Massimiliano TomasiMassimiliano Tomasi (PhD Nagoya University). Professor of Japanese and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University. His publications include Rhetoric in Modern Japan: Western Influences on the Development of Written ad Orator_x0002_ical Style (University of Hawai’i Press, 2004), The Literary Theory of Shimamura Hōgetsu and the Development of Feminist Discourse in Modern Japan (Mellen, 2008); The Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature: Metaphors of Christianity (Routledge, 2018); and the edited volume Religion and Spirituality in Japanese Literature (Association for Japa_x0002_nese Literary Studies, 2016). Prof. Tomasi is currently working on a book manuscript that explores the intersections between Christianity and Japanese literature from the 1930s to the immediate postwar period. Read More Read Less