Discovering An Explorer 09/17
After years’ of effort by BU Asian study faculty members, BU Mugar library finally agreed to subscribe to the Adam Matthew database. This coming Friday Sept. 17, 12 – 1 pm, Eugenio Menegon (History Department), Alice Tseng (Art History), Bob Murowchick (Archaeology), Cathy Yeh (WLL) and Joseph Kotula (Mugar Library), will be introducing this database for teaching, […]
Professor Abigail Gillman Named “Cooperation Partner” for German Grant Offered at University of Frankfurt
Abigail Gillman has been named a “cooperation partner” on a German grant awarded to a professor at the University of Frankfurt to digitize the correspondence of the German Jewish intellectual Martin Buber (1878-1965). Buber was one of the most influential figures in religion, social thought, education, theology, and the arts, of the twentieth century. He […]
Petrus Liu Receives Research Grant From the Ford Foundation
Together with his Co-PI’s (Lisa Rofel, UC Santa Cruz and Paul Amar, UC Santa Barbara), Professor Petrus Liu received a $240,000 multi-year research grant from the Ford Foundation to study communications gaps and governance solutions for China’s development finance in the global South. With the support of the grant, Professor Liu will lead an international team of researchers […]
Professor Denecke Co-edits Fourth Edition of Norton Anthology of World Literature
Professor Denecke publishes the new Norton Anthology of World Literature! Six years doesn’t seem like a long time—but not in the world of World Literature teaching! As “World Literature” has grown exponentially as a vibrant scholarly and pedagogical paradigm with powerful institutional and public impact we have updated our third edition (2012) for new uses […]
Abigail Gillman Publishes “A History of German Jewish Bible Translation”
“Between 1780 and 1937, Jews in Germany produced numerous new translations of the Hebrew Bible into German. Intended for Jews who were trilingual, reading Yiddish, Hebrew, and German, they were meant less for religious use than to promote educational and cultural goals. Not only did translations give Jews vernacular access to their scripture without Christian […]
Professor Sunil Sharma Publishes Work Exploring Persian Literature
“A celebration and deeply learned account of Persian poetry in Mughal India, this book traces how the idea of Hindustan in the Iranian imagination encountered the actuality of the place and ultimately transformed the literary and aesthetic landscape of the subcontinent. Mughal Arcadia is attractively written, with enthusiasm and erudition, and will delight anyone interested […]
Professor Yuri Corrigan Publishes Work Exploring Dostoevsky
“Strikingly original and marvelously written, Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self not only solves the riddle of Dostoevsky’s conception of the self, but also provides a wealth of new insights into his works. Corrigan’s study is likely to become an event in the field. What is more, it has the potential to be read […]
Professor Yoon Sun Yang Publishes First Monograph
Yoon Sun Yang published her first monograph From Domestic Women to Sensitive Young Men: Translating the Individual in Early Colonial Korea (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2017). Click here to read more information about Professor Yang’s publication.