J. Keith Vincent, "Freud's Disciples in Japan"

Assistant Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature at Boston University.

BA, University of Kansas

MA, Columbia University

PhD, Columbia University

Below is Keith Vincent's biography from the BU website:

Keith Vincent’s research interests include modern Japanese literature, comparative literature, queer theory, novel theory, psychoanalysis, and the history and theory of translation. He has published on the work of writers including Masaoka Shiki, Mishima Yukio, Oe Kenzaburo, and Tawada Yoko. He is the co-author of Gei Sutadiizu (Gay Studies, Seidosha 1997) and the editor (in 1998) of a collection of lesbian and gay studies for the Japanese journal Gendai Shisô which helped introduce gay and lesbian studies to a Japanese readership. He has translated texts by Natsume Soseki, Okamoto Kanoko and others (into English) and essays by Lee Edelman, Douglas Crimp, and Judith Butler (into Japanese). His current book projects include Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction and a co-edited volume entitled Perversion in Modern Japan: Experiments in Psychoanalysis.

In addition, Keith Vincent is an associate researcher at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.