Miri Nakamura, assistant professor of Japanese language and literature, teaches Japanese horror films and fiction. Posted 10/02/07 Miri Nakamura has joined the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures as an assistant professor of Japanese language and literature. Her primary research interests are modern Japanese fantastic fiction and gender theory. She is also interested in the dialogue between science and literature in the prewar era. Her dissertation, titled Monstrous Bodies: Gender and Reproductive Science in Modern Japanese Literature, examined how the classical image of monstrous women came to be modified and developed in the modern period. By situating fantastic writings…