Michael Bourdaghs is the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultures. A scholar of modern Japanese literature and culture, he is the author, most recently, of A Fictional Commons: Natsume Sōseki and the Properties of Modern Literature (2020). His previous books include Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-Pop (2012, Japanese translation 2012) and The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese Nationalism (2003). He is also an active translator, including Karatani Kōjin's The Structure of World History: From Modes of Exchange to Modes of Production (2014). He received his Ph.D. in East Asian Literature from Cornell University and is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including a 2019 Guggenheim Fellowship. Bourdaghs is currently writing a book on the Cold War cultures of Japan.