Matthew Mewhinney is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at Florida State University. He teaches Japanese language as well as courses on Japanese literature, culture, and film. His research interests include lyric poetry and theory, narrative, subjectivity, and translation. His first book, Form and Feeling in Japanese Literati Culture (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), examines how four writers transformed the Japanese literati (bunjin) tradition by creating new poetic forms of irony and lyricism. His current project explores the aesthetic experience of reading.