Dennis Washburn

Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature
6191 Bartlett Hall
Phone: 603-646-1287
dennis.washburn@dartmouth.edu

Education

Ph. D Yale University
M.A. Pembroke College, Oxford University,  and Waseda University
B.A. Harvard University

Areas of Expertise

• Japanese literature and culture
• Translation
• Japanese film

Selected Publications

• Temple of the Wild Geese/The Bamboo Doll of Echizen (Gan no tera/ Echizen take ningyo), by Tsutomu Mizukami, translation, (2008).Converting Cultures: Ideology, Religion, and
• Transformations of Modernity, co-edited with A K Reinhart, (August 2007)
• Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity, (2006).
• Shanghai, by Yokomitsu Riichi, translation, (2001).
• Word and Image in Japanese Cinema, co-edited with C Cavanaugh, (2000).
• The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction, (1995).

Current Projects

• Translation of Warai ookami (Laughing Wolf) by Tsushima Yuko; Norton Critical Edition of The Tale of Genji; preparing a comparative study of the concept of the "Gothic sublime"