include
Angura: Posters of the Japanese Avant-Garde (1999): Jews
in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural Stereotype
(with Masanori Miyazawa, 1995); After Apocalypse: Four
Japanese Plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1986); Japanese
Drama and Culture in the 1960s: The Return of the Gods (1988);and
Long, Long Autumn Nights: Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo
(1989), which won the 1990 Columbia University Translation Center
Award. In addition to his English publications, Goodman has
written four books in Japanese, including, most recently, Hashiru
[Running], published by Iwanami Shoten."
Goodman received his B.A. from Yale University (cum laude),
and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University. He has held NEH
and Fulbright research grants and has lived more than ten years
in Japan. |
