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J. Scott Miller

Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature

Japanese Language and Literature

Office 3073 JFSB
Office Phone (801) 422-5225
Email scott_miller@byu.edu

PhD, Princeton University, 1988.

J. Scott Miller, Alcuin Fellow and Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, received his B.A. from BYU in comparative literature and later earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian studies from Princeton University. He was an associate professor of Japanese at Colgate University prior to joining the faculty at BYU in 1994. He has served as Asian Studies Coordinator in the David M. Kennedy Center, Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and Honors Program Director, and is currently co-director of BYU's International Cinema program.

Research Interests

  • Nineteenth-century and modern Japanese literature
  • Oral narrative and translation theory
  • Early Japanese sound recordings

Recent Publications

  • The I of the Beholder: Prolegomenon to the Intercultural Study of Self (ICLA,2002)
  • Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan (Palgrave, 2001)
  • Japanese audio CD entitled "Oppekepe' Restored: the Kawakami Troupe at the 1900 Paris Exposition"
  • Library exhibition Looking Inward, Looking Outward: Japanese Representations of Self and Other (http://net.lib.byu.edu/scm/japanese/)
  • Articles in Monumenta Nipponica, Oral Tradition, The Dictionary of Literary Biography, and Artes
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