[PMJS} American Scholars of Japan in WWII

[Nicholas Teele]

To the list please add Roy E. Teele (1915-1985).  Commissioned in the Navy, he studied at the University of Colorado in Boulder, in the Chinese class.  After serving in China he returned there as a missionary (University of Nanking).  Forced out in 1949, he moved to Japan (Kwansei Gakuin) in 1950 , and added classical Japanese literature to his many loves. After moving back to the US he found a home teaching Japanese and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas  at Austin.  His activities in Japanese studies included not only work in the Man'yoshu and Noh but also editing the Japan section of the Twayne World Authors Series and the journal Literature East & West, which often had a Japanese focus.

See:  http://www.utexas.edu/faculty/council/2000-2001/memorials/SCANNED/teele.pdf.

Nicholas Teele