Noriko Mizuta Lippit received her Ph.D. from Yale University. She has taught English, American, Japanese, and Comparative literature at Dokkyo University, Josai University, and Tokyo Women's University in Japan, and at Marymount College, Scripps College, and the University of Southern California in the United States. She is currently Director of the Center for Inter-Cultural Studies and Education at Josai University. Kyoko Iriye Selden is a graduate of Tokyo University and of Yale University, where she received a Ph.D. in English. She is the co-editor and translator of The Atomic Bomb, Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki (M.E. Sharpe, 1989), and translator, with Noriko Mizuta Lippit, of The Short Stories of Tomioka Taeko (forthcoming). She has taught English, Japanese, and comparative literature at Tsuda College (Tokyo) and Washington University (St. Louis). Currently she teaches Japanese language literature at Cornell University.