Associate Professor of Japanese & Comparative Literature and Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies and Convener of Japanese Language
Spring 2025 Office Hours: Wednesdays and Thursdays 3:00-4:00.
J. Keith Vincent is interested in literary friendships: how writers translate their relationships with other writers into aesthetic forms. In his research and teaching, he explores how genders inform genres, how sexuality shapes storytelling, and how great novels and poems emerge. He has a longstanding interest in the way the aesthetics of haiku has informed the modern Japanese novel via the literary friendship between the haiku poet Masaoka Shiki and the novelist Natsume Sōseki.
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He is currently completing a book manuscript titled “I, Who Go”: The Young Shiki and the Invention of Haiku.
Watch a lecture here by Professor Vincent on Masaoka Shiki and Marcel Proust delivered at the University of Chicago in the spring of 2023.
Here is a lecture delivered in Japanese at Otsuma Women’s University in Tokyo in the fall of 2023, on the impact on Shiki of the suicide of his younger cousin, the poet and playwright Fujino Kohaku.
Personal website: jkeithvincent.com