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Kevin Mulholland his Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from the University of Michigan in 2016. His research interests are primarily in early modern Japanese literature, media, and society, with a focus on the role played by literature in conceptualizing the emergence of the socioeconomic category of authorship in early modern Japan by examining the reprinting and literary afterlife of the earliest works of Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848), one of nineteenth-century Japan’s most prominent writers. His research is also concerned with the mutual implications of literary history, material histories of the book, interpretation, and social history. His current project examines how collaborations between writers, illustrators, publishers, and readers participated in the construction of new modes of popular fiction in early nineteenth-century Japan. Kevin’s teaching interests include premodern Japanese literature and book history; literature, media, and culture of the Tokugawa era (1600-1868); advanced Japanese, classical Japanese, and handwritten script; interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to urban history; and the history of and critical approaches to Japanese animation in Japanese and global contexts.