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Michael K. Bourdaghs
Michael K. Bourdaghs is the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of three monographs, most recently A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature (Duke University Press, 2021). He is a prolific translator, including Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of World History: From Modes of Production to Modes of Exchange (Duke University Press, 2014). He is currently working on a book about the cultures of Cold War Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Asian literature from Cornell University and has been a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Japan Foundation, among others.
Contact: EALC, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.