Honors and Awards Related to Teaching:

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Undergraduate Teaching Grant, East Asian Studies Center, Indiana University, 2004, fall 2004. Trustees Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2002.    

 

Liberal Arts and Management Program Course Development Grant, 2001-02

 

Arts and Sciences Topics Course Grant, Indiana University, 1995-97

 

Lilly Endowment and Center for Philanthropy Fellowship for Course Development, Summer 1992

 

Indiana University Multidisciplinary Ventures Fund and Learning Resources Fund for Course Development, Spring 1988 and Spring 1991 

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Grant for Course Development, Japan Foundation, Summer 1986 

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Lilly Teaching Fellowship, Lilly Foundation, 1981-82 

 

Participant, NEH Summer Institute, “Curricular Models for Japanese Literature and Criticism,” Princeton University, June-August 1979

 

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Ph.D. Dissertations Directed:

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Eiji Sekine, EALC, "The Discourse of Ambivalence in Yoshiyuki Junnosuke," 1988

 

Roger K. Thomas, EALC, “Plebeian Travelers on the Way of Shikishima: Waka Theory and Practice During the Late Tokugawa Period,” 1990. 

 

Jon W. LaCure, EALC, “The Poetics of the Kokinshu: An Investigation into the Machine Analysis of Japanese Poetry,” 1991.

 

Fumiko Togasaki, EALC, “Santō Kyōden’s Kibyōshi: Visual-Verbal and Contemporary- Classic Intercommunication,” 1995.

 

William Farge, EALC, “The Literary Text as Historical Artifact in the Writings of Baba Bunko,” 1997.

 

Christopher Robins, EALC, “Inoue Hisashi and the Reawakening of Regional Identity and Community in Modern Japanese Narrative,” 1999.

 

Aiko Okamoto MacPhail, CMLT. “Imagining Modernity: European Japonism and Japanese Westernism,” March 2001. Received the rating of "Distinction" in Comparative Literature, Indiana University, and was named "runner-up" for the Best Dissertation Award in Comparative Literature, 2000-2001, the American Comparative Literature Association.

 

Sara Langer, EALC, “The Politics of Sentimentality in the Writings of Hanasanjin,” 2002

 

Harue Tsutsumi, EALC, "Kabuki Encounters the West: Morita Kan'ya's Shintomiza Productions, 1878-79," 2005. Received Esther Kinsley Ph.D. Dissertation Award for 2004-2005, Indiana University.

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Courses Taught (Selected):

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Introductory and Intermediate Undergraduate Levels:

Introduction to East Asian Poetry and Prose

Japanese Literature in Translation 

Introduction to Western Literature (later changed to "World Literature")

Comparative Literary Analysis 

Images of the Self, East and West 

Images Japan, a Freshman Topics Course sponsored by College of Arts and Sciences

 

Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Levels:

Literary Japanese 

Career Japanese (5th-year, intensive) 

Readings in Modern and Traditional Japanese Literature 

Japanese Literature in Translation

Japanese Western Relations (“Encountes with the Other,” “Writing About Women,”   ”Writing About Love,” and "Modernity and Women's Writing") 

Studies in Comparative Literature (“The Tale of Genji and Courtly Culture,” and “Courtly Love, East and West”)

Introduction to Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature (theory) 

Studies in Film (“Kurosawa: Literature, Theatre, Music, and History through Film”)

Seminar on the Novel 

Seminar on Sexuality and the Arts (“Forms of Desire in the Arts,” "Gender, Sexuality, and Visuality in the Arts," and "Gender and Border-Crossing in the Arts")

Seminar on Traditional Japanese Literature (“Monogatari as Narrative Style,” “Edo Literature and Culture,” “Gesaku,” “The Formation of ‘Edo’,” and “Writing About Love, East and West”) 

Seminar on Edo Poetics 

Seminar on Modern Japanese Literature ("Modern Japanese Writings and Problems of Modernity")

History of Japanese Theatre and Drama

Film Adaptations of Literature ("Cinema as Critique of Modern Society")

 

 

Courses Designed by the Support of Grants/Fellowships: 

"Management and Japanese Popular Culture," a senior seminar in the Liberal Arts and Management Program, LAMP grant, 2001

“Images: Japan,” an Arts and Sciences topics course for freshmen and sophomores, Arts and Sciences Course Development Grant, 1995 

“Writing About Love,” a graduate seminar in Japanese and Comparative Literature taught in team with Takahashi Toru, Japan Foundation Visiting Professor Grant, fall 1995

“Cinema as Critique of Modern Society in Japanese Film Adaptations of Literature,” upper- level undergraduate course, Lilly Endowment/Indiana University Center for Philanthropy, fall 1993

“Kurosawa: Literature, Theatre, Music, and History through Film,” a graduate course taught in team with George Elison (history) and David Newmeyer (music), Multidisciplinary Ventures Fund, Indiana University, Spring 1988 

“Career Japanese,” an intensive 5th-year course, Japan Foundation Grant, Summer 1986 

“Sexuality in Literature East and West,” and “Edo Literature and Culture,” both graduate seminars, NEH Summer Institute, 1979 

“The Tale of Genji and Courtly Culture in Japan,” an upper-level undergraduate and graduate course, Lilly Teaching Fellowship, 1981-82 

“The Novel,” University of Washington Comparative Literature Program, Competition for Best Graduate Seminar Designed by a Student, 1977 

 

 

Lectures Related to Teaching:

 

"The Heian Period--History and Culture" and "The Edo Period--History and Culture," two lectures for the workshop for high school teachers, "Teaching East Asian Literature in High School," Bloomington, IN, July 2000. 

 

“American Culture Encounters Japan: College Education and Contemporary Culture,” a public lecture, the University of Saitama, December 1998

Panel Chair, "Female Gaze/Male Body: Rethinking Female Desire in Oba Minako"s Writings," Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, April 1996

 

“Images: Japan,” a teaching demonstration of a model course, Gettysburg College, April 1995

Discussant fir the panel, "New Directions in the Study of Urban Society in Edo," Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C., April 1995.

Organizer of Panel, "Play of Language in Contemporary Japanese Literature," Association for Asian Studies, Washington D.C.. April 1995.

 

Comments on Technical Problems in Teaching Japanese Film, “The Teaching of Japanese Theater and Film,” a round table discussion, in Eiji Sekine, ed., Japanese Theatricality and Performance: Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies (West Lafayette, IN, 1994).  West Lafayette, IN: Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 1995, pp. 216-217.

 

Round Table Panelist, “The Teaching of Japanese Theater and Film,” Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies, West Lafayette, IN, October 1994 (Jones’ comments on “Technical Problems in Teaching Japanese Film” in the round table was published in Eiji Sekine, ed., Japanese Theatricality and Performance: Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies (West Lafayette, IN, 1994).  West Lafayette, IN: Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 1995, pp. 216-217.

 

Panelist, “Japan Studies in the 1990s,” a teleconference of Japan specialists in the U.S. with those in Japan, Indianapolis and Tokyo, January 1994 

 

Discussant in the international conference, "Love: Its Expression in Japanese Art and Literature," Tokyo, November-December 1992.

 

Discussant of the panel, "Classicism Revisited: The Edo Experience," Midwest Research-Pedagogy Seminar on Japanese Literature, West Lafayette, IN, October 1992

 

Chairperso, first study meeting of the collaborative project, "Eroticism and Sexuality in Late Edo Culture," the Art Institute of Chicago, August 1992

 

“Multidisciplinary Approaches to Japanese Culture Through Film,” an introduction to the workshop above, International Comparative Literature Association, Tokyo, August 1991

Chair of workshop, “Kurosawa Akira's Vision: An Experiment in Multidisciplinary Discussion,” International Comparative Literature Association, Tokyo, August 1991. (The workshop was based entirely on guest lectures and term papers in Jones’ course on Kurosawa.) 

 

"Tourism as Sign: Ikku's Along the Tōkaidō on Foot" in"Something Other than Travel" with Lewis Dibbie, Comparative Literature, Faculty-Student Colloquium, October 1988

 

「東京で迷子になりたいんだって？まかしてちょうだい」(How to Get Lost in Tokyo: A Reliable Guide), East Asian Summer Language Institute Japanese School, Indiana University, Bloomington, August 1988

 

Commentator, "Play: A Thousand Years of Japanese Pastimes," The Center for Japanese Studies and East Asian National Resource Center, University of California, Berkeley, May 6-7, 1988

 

Moderator for the panel, “Introducing an East Asian Language Curriculum,” Research Expo '88, Indiana University, April 1988 

 

Panel Chair, "Contemporary Popular Arts in Asia," Modern Language Association of America, San Francisco, December 1987

 

“Including Japan in Undergraduate Teaching,” a faculty seminar for the members of the English Department, Spelman College, Atlanta, November 1987 

 

Panel Chair, "Situating Sexuality in Tokugawa Culture," Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs Meeting, Northfield, MN, September 1987

 

“Women in Japanese Society in the 80s,” a lecture for the annual seminar of the Midwest Program for Teaching About Japan,” Bloomington, June 1986, and July 1987

 

“Teaching about Contemporary Japan,” a guest lecturer for Indiana State Teachers' Association Annual Conference, Indianapolis, October 1984 

 

Panelist, “Teaching World Literature,” a workshop, International Comparative Literature Association Congress, New York, August 1982 

 

Participant, East Asian Studies Center Faculty Development Seminar, McCormick's Creek, October 1981 

 

Fellow, Lilly Teaching Fellowship, August 1981--May 1982 (including participation in

Teaching Workshop at McCormick's Creek, August 1981; National Conference #1 in Bloomington, December 1981; Conference on Learning Resources and Teaching in Bloomington, February 1982; and National Conference #2 in Arlington, Virginia, April 1982) 

Panelist, "Asian American Experiences: Implications for Teachers," two seminars for Multicultural Education Project, School of Education, Indiana University, Bloomington, December 3, 1980, and March 5, 1981

 

Member, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Curricular Models for Japanese Literature and Criticism,” Princeton University, June 24-August 18 1979