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Jonathan E. Abel

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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This should be amazing.
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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Looking forward to this: ONLINE ROUNDTABLE Modern Japanese Literary Studies Hosted by Il Giappone. Studi e Ricerche REGISTRATION forms.cloud.microsoft/e/5cSq6CFDqs
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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Look what came in the mail today!!! www.versobooks.com/products/347.... Thanks @versobooks.bsky.social!!! Officially out next month. Order yours today.
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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Just got around to posting a visualization of similarities and differences between Poe and Doyle I did for a lecture in 2025. My favorite is the chart on character co-occurrence that resembles Lacan’s analysis of desire in “The Purloined Letter”. jabeljabel.github.io/ratiocinatio...
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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Look what came in the mail!
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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Join us for a discussion of the new book.
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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Modern Japanese Literary Studies is 30% off!!! Click on the "flyer" link from this page: press.umich.edu/Books/M/Mode....
Introduction: Stating the Field, Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E. Abel 
Part I: Negotiating Disciplinary Formation  
1.    Between the Margins and the Mainstream: Modern Japanese Women Writers and Evolving Trends in North American Japanese Literature Scholarship, Rebecca Copeland  
2.    The Inclusion of Okinawa in Japanese Literary Studies, Davinder Bhowmik 
3.    Do Black Lives Still Matter to Japanese Literary Studies? William H. Bridges IV 
4.    Ecocritical Precedent, Present, and Possibility in Japanese Literary Studies, Jonathan L. Pitt 
5.     Comixing Frameworks: Rethinking the Euro-American Critical Paradigm from the Perspective of Manga Studies, Adam Kern 
6.    Approaches to Researching and Teaching Manga as Literature, Deborah Shamoon 
Part II. The Question of Language 
7.    World Literature and Japanese-Language Literature, Hideto Tsuboi  
8.    The History and Present of Japanophone Literature: Migration, Border Crossing, and Materiality, Hibi Yoshitaka
9.    Modern Japanese Literature and Sinitic Literary Traditions, Matthew Fraleigh  
10.    Literature and the Cultural Politics of Immigration: Between Lee Hoesung and  Yang Yi in the “Era of the Immigrant,” YoungRan Kō (trans. Seth Jacobowitz) 
11.    Translation and the Crisis of Relevancy in Japanese Studies, Jeffrey Angles  
Part III: Institutional Responses to the Field 
12.    The Many What-ifs of Literary Urbanism: A European Perspective, Gala Maria Follaco 
13.    The Problem of Scale in Japanese Literary Studies, John Whittier Treat 
14.     Signposts for the Non-Specialist: Thoughts on a Renewed View of the State of Modern Japanese Literary Studies, Christopher Lupke
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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Oh no… I killed Duo!
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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
So AI has gone all Bartleby on me.
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Jonathan E. Abel @jonabel.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Are we there yet? ….Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2,771,964!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,771,964, Jonathan E. Abel ‪@jonabel.bsky.social‬, joined on Dec 27, 2023"
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