Susan J. Napier

Biography

Susan J. Napier is a renowned professor of Japanese literature and culture, formerly the Mitsubishi Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She has also held visiting professorships at Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, and has published extensively on Japanese fiction, including "Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo" in 1991.