Shincho
Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
Haruo Shirane is Shincho Professor of Japanese
Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian
Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. He
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.
His major publications include The Bridge of Dreams:
Poetics of The Tale of Genji (Stanford University
Press, 1987) which was translated into Japanese as
Yume no ukihashi: Genji monogatari no shigaku (Chūō
kōronsha, 1992) and won the Kadokawa Gen'yoshi Prize
for the best study on Japanese literature, and The
Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the
Poetry of Basho (Stanford University Press, 1997)
which was published in Japanese by Kadokawa shoten
(2001) and received the 2002 Ishida Hakyō Prize. He
has recently completed a manuscript on the role of
nature in Japanese poetry and visual culture called
Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Poetry, and
Time-Space in Japan.
Haruo Shirane is editor of Envisioning The Tale of
Genji: Media, Gender, and Social Imaginary, Media, and
Cultural Production (Columbia University Press, 2008),
Kōza Genji monogatari kenkyū: Kaigai ni okeru Genji
monogatari kenkyū (Ōfū, 2008), and Inventing the
Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese
Literature (Stanford University Press, 2000), which
appeared in Japanese (1999) and Korean (2002) and was
co-edited with Tomi Suzuki. He has translated and
edited Classical Japanese Literature, An Anthology:
Beginnings to 1600 (Columbia UP, 2006) and Early
Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900
(Columbia University Press, 2002). He was also
co-editor of The Longman Anthology of World Literature
(2004) and edited The Tales of the Heike (Columbia
University Press, 2006). He is the author of Classical
Japanese: A Grammar (Columbia University Press, 2005)
and Classical Japanese Reader and Essential Dictionary
(Columbia University Press, 2006).
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