Wendy Jones Nakanishi, an American by birth, has been resident in Japan since the spring of 1984, since earning her doctorate in literature at Edinburgh University. She has been employed full-time since her arrival, first for five years at Tokushima Bunri University and now at Shikoku Gakuin University. She has published extensively on 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st-century literature and also, in recent years, writes on her personal experiences as a foreign woman, an academic, the wife of a Japanese farmer and the mother of three sons, inhabiting a rural area of Japan.
