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Jonathan Zwicker, Assistant Professor, Japanese Culture, Asian Languages and Cultures

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

    Early-Modern /Modern Japanese literature and cultural history. History of the book and the sociology of reading. Comparative East-Asian literature.

EDUCATION

  • PhD, Columbia University
  • MA, Columbia University
  • BA, Columbia University

SELECT GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

  • Rackham Fellowship and Grant, 2006.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

  • Practices of the Sentimental Imagination: Melodrama, the Novel, and the Social Imaginary in Nineteenth-century Japan, forthcoming Harvard Asia Center, 2006.

  • "The Long Nineteenth-Century of the Japanese Novel" in The Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2004) ed. Franco Moretti et al. [Originally published as ‘Il lungo Ottocento del romanzo giapponese’ in vol. 3 Storia e geografia, , pp. 441-447, Il romanzo 5 vols. (Turin: Einaudi, 2002), ed. Franco Moretti et al. pp.441-477].

  • "Statistics of the Novel: Japan 1850-1900" in The Novel (Princeton: Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2004) ed. Franco Moretti et al. [Originally published as ‘Le cifre del romanzo: Giappone 1850-1900’ in vol. 3 Storia e geografia, pp. 379-388, Il romanzo 5 vols. (Turin: Einaudi, 2002), ed. Franco Moretti et al. pp.379-388].


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