Jb05-rsh is the User Name of Robert Hewitt. He is a gradute student of Japanese Classical Literature at Columbia University. His primary interests— intellectually— include Edo period social organization and literary production, Women and sexuality in Japanese history and literature, and representations of criminals and the law in japanese popular culture from the pre-modern period.
Robert was born in San Diego, CA in 1981. He attended UCBerkeley from 1999-2003, where he received a BA in Comparative literature. He then lived in Taneichi, Japan, working as an english teacher from 2003-2005. He is currently living in New York city, which has so much to do he can never manage to get all his homework done.