Elizabeth ShultzElizabeth Schultz retired in 2001 from the University of Kansas, where she was a Chancellor's Club teaching professor. She has published extensively in the fields of African American fiction and autobiography, nineteenth-century American fiction, Ameican women's writing, and Japanese culture in addition to poetry, short stories, and essays on nature. She has been interested in Japanese culture since she taught English at Baika College in 1958. She has subsequently held a Fulbright in Japan; taught at Hiroshima University, Kobe University, Kyoto University, Osaka City University, and Doshisha University; and lectured widely throughout Japan. She has also written on traditional Japanese whaling and on Japanese iconography of the sun and has translated Shiga Naoya's short stories. Read More Read Less