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Kent Hall
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Phone:(212)854-7403
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Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus
Professor Keene received his B.A. (1942), M.A. (1947),
and Ph.D. (1949) degrees from Columbia University,
and his Litt. D. from Cambridge University in 1978.
He is the recipient of the Kikuchi Kan Prize of the
Society for the Advancement of Japanese Culture (1962);
the Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class (1993) and
Third Class (1975); the Japan Foundation Prize (1983);
the Yomiuri Shimbun Prize (1985); the Shincho Grand
Literary Prize (1985); the Tokyo Metropolitan Prize
(1987); the Radio and Television Culture Prize (1993);
and the Asahi Prize (1998). He has received honorary
degrees from St. Andrew's College (1990), Middlebury
College (1995), Columbia University (1997), Tohoku
University (1997), Waseda University (1998), Tokyo
Gaikokugo Daigaku (1999), and Keiwa University (2000).
He was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri
Literary Prize for the best book of literary criticism
in Japanese (awarded in 1985 for the original Japanese
version of Travelers of a Hundred Ages) and he was
awarded the Nihon Bungaku Taisho (Grand Prize of Japanese
Literature) for the same work. In 1991 he received
the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandorf Award,
and in 1994 he won the Inoue Yasushi Prize. Professor
Keene has been a member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences since 1976, and the American Academy
of Arts and Letters since 1986; and in 1990 he became
an honorary member of the Japan Academy. He began
teaching at Columbia University in 1955, and was named
Columbia University Shincho Professor of Japanese
Literature in 1981 and University Professor in 1989;
he is currently a 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 of both classical and modern literature,
and edited works including two anthologies of Japanese
literature and the collection Twenty Plays of the
No Theatre. His major publications include a four-volume
history of Japanese literature. Professor Keene's
Japanese publications include approximately 30 books,
some written originally in Japanese, others translated
from English. The Japanese translation of his history
of Japanese literature has appeared in 18 volumes.
His biography of Emperor Meiji in two volumes was
published in October 2001 by Shinchosha. The English
text, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912,
is scheduled to be published by Columbia University
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