Faculty Profile for Dr. Seth David Jacobowitz

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Dr. Seth David Jacobowitz
Assistant Professor — Dept of World Languages & Literatures
CENT 214
phone: (512) 245-2360
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Biography Section

Biography and Education

 Seth Jacobowitz is the author of Writing Technology in Meiji Japan: A Media History of Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture (Harvard Asia Center, 2016), which won the 2017 International Convention of Asia Scholars Book Prize in the Humanities. He is also the translator of the Edogawa Rampo Reader (Kurodahan Press, 2008) and Fernando Morais' Dirty Hearts: The History of Shindo Renmei (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021).

Teaching Interests

 Japanese Literature and Visual Culture
Japanese Language
Brazilian Literature and Visual Culture
Theory and Practice of Translation
Media Theory and Literary Theory

Research Interests

 Modern Japanese Literature and Visual Culture
Modern Brazilian Literature and Visual Culture
Word and Image Relations
Genre Studies in Literature and Film
Transnational Japanese Immigration and Empire
Literary Theory and Media History
Comparative Studies of Modernism and Modernity

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Jacobowitz, S. D. (Trans.). (n.d.). Translation of Ishikawa Tatsuzō’s ‘A Sketch of Paradise.
  • Jacobowitz, S. D. (Ed.). (n.d.). Modern Japanese Literary Studies. University of Michigan Press.
  • Jacobowitz, S. D. (Ed.). (n.d.). The Hirabayashi Hatsunosuke Reader: Mass Culture and Intermediality in Imperial Japan. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic.
  • Jacobowitz, S. D. (n.d.). Book Review. Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World. University of California Press. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/transmodernity
  • Jacobowitz, S. D. (2024). Patologias da modernidade: o grotesco em Poe e Rampo. In Transcrições entre Japão e Occidente (pp. 101–130). São Paulo, Brazil: AnnaBlume.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Scholar Research Support Grant, Hoover Institution Library & Archives. August 1, 2023 - August 10, 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Research Startup Package, Research Startup Package, Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Texas State University. July 1, 2023 - August 1, 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: NEH International Engagement Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities. January 1, 2021 - December 31, 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Hilles Subvention Grant, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University. November 1, 2021 - November 30, 2021
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Book Prize in the Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars. July 20, 2017 - July 25, 2017

Selected Grants

  • Jacobowitz, Seth David. Japanese Brazil: Immigrant Literature and Overseas Expansion, Texas State University, $2000. (Funded: May 1, 2024 - Present). Grant.
  • Jacobowitz, Seth David (Co-Principal). Transnational Japanese Diaspora: Preserving the Brazilian Nikkei Literary and Cultural Heritage, National Endowment for the Humanities, Federal, $29138. (Funded: January 21, 2021 - December 31, 2022). Grant.
  • Jacobowitz, Seth David (Principal). Japanese Brazil: Immigrant Literature and Transnational Modernity, Fulbright, Federal, $22400. (Funded: June 1, 2019 - July 31, 2022). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Editorial Review Board Member
Editorial Advisory Board/Revista Estudos Japoneses/University of São Paulo
July 2023-Present
University Mentor
Boren Award to Japan
August 2023-2025
University Mentor
Bobcat IDEA Center
March 2024-December 2024
Undergraduate Advisor
JET Program applications
August 2024-November 2024
Reviewer / Referee
Journal of Asian Studies
October 1, 2024-November 30, 2024