Curriculum Vitae (August 2023)

KODAI ABE | 阿部幸大
Assistant Professor at University of Tsukuba, Japan
abe.kodai.gp@u.tsukuba.ac.jp | kodaiabe.com#A621 Jimbun-Shakai Bldg, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0006

Education
2023
2014
2012

PhD, Comparative Literature, Binghamton University
MA, Contemporary Literary Studies, The University of Tokyo
BA, Contemporary Literary Studies, The University of Tokyo

Professional History2023–
2018–22
2014–17

Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Research Assistant, Binghamton University (w/Prof. David Stahl)
Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles“Afro-Asian Antagonism and the Long Korean War.” Forthcoming in American Literature 95, no. 4(2023).
“Murakami Haruki’s Postmemory of the Asia Pacific War.” Forthcoming in the Journal of AsianStudies 82, no. 4 (2023).
“Refoliating Vietnam in the Post-9/11 American Homeland: Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace.”
Forthcoming in Discourse 45, no. 1–2 (2023).
[Japanese] “Reading Woolf Against Trauma: Shell Shock and Gender in Mrs. Dalloway.” Hyosho
17 (2023): 108–23.
“‘I Would Cry for You, Mommy’: A Korean American Daughter’s Response-Ability in Nora
Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman.” Journal of Asian American Studies 23, no. 1 (2020): 125–47.

Abe 2“Translating Trauma: Melancholic Love and Ugly Feelings in Beloved.” The Journal of American
Literature Society of Japan 19 (2020): 1–19. *Young Scholar Award of the American
Literature Society of Japan*“‘The Ad Hoc Adventure’: Pynchon’s Ecological Nationalism in Gravity’s Rainbow.” Studies inEnglish Literature 96 (2019): 19–36. *Young Scholar Award of English Literary Society ofJapan*[Japanese] “Sloth and Care in Thomas Pynchon’s V.” The Journal of the American Literature Society ofJapan 55 (2018): 1–18.
Book Reviews
Review of Warring Visions: Photography and Vietnam, by Thy Phu. Journal of Asian American Studies(2023): 287–89.
Review of Minor Transpacific: Triangulating American, Japanese, and Korean Fictions, by David S. Roh.
MELUS 47, no. 2 (2022): 219–21.
Review of Tonal Intelligence: The Aesthetics of Asian Inscrutability during the Long Cold War, by Sunny
Xiang. Modern Fiction Studies 67, no. 4 (2021): 786–88.
Review of Traffic in Asian Women, by Laura Hyun Yi Kang. Journal of Asian American Studies 24, no.
2 (2021): 340–42.
Review of Thomas Pynchon: Empire, War, System, and the Lives of Preterits, by Yoshihiro Nagano. Orbit
9, no. 1 (2021).
Presentations“Between Two Ground Zeros: Hiroshima, 9/11, and the Nuclear Pacific.” American Studies
Association, Montreal, November 2023.
“Archipelagic Counterpoetics against Transpacific Nuclear Colonialism.” Modern Language
Association, San Francisco, January 2023.
“Transgenerational Commitment: Murakami Haruki’s Postmemory of the Asia Pacific War.”New York Conference on Asian Studies, Syracuse, October 2022.
“The Transpacific Afterlife of Korean Comfort Women.” American Comparative Literature
Association, Taipei [online], June 2022. *Horst Frenz Prize*“Two Ground Zeros: The Transpacific Victimology of Hiroshima and 9/11.” American Studies
Association, San Juan, PR [online], October 2021. *Yasuo Sakakibara Prize*

Abe 3“The Afro-Asia Victimology of the Korean War.” Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic
Literature of the United States, Indianapolis [online], March 2021.
“Outsider Response-Ability: How to Persuade the Transpacific Postmemory Generation.”
American Comparative Literature Association, Montreal [online], April 2021.
“Trauma, Postwar, and Response-Ability in Murakami Haruki’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.”
New York Conference on Asian Studies, Rochester, September 2018.
[Japanese] “Rethinking Magical Realism: Pre-modern, Anti-modern, and Post-modern.” Japan
Association for Latin American Studies, Tokyo, April 2017.
[Japanese] “Imperialism, America, Biopolitics: Thomas Pynchon’s V. as a Post-WWII Novel.”
The American Society of Literature in Japan, Tokyo, September 2016.
[Japanese] “War, Globalization, Magical Realism: Tim O’Brien’s Going After Cacciato.” The 4th
Cross-Lingual Network Conference, Tokyo, April 2016.
Courses Taught
University of Tsukuba, Japan
Graduate
Modern Culture Studies
Undergraduate
Introduction to American and European Studies
Comparative Cultural Studies
Academic Writing
Academic Reading
English Presentation Skills
English Test-Taking PracticeBinghamton University
Undergraduate
COLI 210: Literature and Psychology (“Japan-U.S. Interimperialism”)
Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Undergraduate
American Novel
Technical Devices of the Novel
Ochanomizu University, Japan

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Undergraduate
Basic English
Intermediate English
Tokyo University of the Arts, Japan
Undergraduate
EnglishService2021–22

Manuscript Reviewer, MELUS

Awards2022
2022–232021
2021–222019–222020
20192019–20
2017–19
2014–17

Horst Frenz Prize, American Comparative Literature Association
Dissertation Year Fellowship, Binghamton University
Yasuo Sakakibara Prize, American Studies Association
Uehiro Foundation Grant
Japan Student Services Organization Scholarship
The 11th Young Scholar Award of the American Literature Society of JapanThe 42nd Young Scholar Award of English Literary Society of Japan
Fulbright Foundation Scholarship, YKK Fellow
Fulbright ScholarshipResearch Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science