Sarah Frederick Has Translated Yoshiya Nobuko’s influential Flower Stories
MLCL’s own Sarah Frederick has just published the first translation into English of a story from Yoshiya Nobuko’s influential Flower Stories (Hanamonogatari), “Yellow Rose” (1923). As the extensive introduction shows, this author and this series of emotional stories has been influential in Japanese girls’ culture, including contemporary shojo anime and manga. With hopes of […]
Workshop on Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature, co-edited by Professor Wiebke Denecke
On December 4 and 5 2014 two dozen scholars from the US, Europe, Taiwan, and Vietnam convened at the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at Harvard to discuss their drafts for an Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature 1000 BCE-900 CE. The workshop was generously sponsored by the Boston University Center for the Study […]
Prof. Margaret Litvin’s essay on Teaching Literary Translation at BU
MLCL’s own Professor Margaret Litvin recently published and article on teaching the Literary Translation Seminar here at Boston University. Read it here!
MLCL’s Wiebke Denecke publishes the new Norton Anthology of Western Literature
Used by thousands of students in the US every year, the Norton Anthology of Western Literature has for decades been a giant in the landscape of literature and liberal arts education. Over the past few years Wiebke Denecke has spearheaded this anthology and the Norton Anthology of World Literature (published in 2012) with a small […]
Professor Denecke and Zhang Longxi (Hong Kong) launch a new book series on East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture with Qian Zhongshu’s essays
MLCL’s own Wiebke Denecke and Zhang Longxi’s, of the City University of Hong Kong just launched a new book series devoted to the comparative study of East Asian literatures and cultures with Brill publishers. With the increasing international importance of East Asia in economic, political, and cultural terms, more and more readers are interested […]
Denecke Book Publication
MLCL’s own Wiebke Denecke has published a new book, named Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons. Read more about it here! Buy it here!
Prof. Wiebke Denecke Publishes Volume on the Long History of the Concept of “Literature” in Japan
Conference volume on the changing faces of the concept of “literature” in East Asia and Japan, edited by Wiebke Denecke (BU, MLCL) and Kimiko Kono (Waseda University, Director of the Institute of Japanese Classics, Tokyo). This volume is the first attempt to recapture the adventurous history and future critical potential of the Chinese concept of […]
Prof. Keith Vincent’s “Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction” released
Assistant Professor of Japanese Keith Vincent has just released Two-Timing Modernity: Homosocial Narrative in Modern Japanese Fiction. Pick up your copy today!
Anna Zielinska-Elliot’s Guide to Murakami’s Tokyo published
Congratulations to MLCL’s Dr. Anna Zielinska-Elliott on the publication of her book Haruki Murakami i jego Tokio. Przewodnik nie tylko literacki (Haruki Murakami and his Tokyo: A Not-Just-Literary Guide).
Wiebke Denecke’s Norton Anthology published
Congratulations to Wiebke Denecke, MLCL Assistant Professor of Chinese, Japanese and Comparative Literature, on the publication of the new six-volume Norton Anthology of World Literature, of which she was co-editor.