Education
Brown University.
Brown University.
A specialist on Japanese and Korean literature, he is the author of Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan: Childhood, of Korea, and the Historical Avant-garde. He is also the translator of Kang Kyŏng-ae"s From Wŏnso Pond as well as a forthcoming collection of stories by Ineko Sata (佐多稲子), having received a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. His recent work, funded by a Japan Foundation grant, is a cultural history of the Korean War as experienced in Japan.
Perry is the son of a former Rhode Island College Professor of Sociology, Donald Perry, and Rhode Island State Senator, Rhoda Perry.
He graduated with an Bachelor of Arts from Brown University in 1991 and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago in 2007. He spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.
He also attended universities in Japan, South of Korea and Germany, and was for several years a teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire.