Writer

Kōno Shion

Associate professor at Sophia University. Born in 1972. Studied physics and religion at Bowdoin College. Completed his doctorate in comparative literature at Princeton University, specializing in modern Japanese literature and English literature. Worked as a part-time lecturer at Princeton and a visiting assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison before taking up his present position. Was a visiting professor at Leipzig University in 2012. Works include Sekai no dokusha ni tsutaeru to iu koto (Delivering Texts to the World Reader). Has also cotranslated Azuma Hiroki’s Dōbutsuka suru posutomodan: Otaku kara mita Nihon shakai into English as Otaku: Japan's Database Animals with Jonathan E. Abel.

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last updated at : Jun 19, 2019