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Dennis Charles Washburn

Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, and of Comparative Literature
Dartmouth Professorship in Classics
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Departments

  • Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures
  • Comparative Literature

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Contact Information

Email: dennis.washburn@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 603-646-1287
Office: 6191 Bartlett Hall

Education

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

Areas of Expertise

Japanese literature and culture; translation; Japanese film

Selected Works

  • 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"