Matthew Fraleigh

Title

Assistant Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture

Film Studies
German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature

Expertise

Classical and modern Japanese literature and language, cultural and literary exchange between China and Japan; literature of travel

Degrees

Harvard University, Ph.D.

Harvard University, A.M.

Stanford University, B.A.S.

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Contact

Email:	fraleigh@brandeis.edu
Phone:	781-736-3229
Office:	Shiffman, 111

Awards and Honors

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow (2009)

Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Postdoctoral Fellow (2005)

Blakemore Foundation Grant (2002)

Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow (2000)

Courses Taught

COML	146b	Classical East Asian Poetics
JAPN	120a	Readings in Contemporary Japanese Literature
JAPN	120b	Readings in Modern Japanese Literature
JAPN	125b	Putting Away Childish Things: Coming of Age in Modern Japanese Literature and Film
JAPN	130a	The Literature of Multicultural Japan
JAPN	135a	Screening National Images: Japanese Film and Anime in Global Context
JAPN	140a	The World of Early Modern Japanese Literature
JAPN	145a	The World of Classical Japanese Literature
USEM	66a	The "West" through "Eastern" Eyes: Modern Chinese and Japanese Travels Abroad

Scholarship

Narushima Ryuhoku; trans. Matthew Fraleigh. "Ryukyo shinshi - New Chronicles of Yanagibashi." An Anthology of Meiji Literature. Ed. Sumie Jones, Robert Campbell, and Charles Inouye. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009 (forthcoming)

Narushima Ryûhoku; trans. Matthew Fraleigh. New Chronicles of Yanagibashi and Diary of a Journey to the West: Narushima Ryûhoku Reports From Home and Abroad. Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Series, 2009. (forthcoming)

Fraleigh, Matthew. "Book Review of Laura Nenzi: /Excursions in Identity: Travel and the Intersection of Place, Gender, and Status in Edo Japan/." International Journal of Asian Studies 6. 2 (2009): 237-241.

Fraleigh, Matthew. "Crafting a Japanese Don Quixote." Serizawa: Master of Modern Japanese Textile Design. Ed. Joe Earle. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 101-105.

Fraleigh, Matthew. "Ryûhoku no gaiyû to naiyû: kûkan to jikan." Shin Nihon koten bungaku taikei Meiji hen geppô 27 (vol 5). (2009): 4-8.

Fraleigh, Matthew. "Songs of the Righteous Spirit: 'Men of High Purpose' and Their Chinese Poetry in Modern Japan." Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 69. 1 (2009): 109-171.

Fraleigh, Matthew. "The Fire Guard and the Hired Bard: Narushima Ryûhoku's parodic journalism." Parody [PAJLS]. Ed. Joshua Mostow and Sharalyn Orbaugh. West Lafayette, IN: Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2009. 17-31.

Fraleigh, Matthew. "Kokusaijin Narushima Ryûhoku no tabi shita Meiji Nihon [The Cosmopolitan Narushima Ryûhoku's travels in Meiji Japan]." Kokusai Nihon bungaku kenkyû shûkai kaigiroku 32. (2008): 49-66.

Fraleigh, Matthew. "Wang Zhaojun's New Portrait: Photography in Mid-19th Century Kanshibun." Reading Material: The Production of Narrative genres and Literary Identities (PAJLS). vol. 7 Ed. Dennis Washburn and James Dorsey. West Lafayette, IN: Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2007. 94-106.

Fraleigh, Matthew. "El ingenioso samurai Don Kihote del Japón: Serizawa Keisuke's Don Quixote Picture Book." Review of Japanese Culture and Society 18. (2006): 87-120.

Hazama Naoki; trans. Matthew Fraleigh. "On Liang Qichao's conceptions of gong and si: 'civic virtue' and 'personal virtue' in Xinminshuo." The Role of Japan in Liang Qichao's Introduction of Modern Western Civilization to China. Ed. Joshua Fogel. Berkeley: University of California Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, 2004. 205-221.

Maeda Ai; trans. Matthew Fraleigh. "Ryuhoku in Paris." Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity. Ed. James Fujii. Durham: Duke University Press, 2004. 275-294.

Saito Mareshi; trans. Matthew Fraleigh. "Liang Qichao's Consciousness of Language." The Role of Japan in Liang Qichao's Introduction of Modern Western Civilization to China. Ed. Joshua Fogel. Berkeley: University of California Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, 2004. 247-271.

Sakamoto Hiroko; trans. Matthew Fraleigh. "The Formation of National Identity in Liang Qichao and its Relationship to Gender." The Role of Japan in Liang Qichao's Introduction of Modern Western Civilization to China. Ed. Joshua Fogel. Berkeley: University of California Berkeley Center for Chinese Studies, 2004. 272-289.

Fraleigh,Matthew. "Terms of Understanding: the shôsetsu according to Tayama Katai." Monumenta Nipponica 58. 1 (2003): 43-78.

Fraleigh,Matthew. "Kôsei no Tôdôshujin: Narushima Ryûhoku 'Kôsei nichijô' to sore izen no kaigai kikôbun (Eastern Guides to the West: Narushima Ryûhoku's Kôsei nichijô and its predecessors)." Kyôto Daigaku kokubungaku ronsô 8. (2002): 64-92.

Fraleigh,Matthew. "Narushima Ryûhoku no yôkô: 'Kôsei nichijô' no shokontekusuto (Narushima Ryûhoku's Western travels: contextualizing Kôsei nichijô)." Kokugo kokubun 7. 11 (2002): 1-55.

Fraleigh,Matthew. "Narushima Ryuhoku." Modern Japanese Writers. Ed. Jay Rubin. New York: Scribners, 2001. 313-330.