Scott Mehl

Scott Mehl is an associate professor of Japanese at Colgate University. Trained as a comparatist with a specialization in modern Japanese literature, he works on the intersections between Japanese literature and literature in other languages, often with a focus on the history of literary criticism. His published essays and translations have appeared in Japanese Studies, Comparative Literature Studies, Monumenta Nipponica, Japan Review, Japanese Language and Literature, U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, Japan Forum, and other venues. He is the author of The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form (Cornell University Press, 2021).