Professor
German/Russian/East Asian Languages, Asian Studies
Professor of Japanese, Joan Ericson teaches Japanese literature, language, and culture courses. Raised in Japan, she is bilingual and bicultural, and holds degrees in Japanese Literature from the University of Hawai'i and Columbia University. She has published on the development of the concept of modern Japanese women's literature, and is embarking on a new project on the representation of childhood and children's literature. During the academic year 2010-2011, she was a Fulbright Research Scholar at Doshisha University in Kyoto.
Ericson recently organized an exhibition and series of events called Voices from Japan: Perspectives on Disaster and Hope that is held at Colorado College. This program presents art generated after the March 2011 disasters in Japan.
Contact Info
(719) 389-6567
Armstrong Hall #339
Areas: Japanese Language, Japanese Literature, Japanese Culture
First year at Colorado College: 1996
Education
B.A., French, California Lutheran College
M.A., French Literature, University of Southern California
M.A., Japanese Literature, University of Hawaii at Manoa
M. Phil., Japanese Literature, Columbia University
Affiliated Research Student (Kenkyusei), Tokyo University
Ph.D., Japanese Literature, Columbia University