Professional Biography

Bruce Suttmeier joined the Lewis & Clark faculty as Assistant Professor of Japanese in 2001. He received his doctorate in Asian Languages from Stanford University with a dissertation examining war memory and trauma in the fiction of 1960s Japan. He has taught courses in Japanese language, literature, and civilization, including "Secrets and Lies in Japanese Fiction and Film" and "The Past in the Present." His publications include an article forthcoming in positions: east asia cultures critique titled "Seeing Past Destruction: Trauma and History in Kaiko Takeshi." He is currently working on a book manuscript exploring Japanese literature's response to the emerging predominance of visuality as a general technology of communication.