Roy Starrs
}} Roy Starrs (born 1946) is a British-Canadian scholar of Japanese literature and culture who teaches at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He has written critical studies of the major Japanese writers Yasunari Kawabata, Naoya Shiga, Osamu Dazai, and Yukio Mishima, and edited books on Asian nationalism (especially ethnic nationalism, religious nationalism, and cultural nationalism), globalization, pan-Asianism, Japanese modernism, and cultural responses to disaster in Japan. He has also published essays on Japan-related topics such as the Kojiki, Lafcadio Hearn, and Japanese calligraphy.Roy Starrs is also the Japan editor of the online ''The Literary Encyclopedia''.
Starrs was born in Birmingham, England on November 18, 1946 and became a Canadian citizen as an adult. He received his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1986 and previously taught at U.B.C., Union College (New York), and Aarhus University (Denmark). Provided by Wikipedia
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The Paradoxes of Japan's Cultural Identity Modernity and Tradition in Japanese Literature, Art, Politics and Religion by Starrs, Roy
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The paradoxes of Japan's cultural identity : modernity and tradition in Japanese literature, art, politics and religion / by Starrs, Roy, 1946-
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Modernism and Japanese culture / by Starrs, Roy, 1946-
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Japanese Cultural Nationalism : At Home and in the Asia-Pacific /
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When the tsunami came to shore : culture and disaster in Japan /
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Rethinking Japanese modernism /
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When the tsunami came to shore : culture and disaster in Japan /
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Japan's competing modernities : issues in culture and democracy, 1900-1930 /
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