Christopher L. Hill writes on transnational literary and intellectual history. He is the author of the books National History and the World of Nations (Duke, 2008) and Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form (Northwestern, 2020), “Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century,” in Global Intellectual History (Columbia, 2013), “Crossed Geographies: Endô and Fanon in Lyon” in Representations (Fall 2014), “Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent” in Past & Present (Nov. 2024), “Revolution or Redress: The History of Fanon in Japan” in Review of African Political Economy (Dec. 2025), and other articles and chapters. Hill publishes regularly on Japanese literature, comparative literature, and intellectual history.

Hill is currently working on Facing South: Japanese Writers in the Bandung Moment, a book on Japanese writers’ responses to the decolonization of Africa and Asia. The project places postwar Japanese literature in the context of anticolonial culture from the 1950s to the 1970s. Keenly aware of their colonialist history and subordinate position in the Cold War, Japanese writers saw literary relations with the Global South as a way toward a Japan independent of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Western publishing.

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