Occupation professor Name Samuel Perry | Role Author Parents Rhoda Perry | |
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Books Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, Korea, and the Historical Avant-Garde | ||
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. His most recent work is a cultural history of the Korean War as experienced in Japan, a book he is writing now while on an ACLS Fellowship at CRASSH at the University of Cambridge.
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Perry is the son of a former Rhode Island College Professor of Sociology, Donald Perry, and Rhode Island State Senator, Rhoda Perry. 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. He also attended universities in Japan, South Korea and Germany, and was for several years a teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH.