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J. Scott Miller — Professor
Japanese

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Contact Information

Office: 3064 JFSB

Phone: 422-5225

Email: scott_miller@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses Japanese 322, 351, 352
Japanese 444
Asian 342
CompLit 201H, 202H, 342
Univ 101
Honors 303R

Semester Schedule: Winter 2011

Asian 342/CMLit 342/Honors 303R

Office hours: Tuesdays 2-3pm 3064C JFSB

Biography:

J. Scott Miller, Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, received his B.A. from BYU in comparative literature and later earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian studies from Princeton University. He was an associate professor of Japanese at Colgate University prior to joining the faculty at BYU in 1994. Currently chair of the department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages, he has also served as Asian Studies Coordinator in the David M. Kennedy Center, associate dean of Undergraduate Education and Honors Program Director, and as co-director of BYU's International Cinema program.

Degrees: BA, BYU
MA, Princeton University
PhD, Princeton University, 1988.

Interests:


Research interests include nineteenth-century and modern Japanese literature; oral narrative and translation theory; early Japanese sound recordings


Links

"Out of the Blue: Serendipity, Translation, and Literature"