Assistant Professor of East Asian Literatures, Convener of Korean
Fall 2024 office hours: Mondays 10.00 – 11.30 am / Wednesdays 8.30 – 10.00 am.
Dennis Wuerthner holds a PhD from Ruhr University Bochum in premodern Korean literature. His main field of research is Korean literature, history and culture in a broader East Asian context. He is the author of A Study of Hypertexts of Kuunmong, focusing on Kuullu/Kuun’gi (Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2017) and Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk: Kǔmo sinhwa by Kim Sisǔp (University of Hawaii Press, 2020). His new book, Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P’ahan chip by Yi Illo, an in-depth study and fully annotated translation of P’ahan chip 破閑集 ([Poems and Stories for] Overcoming Idleness), the earliest Korean work of sihwa 詩話 (“remarks on poetry”) and one of the oldest extant Korean sources, has recently been published with the University of Hawaii Press.
He is currently completing a book manuscript on insects in premodern Korean literature.