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David B. Lurie
Assistant Professor
Columbia University
East Asian Lang-Cult
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Biography
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. 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.
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