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Kyoko Iriye Selden, a scholar and teacher at Cornell University. Born on Oct. 2, 1936, in Tokyo, Iriye graduated in 1959 with top honors from the English department of the University of Tokyo. She then went to Yale University on a Fulbright scholarship. Among her teachers there was Cleanth Brooks, the proponent of New Criticism. It was at Yale where she met Mark Selden, who later in life was to become a Marxist historian and sociologist, as well as her husband.
ied in Ithaca, New York, on January 20th, 2012 at the age of 76 after contracting pneumonia.