Modern Japanese Literature Scholar and Cultural Historian
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Waseda UniversityPau Pitarch Fernández serves as an Associate Professor at Waseda University's School of Culture, Media and Society, where he specializes in modern Japanese literature and media studies. After earning his PhD from Columbia University, his research has centered on the complex relationship between literature, psychology, and publishing culture in early 20th-century Japan. His current scholarly work examines how the concept of artistic creativity as mental abnormality became fundamental to the formation of the literary field in 1910s and 1920s Japan, particularly focusing on writers like Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Satō Haruo, and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke