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500A
Kent Hall
Office Hours: T.B.A
Phone:(212)854-5316
Email:
dbl11@columbia.edu
Personal webpage: http://www.columbia.edu/~dbl11
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Assistant
Professor of Japanese History and Literature.
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. Publications include
"Language, Writing, and Disciplinarity in the Critique
of the 'Ideographic Myth': Some Proleptical Remarks,"
Language & Communication 26 (2006); A Brief History of
Japanese Civilization, 2nd edition (coauthored with
Conrad Schirokauer and Suzanne Gay, 2006); and "On the
Inscription of the Hitomaro Poetry Collection: Between
Literary History and the History of Writing,"
Man'yoshu kenkyu 26 (2004). In addition to the history
of writing systems and literacy, his research
interests include the literary and cultural history of
seventh- through twelfth- century Japan, the Japanese
reception of Chinese literary, historical, and
technical writings, the development of Japanese
dictionaries and encyclopedias, and the history of
linguistic thought.
See http://www.columbia.edu/~dbl11/selfintro.html
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