NAOKI SAKAI

Naoki Sakai is a professor in Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at Cornell University. He has published in the fields of comparative literature, comparative intellectual history, translation studies, the studies of racism and nationalism, and comparative colonialism. His publications include: Translation and Subjectivity (in English, Japanese & Korean); Voices of the Past (in English & Japanese; Korean forthcoming); Japan/Image/the United States: The Community of Sympathy and Imperial Nationalisms (in Japanese and Korean); Hope and the Constitution ( in Japanese; Korean forthcoming). He has been working for Traces, a multi-lingual series of cultural theory and translation, which is published in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, English and German (German version forthcoming next year). He served as its founding senior editor (1996 – 2004).