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Joshua Rogers teaches Japanese literature and cinema. Their research focuses on science and religion in the early 20th century, especially the pushback against secularity and materialism within literary and philosophical discourse. Joshua traces the influence of theories of knowledge, intuition, and sublime experience that explicitly rejected materialism and empiricism. These theories informed both the aesthetic and political positions of many of Japan’s most influential writers from the early 1900s through WWII.

Joshua has an upcoming article titled, ""Politics of the Spirit: Secularity and the Power of Art in 1910s Japan,"" and is working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Secularity and Enchantment in Modern Japanese Literature.