Dr. Naoki Onishi
Dr. Onishi is Associate Professor of American Literature and American Studies
at International Christian University, and an authority on American literature
and U.S.-Japanese cultural relations. After graduating from I.C.U. he also
received a B.A. from Amherst in 1976, and his Ph.D. from I.C.U. in 1990.
He has taught full-time at I.C.U. since 1981, and has also been a lecturer
at Tsuda Juku, Hokuriku Gakuen Women's Junior College, Chuo University and
the University of Tokyo. From 1988 to 1989 he was a visiting scholar at
Harvard with a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
His publications include "The Letters of William S. Clark" (1986)
and a translation of Constance Rourke's "Audubon"; he has also
contributed articles on Emily Dickinson, American and Japanese society and
other such subjects to various joint publications.
Adapted from "The Asiatic Society of Japan Bulletin No. 7",
September 1994, compiled by Hugh Wilkinson.
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