Christopher L. Hill

Short Biography

Christopher Hill’s work focuses on the transnational histories of literature and social thought in the 19th century. His book National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States (Duke 2008) is an interdisciplinary study of the writing of history in the late 19th century. He is currently working on the transnational movements of the naturalist novel at the turn of the century and their relationship to other genres of social thought. He has recently published ‘Exhausted by their Battles with the World: Neurasthenia and Civilization Critique in Early Twentieth-Century Japan’ in Perversion and Modern Japan: Experiments in Psychoanalysis, ed. Nina Cornyetz and Keith Vincent (Routledge 2009). He presently teaches Japanese literature at Yale University and holds a BA in English from Stanford and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Columbia.