Reading and interpreting: basics of Japanese literature research

Speaker: Tsuyoshi Namigata, professor, Kyushu University

Time: 10:00-12:15, March 12

Venue: East 1A-504, Zijingang Campus

Abstract: Tsuyoshi Namigata is a Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan. He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Japanese Studies of Seoul National University, Korea, 2011-2012, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the United States, 2022-2023. He published his Ph.D. dissertation as a monograph of Ekkyo no Avangyarudo [Border-Crossings in the Japanese Avantgarde] in 2005, later translated into Korean in 2013. He is now trying to examine the historical meaning of Japanese literary modernism during wartime and write the regional history of literary modernism in East Asia.