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Tag Archives: literature
Job Opening: Visiting Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies, UCSB
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2019-2020 academic year. We seek applicants with expertise in Japanese literature from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, job opening, literature, Meiji Japan, Meiji literature, modern literature
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Book Announcement: The Haiku of Basho
The Haiku of Basho, by John White and Kemmyo Taira Sato The Buddhist Society, London: 2019 See: https://www.thebuddhistsociety.org/page/5-7-5-the-haiku-of-basho-1 Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is widely acknowledged as the greatest of all the Japanese haiku poets. In the original Japanese, the two defining features of … Continue reading
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Tagged haiku, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, Matsuo Basho, poetry
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Book Announcement: Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics
Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics Yuko Shibata National, disciplinary, and linguistic boundaries all play a role in academic study and nowhere is this more apparent than in traditional humanities scholarship surrounding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, film, Hiroshima, international relations, Japan, Japanese history, literature, media, media studies, Nagasaki, postwar, postwar Japan, United States, WWII
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Book Announcement: Unbinding the Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic
Unbinding The Pillow Book The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic Gergana Ivanova An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has … Continue reading
Resource: The Meiji at 150 Project
Today we introduce a wonderful, multifaceted and multi-year project spearheaded by the University of British Columbia that has been bringing great content to the Japanese Studies community in a number of forms: The Meiji at 150 Project. In honor of … Continue reading
Job Opening: Japanese Literature and Culture
Assistant Professor in Early and Classical Japanese Literature and Culture University of Colorado Boulder The Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early and Classical Japanese … Continue reading
Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies
Indiana University – Bloomington, East Asian Languages and Cultures Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in Indiana University’s School of Global and Interantional Studies invites applications for … Continue reading
