Michael Brownstein

Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures

Degrees

B.A., California State University, Northridge; B.A. Monterey Institute of International Studies; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Profile

Brownstein has been teaching courses on Japanese language and culture at Notre Dame since 1982. His current research interests concern the Tokugawa Period dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725). Brownstein's translations of Naniwa miyage (Souvenirs of Naniwa, 1738) and Act 3 of Kokusen'ya Kassen (Battles of Coxinga, 1715) appear in the anthology Early Modern Japanese Literature (Columbia University Press, 2002). His latest essay, "The Osaka Kannon Pilgrimage and Chikamatsu's Love Suicides at Sonezaki," appeared in the June 2006 issue of The Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Brownstein was recently awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanties for the 2007-2008 academic year to work on a book-length critical study of Chikamatsu's domestic plays.

Contact Information

262 Decio Faculty Hall
631-7769
mbrownst@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~eall/bios/brownstein.html