Yoshitaka HIBI is a professor of modern Japanese literature, print culture, and digital humanities at the Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University. He serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal Modern Japanese Literary Studies. He is the author of Jikohyōshō no Bungakushi: Jibun wo Kaku Shōsetsu no Tōjō, Japanīzu Amerika: Imin-Bungaku, Shuppan-Bunka, Shūyōjo, and the forthcoming book Teikoku no Shoten. His research includes numerous articles on the I-novel, privacy and literary writing, as well as computational approaches to modern Japanese literary texts.