Yoshiaki Koshikawa

Update: May 12, 2003

OFFICE

Department of English

Meiji University

1-1 Kanda Surugadai

Chiyoda, Tokyo

101-8301, Japan

Phone: 03-3296-2243

Fax:03-3296-2350

Email:yoshiaki@isc.meiji.ac.jp

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

1981-1985 Lecturer, English Education, Yamanashi University,

1985-1993 Lecturer to Associate Professor, English Education, Tokyo Denki University

1993- Associate Professor to Professor, English, Meiji University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1884 Editor in Chief Number 1 issue of Connective

1991 Guest Editor "Postmodern Writers" issue of Positive 01

1994- Member of Executive Committees, American Literature Society in Japan

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

As an eidor. Amerika Bungaku no Hiro(Heroes in American Literature).Tokyo: Seibido,1991.

America no Kanatani(Who's Afraid of Thomas Pynchon? : Contemporary American Fiction Since 1980). Tokyo: Jiyukokumin-sha, 1994.

As an editor and writer. Sekai-Genzai-Bungaku, Sakka File(World-Present-Literature, Contemporary Writers' File). Tokyo: Kokushokankokai,1996.

As an editor, writer, and translator. Reader's Guide to Steve Erickson. Tokyo: Sairyu-sha,1996.

As an editor, writer and translator. Dream: The Future of the Literature Predicted through the Conversations with and Essays on Steve Erickson. Tokyo: Chikuma-shobo, 1999.

In addition, more than a hundred fifty essays, articles, bookreviews on contemporary American fiction as well as nine long interviews with American novelists including Paul Bowles, John Barth, Lynne Tillman, Gary Indiana, Steve Erickson etc.

TRANSLATION: Books

Universal Yakyu Kyokai(The Universal Baseball Association) by Robert Coover.

Tokyo: Wakabayashi,1985. Revised Reprinted Edition, Tokyo: Shincho-sha,1990.

Shiosai no Shonen( The Boys on the Rocks) by John Fox. Tokyo: Shicho-sha,1989.

With Ueno, Saeki and Hatayama, Juryuku no Niji(Gravity's Rainbow) by Thomas Pynchon. Tokyo: Kokushokankokai,1993.

Toi Kodama(Collected Short Stories [I]) by Paul Bowles. Tokyo: Hakusui-sha,1994.

Mayonaka no Misa(Collected Short Stories [II]) by Paul Bowles. Tokyo: Hakusui-sha,1994.

Maria no Shi(Scar Tissue: Short Stories) by Gary Indiana. Tokyo: Hakusui-sha,1995.

Samayou Hibi(Days Between Stations) by Steve Erickson. Tokyo:Chikuma-shobo,1996.

With Yagi, Washizu and Orishima. Selves at Risk: Patterns of Quest in Contemporary Letters by Ihab Hassan. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1996.

Juryuku kara Nogarete(Phases of Gravity) by Dam Simmons. Tokyo:Hayakawa-shobo,1998.

Gerald's Party by Robert Coover. Tokyo: Kodansha, 1999.

Mayonakani Umiga Yattekita(The Sea Came in at Midnight) by Steve Erickson. Tokyo:Chikuma-shobo,2001.

In addition, more than fifty translations of American short stories, essays, and

academic papers, inculding short fiction by Ha Jin, Pat Califica, Mark Leyner etc.

ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS

With Yoshizawa and Ueno. Art Buckwald: A Treasure in American Humor.

Tokyo: Nan'un-do, 1983.

With Yoshizawa and Ueno. Art Buckwald: A Joy of American Humor.

Tokyo:Nan'un-do, 1983.

With Esmore Jones, American Short Stories of Today. Tokyo: Nan'un-do Penguin, 1991.

Bob Greene's Heartwarming American Columns. Tokyo: Seibi-do, 1993.