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Stephen M. Forrest Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from Harvard University, 2005 Assistant Undergraduate Advisor - Japanese Contact Information Phone: 413-545-4950 Email: sforrest@asianlan.umass.edu Office: Herter 441 Office Hours (Fall 2007): MTuW 11:45-12:30, & by appt. Stephen Forrest focusses his research on the Japanese poetic tradition and its role in the construction of national culture and identity, especially during the early modern and modern eras (1600~1945). In addition to revising and expanding for publication his dissertation on the classical poet Nôin, he is working on a monograph tracing the development of poetic monuments as a form of cultural transmission during the Edo and Meiji eras.   He teaches manuscript and woodblock-print Japanese, using where possible materials from the Benjamin S. Lyman Collection at UMass.   His interest in the historical connection between UMass Amherst and Hokkaidō University has led to a project examining Japanese and Western representations of Hokkaidô during the bakumatsu, Meiji and Taishô eras. Courses Offered - Fall 07 Japanese Premodern and Modern Literature (Jpn 144) Study Abroad: Japan (Jpn 197M) Readings in Modern Japanese (Jpn 497A) Proseminar: Edo woodblock texts (Jpn 592F) Introduction to Manuscript Japanese (Jpn 597A)

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