Nicholas Albertson

A.B. (East Asian Studies), Brown University

• Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies (junior year abroad)

M.A. and Ph.D. (East Asian Languages and Civilizations), University of Chicago

• Princeton in Beijing (summer study abroad)
• Tōhoku University (dissertation research abroad)

Courses taught at Colgate:

• All levels of Japanese language (JAPN 121, JAPN 122, JAPN 201, JAPN 202, JAPN 301, JAPN 302, JAPN 401, JAPN 402)
• Japan through Literature and Film (JAPN 222)
• Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Culture (JAPN 240)
• Core Communities: Japan (CORE C167)
• Challenges of Modernity (CORE 152)

Previous teaching positions:

• Assistant Professor of Japanese, Wake Forest University
• Lecturer, Smith College
• Adjunct Lecturer, University of Illinois at Chicago

Poetry, gender, ecocriticism, translation

Peer-Reviewed Research Articles

“Supernatural Longing in Yamakawa Tomiko’s Tanka”

Japanese Studies, vol. 39, no. 1 (2019): 43–56

https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2019.1588690

“Legendary Heroines for the Meiji Era”

Southeast Review of Asian Studies, vol. 38 (2016): 1–16

http://www.asia-studies.com/2seras16.html

“Tangled Kami: Yosano Akiko’s Supernatural Symbolism”

U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal, no. 47 (Dec. 2014): 28–44

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/578912

Literary Translations

“Koigoromo (Robe of Love) Part 2: A Translation of Masuda Masako’s ‘Complete Devotion’”

second part of book-length poetry collection, 1905

U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal, no. 65 (2024): 75–108

            https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2024.a922156

“Koigoromo (Robe of Love) Part 1: An Introduction and Translation of Yamakawa Tomiko’s ‘White Lily’”

            first part of book-length poetry collection, 1905

            U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal, no. 63/64 (2023): 53–97

            https://doi.org/10.1353/jwj.2023.a903682

“A Portrait of Young Sangorō” (Hirata Sangorō Munetsugu), by Yamada Bimyō

            story in verse from Portraits of Youths (Shōnen sugata), 1886

            Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: Male Love, Intimacy and Erotics, 1886–2014

            edited by Stephen D. Miller

            University of Michigan Press (2022): 25–32

“Butterfly” (Kochō), by Yamada Bimyō

            short story, 1889

            Review of Japanese Culture and Society, vol. 29 (2017): 320–333

            https://muse.jhu.edu/article/728601

“Flower on a Grave” (Bojō no hana), by Doi Bansui

            poem from Nature Has Feelings (Tenchi ujō), 1899

            Transference, no. 1 (2013): 21–22

“Evening Bell” (Boshō), by Doi Bansui

            poem from Nature Has Feelings (Tenchi ujō), 1899

            Inventory, no. 3 (2012): 78–83

“Lament” (Aika), “Poet” (Shijin), “Untitled” (Mudai), by Doi Bansui

            poems from Nature Has Feelings (Tenchi ujō), 1899

            Inventory, no. 1 (2010): 76–80

Archie Fund for the Arts and Humanities, Wake Forest University

Toyota Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Chicago

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships (three in Japanese, one in Chinese)