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Dennis Washburn
Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Oxford University; M. Phil. and Ph.D., Yale University
- Joined the faculty of Dartmouth College in1992
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Academic Interests
- 19th and 20th century literature, postwar cinema, Heian Period literature, comparative literary studies
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Selected Courses
- Japanese 61: Topics in 20th Century Japanese Literature and Culture: "Cultures of Defeat, Japanese film and fiction in the postwar era"
- Japanese 63: Topics in Classical Japanese Literature and Culture: "The Karma of Love: Japanese women writers and the classical canon"
- Comparative Literature 10: Ghostwriters and Artistic Haunts: The aesthetics of horror in Japanese and Western fiction and film
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Selected Publications
- The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction (1995)
- Studies in Modern Japanese Literature (1997)
- Word and Image in Japanese Cinema (2000)
- Shanghai (a translation, 2001)
- A Wife in Musashino (a translation, 2004)
- Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity (2006)
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Awards
- Japan Foreign Ministry commendation, 2004
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