Welcome to the Home Page of Ronald P. Loftus Department of Japanese and Chinese Willamette University Salem, Oregon 97301 Visiting the birthplace of Taoka Reiun (1870-1912), Kochi City, June 1996

 

Contact Information:

Address: Department of Japanese & Chinese Willamette University 900 State St Salem, OR 97301

Phone 503 370-6275 (Voice) Fax 503 375-5398 Email rloftus@willamette.edu

Personal Information:

Ph.D. in Modern Japanese History, Claremont Graduate School (1975). Began teaching 1977 at Western Washington University. Moved to Willamette University 1983. Currently Prefessor of Japanese Language and East Asian History. Teaching interests include Japanese Language, Japanese Literature in Translation, Modern Japanese History, Postwar Japan, and Japanese Cinema. Recently served as Director of the Northwest Language Consortium (NWLC), a Mellon Foundation funded project to enhance language teaching and learning through effective use of technology. Consortial schools are Willamette, Whitman, Lewis and Clark and University of Puget Sound. See also our Gallery of Projects Page here.

Visit my courses at the following Links:

• College Colloquium: Changing Times

• Modern Japanese History

• Postwar Japan

• Modern Japanese Literature

• Worldviews--Freshman Seminar

• Senior Seminar Japanese Studies

• Japanese Cinema

• Elementary Japanese I

• Elementary Japanese II

Research Interests:

Taoka Reiun (1870-1912)

a nineteenth-century literary and social critic known for his anti-modernism stance. Born in present day Kochi City on Shikoku. See Taoka Reiun International Symposium held in Kochi, Oct. 21, 2000.

• Autobiography, especially autobiographies by twentieth-century Japanese women, for example, Takamure Itsue, Fukuda Hideko, Sata Ineko, Nishikado Tamie, Kishino Junko, Chiba Atsuko, Kora Tomi, Atsugi Taka, Fukunaga Misao, Oku Mumeo, and Takai Toshio.

• My book, Telling Lives: Female Self-Writing in Modern Japan, has been published by University of Hawai'i Press as of July 2004. To order, click on cover.

For Selected list of publications on autobiography, click here.

Related Web pages:

AAS Home Page

ASPAC Home Page

Duke Women's Studies Page

Hiroshima Archive

Japanese Links: Keiko Schneider's Page, JPNet, Japan in the World

Japanese History Links: Rape of Nanking, Duke University Japanese Studies Resources

WWII Poster Gallery, WWII Resources

Japanese Studies at Willamette Home Page

Hobbies

The Blues, Origins, Blues Net

Soccer