Kimberly Kono - 2009 Sherrerd Prize Recipient

Kimberly Kono joined the colleges Department of East Asian Languages and Literature in 2001 after completing her undergraduate, master's and doctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley. At Smith, she teaches courses on modern Japanese literature and language. Her course Constructions of Gender in Modern Japanese Womens Writing, for example, explores the intersections of gender and national identity in selected poetry, fiction and memoirs by Japanese women throughout the 20th Century. Kono is on the advisory committees for the Program in East Asian Studies and the Program for the Study of Women and Gender. Her book Romantic and Familial Love in Japanese Colonial Literature is forthcoming from Palgrave. She was the recipient of a Picker Fellowship at Smith in 2003. In 2004-05 she taught at Cornell University as a Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching-Research Fellow.

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Hooray, Kim! Beautiful video.