Leith MortonLeith Morton is Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, and has lectured in Japanese at many universities in Australia and overseas, including the University of Syd_x0002_ney (1979–1992), the University of Newcastle [Australia] from 1992–203, where he was appointed to the Chair of Japanese, and later, to the Head of the Department of Modern Languages. He has written many books on modern Japanese literature and culture, in_x0002_cluding: Divided Self: A Biography of Arishima Takeo (Allen & Unwin, 1988); Modern Japanese Culture: The Insider View (Oxford University Press, 2003); Modernism in Prac_x0002_tice: An Introduction to Postwar Japanese Poetry (University of Hawai’i Press, 2004); The Alien Within: Representations of the Exotic in Twentieth-Century Japanese Literature (Uni_x0002_versity of Hawai’i Press, 2009); and The Writing of Disaster: Literary Representations of War, Trauma and Earthquakes in Modern Japan (Peter Lang, 2020); he also co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature (Routledge, 2016). Read More Read Less