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Inger Sigrun Thomsen Brodey
Inger Sigrun Brodey (email: brodey@email.unc.edu) is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and adjunct Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she also directs Undergraduate Studies in Comparative Literature. She has written extensively on both Austen and Sōseki, and is interested in the history of the novel in both Europe and Japan.