Tamae K. Prindle

Curriculum Vitae

(October 2004)

Department of East Asian Studies 32 Averill Terrace

Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901 Waterville, ME 04901

Telephone: (207) 872-3176 Telephone: (207) 877-9113

FAX: (207) 872-3752 FAX: (207) 877-0737

e-mail: tkpridl@colby.edu

Current Position:

Oak Professor of East Asian Language and Literature

East Asian Studies Department Chair

Education:

----, French Literature, Gakushûin University, Tokyo, 1963-65.

B.A., English Literature, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1968.

M.A., English, Washington State University, 1970.

Thesis: “Takuboku Ishikawa's Poems.”

M.A., Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1982.

Thesis: "Other Aspects of Japanese Women."

Ph. D., Modern Japanese Literature, Cornell University, 1985.

Dissertation: "Japanese Business Novels: An Introduction."

Minor fields: Pre-modern Japanese Literature, Anthropology.

Professional History:

1976-77: English Lecturer, Department of English, Pahlavi University, Shiraz, Iran.

1980: English Tutor, Writing Center, State University of New York at Cortland.

1984-85: Teaching Assistant, Department of East Asian Literature, Cornell University.

1985-86: Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, East Asian Studies Program, Colby College.

1986-88: Dana Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, East Asian Studies Program, Colby College.

1988-89: Acting Chair, East Asian Studies Program, Colby College.

1989-91: Dana Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Department of Modern Foreign Languages, East Asian Studies Program, Colby College.

1991-93: Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Colby College.

1994- 95: East Asian Languages and Culture Department Chair, Colby College.

1995-96: Japan Foundation Research Fellow.

Ochanomizu Women's University, Gender Studies Center, Foreign Researcher Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan.

1996-97 : East Asian Studies Department Chair, Colby College.

1997 (Fall): Associated Kyoto Program Research Fellow

Doshisha University, AKP Center, Kyoto, Japan.

1998-200 : Professor of East Asian Studies.

2000~ : Oak Professor of East Asian Language and Literature

2001~ 04 : East Asian Studies Department Chair, Colby College

Courses Taught:

English:

1976-77: First and Second Year College English.

Japanese Language:

1985-present: First through Fourth Year Japanese;

January Intensive Course in First Year Japanese.

Japanese Literature and Culture:

1984-85: Japanese films, Introduction to Japan;

1985-present: Japanese Women in Cinema and Literature;

Literature of Japan;

Global Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Class;

Money and Society in Japanese Literature;

Seminar on Japanese Culture

Masterpieces: 20th Century Japanese Fiction

Publications:

Books:

Made in Japan and Other Japanese "Business Novels." Edited and translated by Tamae K. Prindle. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1989. *This book was reprinted in 1995.

Kinjô the Corporate Bouncer and Other Stories from Japanese Business. New York: Weatherhill, 1992. *This is the Weatherhill edition of my Made in Japan and Other “Business Novels” for foreign markets.

Kazuo Watanabe, Labor Relations: Japanese Business Novel. Translation and Introduction by Tamae K. Prindle. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1994.

Ikkô Shimizu, The Dark Side of Japanese Business: Three "Industry Novels." Translation, Introduction, and Editing by Tamae Prindle. Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 1995.

Japan Studies: Publication of the Center for Japan Studies at Teikyo Loretto Heights University. No. 3: Japan in the 20th Century: International Perspectives. Edited by Prindle, 1999.

Articles:

"Japanese Consanguineal Kin Terms," Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 14, No. 5 (May 1972), pp. 182-95.

"Polite Forms of Japanese Speech" Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 23, No. 5 (1981), pp. 209-14.

"Niwa o tagayasu (I Plough the Garden) by Taeko Tomioka: A Translation and Interpretation," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars Vol. 14, No. 4 (1982), pp. 66-70.

“Romance in Money: The Phenomenon of Japanese Business Novels,” Journal of Teachers of Japanese Vol. 25, No. 2 (November 1991), pp. 195-215.

“Shiroyama Saburô, Godfather of Business Novels,” Japan Quarterly Vol. 40, No. 3 (July-September 1993), pp. 320-28.

"Itami Jûzô no posutomodan eiga" [Itami Jûzô's Postmodern Films] I: Agora Vol. 195 (May 1994), pp. 68-79; II: Vol. 196 (June 1994), pp. 80-88; III: Vol. 197 (July 1994), pp. 58-71.

"Keizai o shôsetsu ni suru josei-sei: Shimizu Ikkô no Dômyaku rettô no baai" [Femininity that transforms business into fiction: the case of Ikkô Shimizu's Artery Archipelago] Tokyo: Agora Vol. 212 (November 1995), pp. 123-143.

"Globally Yours: Tampopo as a Postmodern Film," Japan Studies: Publication of the Center for Japan Studies at Teikyo Loretto Heights University Number 1 (1996), pp. 61-71.

“Female Identities that Transform Business Data into a 'Business Novel’: A Reading of Shimizu Ikkô's The Artery Archipelago.” Japan Studies: Publication of the Center for Japan Studies at Teikyo Loretto Heights University Number 2 (1997), pp. 54-67.

“Research Report: Whores, Mothers, Girls, and Women in Japanese Cinema: Identity Politics” The Japan Foundation Newsletter (November 1996), pp. 10-13.

“‘Karayuki-san’ eiga ni okeru ‘otoko no jikan’ to ‘onna no jikan’” [“Man’s Time” and “Woman’s Time” in “Karayuki-san” Films] Nichibei Josei Jânaru [U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal] No. 21 (1997).

“A Cocooned Identity: Japanese Girl Films: Nobuhiko Oobayashi’s Chizuko’s Younger Sister and Jun Ichikawa’s Tsugumi.” Postscript Vol. 18, No. 1 (Fall 1998), pp. 24-37.

“Self-sacrificing Mothers or Frustrated Mothers?: A Paradigm Shift of Motherhood in Modern Japan.” Japan Studies: Publication of the Center for Japan Studies at Teikyo Loretto Heights University Number 3. (1999), pp. 85-101.

“A Game of Sexuality: Kinugasa Teinosuke’s Film, Gate of Hell (1953).” PMAJLS: Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Studies Vol. 5 (1999), pp. 274-285.

“Kurosawa Akira’s No Regrets for Our Youth (1946).” Postscript Vol. 20, No. 1 (Fall 2000), pp. 10 - 22.

Creative Writing:

"Ten Revolutionary Poems." In Gamut (Pullman: Washington State University Press) Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 1970) , pp. 5-11.

Translation of Short Stories (with Introduction):

"Shimizu Ikkô's 'Silver Sanctuary' (Gin no seiiki) as a Japanese Business Novel/ A Translation." In Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 17, No. 3 (July-September 1985), pp. 17-27.

"Love and the Branch Manager." In Harper's Magazine (June 1986), pp. 27-28.

"Shimizu Ikkô's 'Silver Sanctuary' (Gin no Seiiki) as a Japanese Business Novel/ A Translation." In The Other Japan. Ed. E. Patricia Tsurumi. (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe 1988), pp. 119-129.

Japanese Business Novels. In Japanese Economic Studies Vol. 18, No.1 (Fall 1989).

"A Longer Vacation," Harvard Business Review (May-June 1991), pp. 138-147.

“To Overcome the Yen Appreciation,” Management Today (April 1992), pp. 62-71.

“Shimizu Ikkô’s ‘Silver Sanctuary’ (Gin no seiiki): A Japanese Business Novel.” In The Other Japan: Conflict, Compromise, and Resistance Since 1945. New Edition. Ed. Joe Moore. (Armonk: M.E. Sharpe 1997), pp. 96-116.

Review Articles:

"Natsume Sôseki's The Miner, "Pacific Affairs (Spring 1990) Vol. 63, No. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 104-06.

"The Paper Door and Other Stories by Shiga Naoya, Translated by Lane Dunlop, and A Late Chrysanthemum: Twenty-one Stories from the Japanese, Translated by Lane Dunlop," The Journal of the Association for Asian Studies, Vol. 50, No. 2 (May 1991), pp. 418-419.

“Talking Business In Japanese by Mami Doi et al.,” Journal of the Association of Japanese Vol. 26, No. 1 (April 1992), pp. 63-66.

“All about Particles by Naoko Chino.” Review panel with Yukiko Abe Hatasa, Mari Noda, and Ann Wehmeyer. Journal of the Association of Japanese Vol. 26, No. 2 (November 1992), pp. 225-26.

“A Handbook of Japanese Usage by Francis G. Drohan.” Review panel with Laurel Rodd, and Karen Sandness. Journal of the Association of Japanese Vol. 27, No. 2 (November 1993), pp. 287-88.

“Strategies for Reading Japanese: A rational Approach to the Japanese Sentence by Setsuko Aihara with Graham Parkes.” Review panel with Laurel Rodd, and Karen Sandness. Journal of the Association of Japanese Vol. 27, No. 2 (November 1993), pp. 288-90.

“Written Japanese: An Introduction by David Ashworth and Ikumi Hitosugi. Review panel with Kimberly Jones, and Suwako Watanabe.” Journal of the Association of Japanese Vol. 27, No. 2 (November 1993), pp. 290-92.

“Vera Mackie, Creating Socialist Women in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 1977),” Journal of Asian and African Studies. XXXIII.4 (1998), pp. 384-85.

Invited Lectures:

"Japanese Women," for Women's Studies (Asian Studies), Cornell University 1984, and 1985.

"Japanese Business Novels," for Modern Japanese Fiction (Asian Studies), Cornell University, 1984.

"Japanese Haiku poetry," at Lawrence High School, 1987.

"Japanese Kinship Terms," for The Nature of Language class (Anthropology), Colby College, 1987.

"Japanese Business and Economy," for The Senior Seminar in Business Administration, Colby College, 1987.

"Chinese and Japanese writing systems," for Freshman Seminar on Science and Technology, Colby College, 1988 and 1989, Colby College Comparative World Studies Lunch Hour Colloquium, 1989, and Anthropology 113, 1989.

"Japanese Business Novels: What Are They?" Presented at Comparative World Studies Luncheon Seminar at Colby College, 1990.

"Feminizing a Masculine Text." Presented at Bates College, 1990.

“Matsuo Bashô’s Haiku” with Portland String Quartet, 1991 and 1992.

"Jacques Lacan's Female Sexuality." Colby College Women's Studies Reading Session, 1994.

"Fiction is Our Business, Business is Our Fiction." Wesleyan University, The Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies Colloquia, 1994.

"Female Identities that Transform Business Data into a 'Business Novel.': A Reading of Shimizu Ikkô's The Artery Archipelago." Presented at the "Japanese Identity: Cultural Analysis" Symposium at Teikyô Loretto Heights University, Denver Colorado, 1995.

"Mori Ogai no Shôsetsu to Toyoda Shirô no eiga Gan [Mori Ogai's Novel and Toyoda Shirô's Film, Wild Geese]." Presented at Ochanomizu Women's University Monthly Colloquia, 1995.

“Karayuki-san Films and Sandakan Brothel No. 8.” Presented at the Ochanomizu University and Waseda University Film and Gender Studies Joint Seminar, 1995.

"Feminism and Cinema." Presented at the WIN Luncheon in Nagoya, 1995.

"Karayuki Films from Feminist Perspectives." Presented at the Associated Kyoto Program at Dôshisha University, 1995.

“An Ecological Feminist View of Japanese Mother Films.” Presented at Social Sciences and Humanities Colloquium at Colby College, 1996.

“Japanese Business Novels: An Overview.” Presented at the University of Pittsburgh, March 1997.

“Suspended Identities: Japanese Films on Girls.” Presented at North Carolina State University, April 1997.

“Her-story: History of Japanese Women.” Presented at NCTA (National Consortium for Teaching About Asia) Symposium sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council. Bowdoin College, ME. June 2002.

“The Tale of Genji and The Pillow Book.” Presented at the NCTA (National Consortium for Teaching about Asia) at Bangor High School. March 2003.

“Translation East and West.” Panel discussion at Bates College. October 2003.

Conference Papers:

"Japanese Business Novels: An Introduction," Presented at the ATJ Coffee Seminar in conjunction with the AAS annual meeting, 1985.

"U.S.-Japan Trade Relationship as a Japanese Business Novel." Presented at the AAS annual conference, 1986.

"Saikaku's Amorous Woman Touched by French Feminist Perspectives." Presented at the Colby College Women's Studies Conference, 1986.

"Japanese Honorific and Humble Terms." Presented at the First New England Region Japanese Teachers' Pedagogical Workshop at Harvard University, 1986.

"A Hotel Man as a Picaro: Seiichi Morimura's Silver Hotel (Gin no hoteru)." Presented at the New York region AAS annual conference, 1986.

"The Nature of Aggression in a Japanese Stock Novel: Jirô Yasuda's Money Hunter (Manê hantâ)." Presented at the New England region AAS annual conferenc, 1986.

"Future Directions of the Japanese Teachers' Workshop." Presented at the New England region Japanese teachers' pedagogical workshop, 1987.

"Japanese Politicians' Power Contest through the Usage of Particles ne and yo." Presented at the 1987 New England AAS conference, 1987.

"Femininity in a Japanese Business Novel." Presented at the Sixth Annual Women's Studies Colloquium: Scholarship on Women at Colby College, 1987.

"The Japanese Overseas Businessman in Japanese Literature." Presented in the East Asian Investment in Arizona's Future Conference at Phoenix, Arizona, 1988.

"Images of Americans in Japanese Business Novels." Presented at the Walls Between Us: Images of Westerners in Japan and Images of the Japanese Abroad, the International Symposium at the University of British Columbia, 1988.

"Problems and Solutions in Teaching Japanese." Presented at the Third New England Region Japanese Teachers' Pedagogical Workshop at Wesleyan University, 1988.

“A Magical Mystery Tour of Japan: Social Realism and its Roots in Japanese Literature and Culture as Exemplified by the Renowned Author Matsumoto Seichô." Panel discussion at New York Japan Society, sponsored by Japan Society and Writers’ Production, 1989.

"Can Women in Japanese Business Novels Wear Cinderella's Glass Shoes?" Presented at the 1990 New England AAS conference at Smith College, 1990.

"Women in Japanese Business Novels." Presented at the Tenth Annual Women's Studies Colloquium: Scholarship on Women at Colby College, 1991.

"Japanese Business Novels as Language Texts." Presented at 1991 ATJ Thursday Seminar in conjunction with the AAS Annual conference, 1991.

"Sandakan Brothel No. 8." Presented at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 45th Annual Convention, November, 1991.

“Macintosh Software for Japanese Teaching Material Making.” Presented at the Sixth New England Region Japanese Teachers’ Pedagogial Workshop at Middlebury College, 1992.

“A Socialist Feminist Analysis of The Life of Oharu.” Presented at the 46th RMLA Conference, 1992.

"Desu Substitution in Response Sentences." Presented at the Seventh New England Region Japanese Teachers' Pedagogical Workshop at Trinity College, 1993.

"Itami Jûzô's Postmodern Films." Presented at New England Japan Seminar at Tufts University, 1994.

"Globally Yours: Itami Jûzô's Tampopo." Presented at Globalization of Japan and the Japanese Conference at Teikyo Loretto Heights University, 1994.

"Love and Romance in Japanese Films." Presented at AAS National Conference, 1995.

“Images of Women in Karayuki-san Films.” Presented at the Virginia Consortium for Asian Studies “Images of Asian Women” Conference at Old Dominion University, 1995.

“Self-sacrificing Mothers or Frustrated Mothers?: A Paradigm Shift of Motherhood in Modern Japan.” Presented at the “Japan in the 20th Century: Viewed from International Perspectives” Conference at Teikyo Loretto Heights University, 1996.

“Money, Sex, and Power: A Socialist Feminist Analysis of Mori Ogai’s The Wild Geese and Toyoda Shirô’s The Mistress.” Presented at the 1997 AAS Convention in Chicago.

“In the Lacuna of Identities: Girls in Japanese Cinema.” Presented at the “Japanese Popular Culture” Conference at University of Victoria, 1997.

“A Game of Sexuality: Kinugasa Teinosuke’s Film, Gate of Hell (1953).” Presented at the MAJLS: Midwest Association for Japanese literary Studies: Love and Sexuality in Japanese Literature Conference at Purdue University, 1998.

“Crying Over Mothers’ Images: A Phenomenology of Japanese ‘Mother Picture (hahamono).” Presented at the 14th Annual Maine Women’s Studies Conference at the University of Maine at Augusta, 1999.

“Jungian Idemitsu.” Presented at Japanese Women Filmmakers Conference at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 2000.

“Did Japanese Sexuality Change?” Presented at the 15th Annual Maine Women’s Studies Conference at the Universityof Maine at Orono, 2000.

“Sexuality as a Sign (kigô): Takahashi Tomoaki’s New Love in Tokyo.” Presented at the 2001 AAS Conference in Chicago, 2001.

“Borrowing the Power of the Power Point.” Presented at the 15th JLTA-New England Conference. Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 2001.

“Expressing the Unspoken: Mori Ogai’s Novel, The Wild Geese [Gan, 1915] and Toyoda Shiro’s Film, The Mistress [Gan, 1953].” Presented at New England AAS, Williams College, MA, 2001.

“Creating Grade Sheets with MicroSoft Excel.” Presented at the Thirteenth Mid-Atlantic Japanese Pedagogy Workshop, Washington and Lee University. 2003.

“Why Did She?: Film Version Versus Television Adaptation of Makiko Uchidate’s Love and Lie(Gimu to Engi 1996).” Presented at the WSSA (The Western Social Science Association) 45th Annual Conference. April 2003.

“Comparison of the Film and Television Versions of Love and Lie From an Existential Point of View.” Presented at the 22nd Annual Colby College Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Colloqia. February 6, 2004.

“Time-Saving Ways to Make Teaching Materials.” Presented at the 18th Annual JLTA-New England at Wellesley College. June 12, 2004.

“Understanding the Differences: The Case of Love and Lie (Gimu to Engi 1996).” Presented at The Second International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities at Monarch University Center in Prato, Italy. July 2004.

“Teaching Japanese Culture to K-16 with Itami Juzô’s ‘Tampopo’.” Presented at the Third Asia in the Curriculum at Indiana University. September 2004.

“Marxist Feminist Assessment of Mother’s Housework: The Case of a Japanese Film, Okâsan (Mother, 1952).” Presented at West Virginia University 29th Colloquium on Literature and Film at the University of West Virginia. October 2004.

Panels:

1987: Organized and chaired the "Deconstruction of Silence: Analyses of the Unspoken Messages in Chinese, Indian, Shri Lankan and Japanese Literature" panel at the 1987 New England Association for Asian Studies Conference at Tufts University.

1988: Chaired the "Images of Americans in Japanese Novels" at the Walls Between Us: Images of Westerners in Japan and Images of the Japanese Abroad International Symposium at the University of British Columbia.

1989: Chaired the "International Women" panel at the Fourth Annual Women's Studies Conference, sponsored by Colby College.

1990: Chaired and coordinated the Japan panel of the "Perestroika in Education, China, Japan, and Russia" Conference at Colby College.

1990: Organized and chaired the "Centrality and Marginality of Women/Femininity in Japanese Literature" panel at the 1990 New England AAS conference at Smith College.

1991: Organized and Chaired the "Japanese Business Novels as Language Texts" panel for the ATJ Thursday Seminar in New Orleans.

1991: Organized and hosted the Fifth New England Region Japanese Teachers' Pedagogical Workshop at Colby College.

1992: Chaired the "Media Based Japanese Learning" panel at the Sixth New England Region Japanese Teachers' Pedagogical Workshop at Middlebury College.

1993: Chaired the "Classroom Stragegies" panel at the Seventh New England Region Japanese Teachers' Pedagogical Workshop at Trinity College.

1995: Chaired the morning sessions at the Nineth New England Region Japanese Teachers’ Pedagogical Workshop at Brown University.

1995: Discussant in the "Towards Gender Incorporated Courses" workshop at The Women's Studies Association of Japan 1995 Fall Conference at Oitemon Gakuin University, Osaka.

1996: Discussant for William Tsutsui, “The Making of ‘Japanese-style Management’: Imitation, Innovation, and Cultural Change” panel at the Japan in the 20th Century: Viewed from International Perspectives Conference at Teikyo Loretto Heights University, Denver.

2003 “Translation East and West.” Panel discussion at Bates College.

Grants and Awards:

Tokyo-to Ikuei-kai Scholarship, Gakushûin University, 1963-65.

Tuition waiver, SUNY at Binghamton, 1965-68.

Asian Studies Tuition and Fees Fellowship, Cornell University, 1982-84.

International Studies Travel Grant, Cornell University, 1984.

Mellon Course Development Grant, Summer 1990.

Summer Research Fund, Colby College, 1991.

Japan Foundation "The Research/Conference/Seminar Program" Grant, 1991.

Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies Grant, 1991.

Japan Forum Grant, 1991.

Colby College "Instructional Development Grant," 1991.

Harvard-Yenching Library Research Grant, 1992.

Hewlett Curruculum Development Grant 1993.

Colby College Humanities Grant, 1986, 1994, 1995.

Japan Foundation Research Fellowship, 1995-1996.

Mellon Computer Software Development Grant, 1996.

Associated Kyoto Program Faculty Fellow, 1997.

Mellon Foundation Student Assistant Grant, 1997-8.

CBB Mellon Webpage Development Grant, 1998.

Faculty Travel Grant, Colby College, two to five trips yearly, 1985~2000.

Services Beyond Colby since 1992:

Associated Kyoto Program Executive Board member: 1992-1995;

New England Region Japanese Teachers' Pedagogical Workshop, Executive Board member: 1992-1995;

Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of New England, President: 1997-present;

Professorship evaluation for Michiko Niikuni Wilson (University of Virginia) 1998;

Tenure evaluator for Kikuko Yamashita (Brown University) 1998;

Promotion evaluator for Hiroshi Tajima (Brown University) 1999;

External referee for Journal of Comparative Drama 1999;

External referee for Postscript 1999;

Overseer for the Wake Forest East Asian Languages and Literatures Program 2000.

Tenure evaluator for David Phillips (Wake Forest University) 2000.

Maine-Aomori Sister State Advisory Council member 2001-present.

Tenure evaluation for Mark Silver (Colgate University) 2002;

Tenure evaluation for Hiroko Harada (University of Alaska Anchorage) 2002.

Tenure evaluation for Sarah Pradt (Macalleser College) 2004.

Professional Membership:

Association of Teachers of Japanese: 1984-present;

Visiting Researchership, University of Tokyo, 1984.

Association for Asian Studies: 1985-present;

Japanese Language Teachers’ Association of New England: 1986-present;

New York Region Association for Asian Studies: 1985-87;

New England Japan Seminar: 1985-present;

Maine Asian Studies Association: 1985-present;

Associated Kyoto Program college representative: 1990-present;

Visiting Reseacher, Ochanomizu Women's University, 1995-96;

Associated Kyoto Program Research Fellow, Doshisha University, Kyoto 1997;

Harvard University, Edwin O. Reishauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Research Associate: 1991-present.

Association for Japanese Literary Studies: 1997-present.

National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT): 2001-present.

Current Research and Projects:

Women in Japanese Cinema: Her-story (a book).