Steve gained two BA degrees in Chinese (1977) and Japanese (1980) from Keble College, Oxford.
He obtained a PhD in Japanese Literature from Columbia University (1993). After teaching briefly at UC Santa Barbara (1993), he became Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature at Duke University (1993-94). From 1994 he taught at SOAS, retiring in 2019 as Professor of Japanese Literature.
He lectured on various aspects of modern Japanese literature, including women’s writing, the development of a modern self-identity, and literary representations of the city.
Research interests
Modern Japanese literature, gender studies, translation studies
Publications
The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojiro
Dodd, Stephen (2014). Honolulu, HI: (University of Hawai'i Press)
1920 nendai no modanizumu to seiji: Kawabata, Yokomitsu no hikaku kara
Dodd, Stephen (2016). In: Sakai, Cécile, (eds.), Kōno, Kensuke, (eds.), Toeda, Hirokazu, (eds.), Bourdaghs, Michael K., (eds.) and Wada, Hirofumi, (eds.), Kawabata Yasunari Studies: 21 seiki ni yomitsugu tame ni. Tokyo, Japan: Kasama Shoin, pp 74-83
Dodd, Stephen (2016). In: Hutchinson, Rachael, (eds.) and Morton, Leith Douglas, (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature. London, UK: Routledge, pp 13-25
Dodd, Stephen (2007). In: Hutchinson, Rachael, (eds.) and Williams, Mark, (eds.), Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature. A Critical Approach.. Abingdon: Routledge, pp 96-108
Making Space: Kunikida Doppo and the 'Native Place' Ideal in Meiji Literature
Dodd, Stephen (2003). In: Hockx, Michel, (eds.) and Smits, Ivo, (eds.), Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literacy Theory. London: Routledge Curzon, pp 240-254
Translating the Nation: the Politics of Japanese Literary Translations
Dodd, Stephen (1999). In: Grayson, James, (eds.) and Tennant, A., (eds.), Language, Culture and Translation: Issues in the Translation of Modern Korean Literature. Sheffield: School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
Different Feelings: The Intellectual Shift between Meiji and Taisho
Dodd, Stephen (1997). In: Heinrich, Amy Vladeck, (ed.), Currents in Japanese Culture: Translations and Transformations. New York: Columbia University Press, pp 263-277
