Samuel E. Perry

Samuel Perry
Samuel Perry in 2008
Born	(1969-10-30) October 30, 1969 New York, USA
Occupation	professor

Samuel Perry (born October 30, 1969) is Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University. A specialist on Japanese and Korean literature, he is the author of Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-garde. He is also the translator of Kang Kyŏng-ae's From Wŏnso Pond as well as a forthcoming collection of stories by Ineko Sata (佐多稲子), having received a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.^[1] His recent work, funded by a Japan Foundation grant, is a cultural history of the Korean War as experienced in Japan.^[2]

Life

Perry is the son of a former Rhode Island College Professor of Sociology, Donald Perry, and Rhode Island State Senator, Rhoda Perry.^[3] He graduated with an AB from Brown University in 1991 and a PhD from the University of Chicago in 2007. He spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.^[4] He also attended universities in Japan, South Korea and Germany, and was for several years a teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH.

Translations

• Sata Ineko, Crimson and Selected Stories. Translated and introduced by Samuel Perry. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai`i Press, 2016).
• Kang Kyŏng-ae, From Wŏnso Pond 인간문제. Translated and introduced by Samuel Perry. (New York, NY: The Feminist Press, 2009). ISBN 978-1-55861-601-1
• Song Yŏng, "The Blast Furnace". In Theodore Hughes, Sang-Kyung Lee, Jae-Yong Kim & Jin-kyung Lee, eds., Rat Fire: Korean Stories from the Japanese Empire (Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Series, 2014). ISBN 978-1933947877
• Sata Ineko, "White and Purple" 白と紫 (1950) Translator's Introduction to "White and Purple"

External links

• Samuel Perry Brown University Professor, East Asian Studies
• NEA Writers Corner: Samuel Perry
• The Feminist Press: Samuel Perry

References