Michael BrownsteinMichael Brownstein received his PhD in Japanese literature from Columbia University in 1981 for his dissertation on Kitamura Tōkoku. He is Associate Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Note Dame where he teaches courses on Japanese literature and culture. He has published essays on modern Japanese literature as well as translations of several modern Japanese short stories. His two most recent publication are “The ‘Devil’ in the Heart: Enchi Fumiko’s Masks and the Uncanny” in The Journal of Japanese Studies (2014) and “Sedge-hat Madness: A Translation of Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s ‘Onatsu Seijūrō Gojūnenki Uta Nenbutsu’” in Monumenta Nipponica (2016). He is currently writing a monograph on the domestic plays of Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653–1724), and his translation of Kanadehon Chūshingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers, 1748) is under review at Hackett Publishing Company. Read More Read Less