Dr. Rei Magosaki
- Education:
- Amherst College, Bachelor of Arts
The University of Virginia, Ph.D.
Biography
Rei Magosaki is a specialist in the field of twentieth- and twenty-first century American literature and culture.
Dr. Magosaki’s monograph, Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production (Fordham UP, 2016), is the first sustained exploration into the history of cross-cultural collaborations between Asian American writers and their non-Asian American editors and publishers. A documentation of the dramatically changing publishing history from the late nineteenth century through the age of global capitalism, the book reveals a range of negotiations between authors and their publishers, between their shared investment in both politics and aesthetics which influenced the narrative structure of key works in major works of Asian American narrative fiction.
Her latest research interest is on WWII Japanese American wartime incarceration literature. Dr. Magosaki was the recipient of Chapman University’s faculty grant for scholarly activity in 2011, 2012, and 2019, and an inaugural fellow at University of Tulsa's 2023 Second Book Institute.
Courses taught:300-level and 500-level seminars on Multicultural literatures of the U.S., Asian American Literature, American Short Stories, Native American literature, the Graphic Novel, and Japanese Literature in Translation.
Faculty Research
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- “The Global Citizen and Troubled Narration in Bharati Mukherjee's The Middleman and Other Stories” in Reflections on World Literatures. Ed. Nilanshu Agarwal (Jaipur: Yking Books, 2011)
- “An Introduction to U.S. Literary Criticism in the Twentieth Century,” Nihongo Kyouiku to Tekusuto Ron[Japanese Education and Theories of Textual Analysis]. Ed. Yasue Suzuki, Shin Takagi, Kouitsuro Sukegawa, Tomooki Kuroki (Tokyo: Hitsuji Shobo Press, 2009).