FULL-TIME FACULTY

PAUL J. ANDERER


Paul Anderer is the deBary/Class of ’41 Professor of Asian Humanities at Columbia. He holds degrees from Michigan (BA ’71), Chicago (MA ’72), and Yale (Ph.D. ’79). He joined the Columbia faculty in 1980. From 1989 until 1997, he was the chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. [more]


WIEBKE DENECKE

 

Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College/Columbia University. She received her M. A. (1998) from George August University (Göttingen, Germany) and her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2004. Her interests include thought and literature (particularly poetry) of pre-modern China and Japan. [more]


DAVID LURIE

 

Assistant Professor of Japanese History and Literature (EALAC), received his B.A. from Harvard (1993) and his M.A. (1996) and PhD. (2001) from Columbia. He is completing a book manuscript on the development of writing systems in Japan through the Heian period, entitled Realms of Literacy: Early Japan and the History of Writing. [more]


HARUO SHIRANE

Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University, received his B.A. from Columbia College (1974) and his Ph.D. from Columbia University (1983). He is a specialist in premodern and early modern Japanese literature and has written widely on prose fiction, poetry, literary theory, and cultural history. Recently he has explored the issues of canonization, popularization, and visual culture. He is the recipient of NEH, SSRC, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation fellowships. [more]


TOMI SUZUKI

Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. She received her B.A. (1974), and M.A. (1977), from the University of Tokyo, and her Ph.D. from Yale University (1988). She joined the faculty at Columbia in 1996. A specialist in nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative fiction and criticism, her research interests include literary and cultural theory, particularly theories of narrative, genre and gender, modernism and modernity; modern Japanese thought; history of reading, canon formation, and literary histories. [more]


ADJUNCT FACULTY

DONALD KEENE

 

University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus. Professor Keene has published approximately 25 books in English, consisting of studies of Japanese literature and culture, translations of Japanese works... [more]




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