Chair and Professor
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Pittsburgh
1501 CL
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
TEL: (412) 624-5568
FAX: (412) 624-4419
E-MAIL: rimer@vms.cis.pitt.edu
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INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English
SPECIALIZATIONS:
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Chair, Hebrew and East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Maryland, 1986-91; Chief, Asian Division, Library of Congress, 1983-86; Assistant Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Chair, Department of Chinese and Japanese, Associate Professor, Professor, Japanese Language and Literature, Washington University, 1971-83.
IN JAPAN: 1982-present - research; repeated brief trips.
MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:
Traditions in Modern Japanese Fiction: An Introduction (1978); On the Art of the Noh Drama, The Major Treatises of Zeami (with Masakazu) (Princeton University Press, 1984); Pilgrimages, Aspects of Japanese Literature and Culture (University of Hawaii Press, 1988); A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature (Kodansha International, 1988).