Professor of Japanese Kyoko Omori has two forthcoming articles in journals on the study of Japanese literature. Her article, "Shinseinen, the Contract and Vernacular Modernism," will appear in Hermeneutical Strategies – Methods of Interpretation in the Study of Japanese Literature: The Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, and "The Shanghaied Man" will appear in Japan Modanizumu Anthology: Modernist Prose from Japan in the 1920s and 1930s.
In 2003, Omori participated in conferences of the Modern Language Association, the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, and the Comparative Modernist Cultures Seminar of the Modernist Studies Association. In March 2004 she will chair a panel called "Borders and Transgression in the Work of Itô Hiromi: A Discussion of Itô Hiromi's Work with the Writer" at the conference of the Association for Asian Studies in San Diego. She will also present a paper there titled "'An Anti-domestic Indulgence': Botanical Metabolism in Itô Hiromi's Novellas."
