J. Scott Miller is a professor of Japanese and comparative literature at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, whose faculty he joined in 1994. He received his undergraduate degree in comparative literature from BYU, studied at Tsukuba University as a Japanese Government Ministry of Education Fellow, and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University. He has spent a combined total of seven years in residence in Japan, has written books and articles on Japanese literature, and has taught Japanese literature at Colgate University and BYU. His research interests include Japanese literature from the 19th century onward, oral narrative, translation theory, and early Japanese sound recordings. Among his publications are Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan (New York: Palgrave, 2001) and “Teaching The Tale of Genji with Saikaku’s Life of an Amorous Man,” in Approaches to Teaching Murasaki Shikibu’s The Tale of Genji (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1993). Reference books to which he has contributed include the Encyclopedia of Asian History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988), Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia (New York: Kodansha International, 1993), and the volumes Japanese Fiction Writers, 1868–1945 and Japanese Fiction Writers since World War II in the “Dictionary of Literary Biography” series (Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research, 1997).