Rate My Professor Roy Starrs

Starrs has authored and edited numerous works on Japanese culture and literature. Key publications include his latest monograph, The Paradoxes of Japan's Cultural Identity: Modernity and Tradition in Japanese Literature, Art, Politics and Religion (Amsterdam University Press, 2023); When the Tsunami Came to Shore: Culture and Disaster in Japan (Brill, 2014), addressing cultural responses to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami; Rethinking Japanese Modernism (Brill, 2012); Modernism and Japanese Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); Politics and Religion in Modern Japan: Red Sun, White Lotus (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, edited); Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima (University of Hawaii Press, 1994); and Japanese Cultural Nationalism: At Home and in the Asia Pacific (Global Oriental, 2004, edited). Recent articles feature 'In the shadow of a murder: Religious freedom versus the social good in Japan' (Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 2025) and a chapter on D. T. Suzuki's theory of inspiration in Beyond Zen: D. T. Suzuki and the modern transformation of Buddhism (University of Hawai'i Press, 2022). In 2018, he received the Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature, Culture and Art in Australia and New Zealand.