The Global Japanese Studies Model Unit will organize the lecture “Sinitic Poetry Journals in Postwar Japan: Exploring Gayū” by Dr. Matthew Fraleigh from Brandeis University. The event will be held in Japanese.
Event Overview
- Date and time: November 8, 2022, 16:30 – 18:00 (JST)
- Language: Japanese
- Lecturer: Dr. Matthew Fraleigh Associate Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture
Dept. of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature, Brandeis University) - Venue: Conference room 1, Building 33, Toyama Campus, Waseda University, and online
- Participation is free.
- Advance registration required.
Click here or scan the QR code for the registration of zoom participation.
Lecturer profile:
Matthew Fraleigh is Associate Professor of East Asian Literature and Culture and co-chair of the Program in East Asian Studies. His research concerns the literature of early modern and modern Japan, especially kanshibun (Sinitic poetry and prose). His work has appeared in journals such as Japan Forum, Japanese Studies, Monumenta Nipponica, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Kokugo kokubun, and the London Review of Books. He has published two books: Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan (Harvard, 2016) and New Chronicles of Yanagibashi and Diary of a Journey to the West: Narushima Ryūhoku Reports From Home and Abroad (Cornell, 2010). The latter, an annotated translation, was awarded the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize, and in 2012, he received the Sibley Prize for his translation of Ryūhoku’s prison essay, Super Secret Tales From the Slammer. He is currently working on two book projects. The first concerns literary and cultural interaction between Japan and Taiwan. The second examines theoretical discourse concerning Sinitic poetry published in 17th to 19th century
