Robert Del Greco

Assistant Professor of Japanese

354 O'Dowd Hall
248-370-2066
[email protected]

DEGREE: Ph.D. in Japanese Studies, 2018, The Ohio State University

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Modern Japanese and Korean Literature, Postcolonial Theory, Media Studies, Asian Cinema, Cross-cultural literary production.

Dr. Robert J. Del Greco is an Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies. His research interests include expatriate Korean literature in Japan, Japanese colonialism, popular media in contemporary Japan, and Japanese detective fiction. Prof. Del Greco was awarded his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 2018. His dissertation discusses the postwar coterie magazine Democratic Korea and the intersection of literary production and political activism in the postwar Zainichi Korean community. He received an M.A. in 2009 and his B.A. in 2006 from the University of Kansas.

Before coming to Oakland University in fall 2019, Prof. Del Greco taught at the University of Maryland (College Park) and studied in Japan at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies (IUC) in Yokohama and at Obirin University (near Tokyo).

Prof. Del Greco currently serves as the Japanese minor advisor, Japan club faculty liaison, and Japanese class placement test coordinator. If you have any questions about Oakland’s Japanese minor, or to take a placement test (for those who have already taken some Japanese) email [email protected].

Prof. Del Greco’s recent publications include:

“Considering Magic and Technology in the Works of Edogawa Ranpo and Murakami Haruki” in Josephy, Rebecca ed., Magic, Magicians and Detective Fiction: Essays on Intersecting Modes of Mystery (McFarland 2025)

Book Review of the NihonGO NOW! textbook series for Japanese Language and Literature (JLL) Vol. 57 No. 1 (2023) pp 57-62.

“The Political Perspectives and Historical Significance of the Zainichi Coterie Magazine Democratic Korea.” electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies (ejcjs) Volume 21, Issue 3. (2021)

“The Suppression of Korean Political Organizations and Publications in Postwar Japan.” Proceedings for the 50^th anniversary celebration of The Ohio State University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. (2020)

“A Failure of De-colonization: Reading the Postcolonial Subject as Double Agent in Karasu no shi.” in the Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies (PAJLS) Vol. 14, Autumn 2013. pp. 138-153.