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Michael Emmerich’s scholarly interests in Japanese literature range from the classical, court-centered prose and poetry of the Heian period to the popular printed fiction of the early modern age, and on from there to the prose fiction of modern and contemporary times. His engagement with the literary products of these diverse periods is informed by a sensitivity to the material and visual forms that writing takes, and by an academic commitment to translation studies with its potential for approaching literature in a manner relatively unconstrained by linguistic and temporal boundaries, both among and within nations. His book The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature (Columbia University Press, 2013) examines the rol Michael Emmerich’s scholarly interests in Japanese literature range from the classical, court-centered prose and poetry of the Heian period to the popular printed fiction of the early modern age, and on from there to the prose fiction of modern and contemporary times. His engagement with the literary products of these diverse periods is informed by a sensitivity to the material and visual forms that writing takes, and by an academic commitment to translation studies with its potential for approaching literature in a manner relatively unconstrained by linguistic and temporal boundaries, both among and within nations. His book The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature (Columbia University Press, 2013) examines the role that translations of Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji) into early-modern and modern Japanese, and into English and other languages, have played in creating images of the tale over the past two centuries—reinventing it as a classic of both national and world literature. He is currently working on a project that explores the concept of “translation” as it relates to Japan and to various forms of the Japanese language.

In addition to his many publications in English and Japanese on early modern, modern, and contemporary Japanese literature, Emmerich is the author of more than a dozen book-length translations of works by writers such as Kawabata Yasunari, Yoshimoto Banana, Takahashi Gen’ichirō, Akasaka Mari, Yamada Taichi, Matsuura Rieko, Kawakami Hiromi, Furukawa Hideo, and Inoue Yasushi. He is also the editor of two books for students of the Japanese language: Read Real Japanese: Fiction and New Penguin Parallel Texts: Short Stories in Japanese.

Emmerich’s research has been generously supported by a number of grants, including a Fulbright Scholarship and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies. He was also the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University’s Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, from 2008-2009.

Emmerich received a BA from Princeton University. After completing research in Japanese literature studies at Ritsumeikan University in Tokyo, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University. He was a member of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies department at UC Santa Barbara before joining UCLA in 2013. ...more

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	The Book of Tokyo: A City in Short Fiction by Michael Emmerich (Editor), Jim Hinks (Editor), Masashi Matsuie (Editor) 3.53 avg rating — 1,290 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Short Stories in Japanese: New Penguin Parallel Text 3.75 avg rating — 345 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Read Real Japanese Fiction: Short Stories by Contemporary Writers by Michael Emmerich (Editor), Hiromi Kawakami, Otsuichi 4.22 avg rating — 273 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Things Michigan State Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things...Fans Should Know) 4.25 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	100 Things Mariners Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die (100 Things...Fans Should Know) 3.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scenery Tips and Techniques: Projects and Ideas That Will Bring Your Layout to Life by Michael Emmerich, Model Railroader 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1989 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	EVOLVE – A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics and Evolutionary Computation VII (Studies in Computational Intelligence, 662) by Michael Emmerich (Editor), André Deutz (Editor), Oliver Schütze (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	EVOLVE – A Bridge between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics and Evolutionary Computation VII (Studies in Computational Intelligence Book 662) by Michael Emmerich (Editor), André Deutz (editor), Oliver Schütze (editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	EVOLVE - A Bridge Between Probability, Set Oriented Numerics, and Evolutionary Computation IV: International Conference Held at Leiden University, July 10-13, 2013 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, #227) by Michael Emmerich (Editor), André Deutz (Editor), Oliver Schuetze (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“When problems at home or relationships at work get strange, every morning you can take in the air through your nose, feel the sunlight rest on your eyelids, feel your bed with your fingers. Just being alive – it’s great. That I just continue to be alive is great. Morning is absolutely beautiful.”
― Michael Emmerich, The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction

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“You need other people, to give your own life a sense of purpose. No, that’s not it. People just want to be close.”
― Michael Emmerich, The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction

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“Observing is an action that you can lose yourself in, but is existence… is existence an action?”
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