Selected Publications:

"In Search of Japan's First Modern Autobiography," biography 6:3 (Summer,1983), 256-272.

"History and Literature: Approaches to the Study of Modern Japanese Autobiography," Symposium on the Interdisciplinary Aspects of Academic Disciplines, Vladmir Milicic, comp. (Bellingham, WA.: Western Washington University, 1983), 139-147.

"The Inversion of Progress: Taoka Reiun's Hibunmeiron," Monumenta Nipponica 40:2 (Summer 1985), 191-208.

"Discovering the Other: The East through the Eyes of the Nineteenth-Century West," in William Duvall, ed., The Three Rs: Reading as the aRt of Rumination. Willamette Journal of the Liberal Arts: Supplemental Series 2 (Salem, OR: Willamette University, 1989), 1-20.

"Is There a Woman in the Text? Fukuda Hideko's Warawa no hanseigai," in Julie Ann Carson & John Rehn, eds., In the Pacific Interest : Democracy, Women and the Environment, Willamette Journal of the Arts Supplemental Series 4 (1991), pp. 73-86.

"Female Self-Writing: Takamure Itsue's Hi no kuni no onna no nikki " Monumenta Nipponica. Vol 51, no. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 153-170.

"Recovering the Feminine: Kishino Junko's Onna no chihei kara miete-kita mono," U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, English Supplement no. 11 (1996), pp. 23-46.

"Taoka Reiun no hyooron ni okeru bungakuteki riarizumu to shakaiteki ryooshin"["Social Realism and Social Conscience in the Literary Criticism of Taoka Reiun"] in Bungaku: shakai e, chikyu e [Literature Toward Society and the Globe] Essays in Commemoration of Professor Nishida Masaru's Retirement, San'ichi Shobo, 1996, pp. 172-177.

"Shin'po no tempuku," serialized in vols 92-98 of Chikyu no ittten kara, a Japanese Language Newsletter. A translation and revision of "The Inversion of Progress" (1985) listed above.

"Depicting Women: The Memoirs and Documentary Films of Atsugi Taka," Intersections, No. 7 (March 2002) online at : http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/issue7/loftus.html

Telling Lives: Female Self-Writing in Modern Japan, University of Hawai'i Press, July 2004.