Intellect

Noboru Tomonari is director of the East Asian Studies Program and an associate professor of Japanese at Carleton College, specializing in Japanese literature and cinema. He is the author of Constructing Subjectivities: Autobiographies of Modern Japan (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008). His recent research focuses on minorities in Japanese literature and cinema, and he has published articles on resident Koreans and burakumin. He is currently working on his second book, which is on resident Korean film-makers in Japan.