Kimberly Kono
Professor of Japanese Language & Literature
Contact & Office Hours
Fall 2023 Office Hours:
Sabbatical
Dewey Hall 306
413-585-3738
Education
Ph.D., M.A., B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Biography
Kimberly Kono teaches courses on modern Japanese language, literature and culture.
Her book Romance, Family and Nation in Japanese Colonial Literature (Palgrave, 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, travel writing and Japanese popular culture.