Miryam Sas

Miryam Sas is Bernie H. Williams Chair in Comparative Literature and Professor and department chair in Film & Media at the University of California, Berkeley. She is celebrating the publication of her newest book, “Milk in an Eggshell: A WWII Story of Hiding in Plain Sight” (Amsterdam Publishers, 2026).

She is the author of three scholarly books, "Feeling Media: The Afterlife of Art in Japan," "Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan: Moments of Encounter, Engagement, and Imagined Return," and "Fault Lines: Cultural Memory and Japanese Surrealism." She has written numerous articles in English, French, and Japanese on subjects such as transnational modernism, Japanese futurism, cross-cultural performance, and butô dance.

Her memoirs and stories have been published in the literary journals Change Seven, New World Writing Quarterly, Sanskrit, North Atlantic Review, and others, and in Japanese in Subaru magazine and in a monthly series in Asunaro journal. Other writings, interviews and literary translations have been featured in Cabinet, Mondo 2000, Covert Culture Sourcebook, Luciole, [Five] Factorial, Newsweek Japan, and in forthcoming books from New Directions and Brown University Press. Before moving to Berkeley, she was assistant professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Harvard University.