Timothy Hoye is a Professor of Government at Texas Woman's University with specializations in political theory, American politics, and comparative politics with an emphasis on Japan. Among the courses he teaches are American and Texas government, modern and American political thought, politics and literature (a Maymester course), an introduction to political science, and Japanese culture and politics. His research focuses on the problems and prospects of modern democratic theory and on the literary artist as political analyst. Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have supported research seminars on early modern democratic theory at Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and Harvard Universities. In 1992/93, he taught in the American Studies Program at Hiroshima University in Japan as a Fulbright exchange scholar. He recently authored a textbook on modern Japan entitled Japanese Politics: Fixed and Floating Worlds (1999).
Most recently, he has presented papers at national and regional conventions in Washington D.C., Fort Worth, New Orleans, and Boston on political themes in selected works by Japanese novelists Dazai Osamu, Murakami Haruki, and Natsume Soseki. He also organized and chaired panels in 2002 for the American Political Science Association annual convention in Boston and the Southwest Political Science Association annual convention in New Orleans. He is currently preparing a proposal for the 2003 APSA Annual convention in Philadelphia on selected aspects of constitutional development in modern Japan.
Professor Hoye was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He received BA and MA degrees in political science from East Texas State University (now Texas A & M-Commerce) and the Ph.D. in political science from Duke University. His wife, Masako, is from Fukuoka, Japan, and teaches Japanese language courses at the University of North Texas. They have two children, Nathan (13) and Christopher (8).
