Interviews
What advice or recommendation do you have for students interested in a career in Asian Studies?
I always emphasize the importance of language learning for their future teaching and research. My slogan for my students has always been “Talk big.” Once you make a big claim against existing studies, say, responsibility makes you conduct fierce research and develop the sort of rhetoric that convinces others. I would also advise them to keep their professional horizons wide and flexible when pursuing their studies on the university level, considering their marketability within and without academia.
Association for Asian Studies Book Launch, a Zoom presentation by 10 contributors to Women in Japanese Studies: Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation, 12/5/2023.
Faculty Showcase: Sumie Jones, Website of East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University. 2021.
"Emeriti News" on the publication of A Kamigata Anthology, Encompass (Newsletter, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Indiana University, Vol 30, Summer 2020, p. 17
Webpage of East Asian Studies Center, Ohio State University "IJS Lecture: Sumie Jones, 'Gender, Class, and Subversion in Male Homoerotic Narratives of the Early Edo Period'" 2017.
"IU faculty members awarded $358,000 in NEH grants," The Herald-Times, Bloomington, IN, August 20, 2016
"Professor Emerita Sumie Jones: Translating Japan and Popular Culture, A Dialogue Between Access and Fidelity," by Zachary Scalzo, 2016 Annual Newsletter, Institute of Advanced Study, Indiana University. page 8.
IU Institute for Advanced Study Facebook Page, "Meet IAS' Sumie Jones!" 2016.
"An Interview with Sumie Jones," by Julia Whyde, Encompass (Newsletter, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Vol 18, Summer 2008, 6-7 and 10
Interview on divorce in Japan in "Four Corners," BBC Radio 4, Glasgow, UK, November 9, 2004
Interview on women in Asia: Japan in "Four Corners," BBC Radio 4, Glasgow, UK, June 30, 2003
「スミエ・Ａ・ジョーンズ客員教授インタビュー」『MANDALA通信』25号, 国際日本文学研究所,1998年6月30日
"Japan Studies in the 1990s," Teleconference between Indiana and Tokyo held by Earlham Collage (Aired in a NHK program), January 20, 1994.
「江戸の庶民文化の研究家：「俗」の中に「雅」の世界」『読売新聞（夕刊）』1990年1月6日
「交流の広がり望む」『天理新聞』1989年8月6日
「海外レーダー：比較文学の立場から」『公明新聞』1986年11月24日（Review of Exploration: Essays in Comparative Literature, University Press of America）
"IU Wins Eight Awards from Education Group," Herald Telephone, Bloomington, IN, July 19, 1983