Orna Shaughnessy

Visiting Instructor in Japanese

Contact 309-341-7519 oshaughn@knox.edu

General Interests
"My research interests stem from my fundamental interest in the intersection of literary aesthetics and cultural politics: these include the novel in a comparative context, Translation Studies, Urban Studies, interpretive communities and literary coteries, and popular culture."

Years at Knox: 2011 to present

Education
Ph.D. candidate, University at California, Berkeley.
M.A., Japanese Literature, 2006, University of California, Berkeley.
B.A., English, 1996, University of California, Davis.

Teaching Interests
Japanese language and literature

Selected Professional Accomplishments

Honors/Grants
Mellon Foundation Faculty Career Enhancement Award, Knox College, 2011-2012.
Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of
California, Berkeley, Graduate Fellow, 2010-2011.
U.C. Society of Fellows in the Humanities, member, 2010-2011.
Fulbright IIE Graduate Research Fellow, 2007-2008.
Foreign Language & Area Studies Award (FLAS), University of California, Berkeley 2001- 2002.

Presentations
"Exploring International Urban Spaces in Japanese Travel Narratives of the Late Nineteenth Century," on Panel 515 "Urban Culture: Literature and the City in Early Modern Asia," Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Seattle, January 7, 2012.

"Rambling with Style: Exploring International Entrepots in Japanese Travel Narratives of the Late 19th Century," Spatial Imaginaries and Critical Geographies Across the Pacific, UC Santa Cruz, February 27, 2010.

"Strike! Representations of Crowds and Violence in the works of Kobayashi Takiji and other contemporary cultural productions," presented in absentia2008 Kobayashi Takiji Memorial Symposium at Oxford, Oxford University, England, September 2008.

"Noguchi Hiroshi's Proletarian Aesthetics" on panel "Japanese Proletarian Literature," Association for Asian Studies, Boston Massachusetts, March 2007.

Member, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
Member, Association of Asian Studies (AAS).
Member, Association for Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS).
Member, Early Modern Japan Network, a subgroup of AAS.
Member, Kanagaki Robun kenkyûkai, hosted by the Kokubungaku kenkyû shiryôkan.
Member, Modern Language Association (MLA).
Member, Premodern Japanese Studies (PMJS).