Faculty
Michael Brownstein
Associate Professor
BA in English, California State University-Northridge, 1972; BA in Japanese, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1973; MA, PhD, Columbia University, 1981.
Michael Brownstein has been teaching courses on Japanese language and culture at Notre Dame since 1982. His dissertation and subsequent publications centered on the Meiji Period writer Kitamura Tokoku (1868-1894) and Meiji Period literary thought, especially the impact of Western literary criticism on Japanese writers in the late 19th century. His current research interests, however, concern the Tokugawa Period dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725). Brownstein is working on a book-length critical study of Chikamatsu's "contemporary life" plays as well as a companion volume of translations of three Chikamatsu plays. In addition, he has attended performance workshops on the Noh drama in Kyoto, Japan.
