Elsa Chanez participates in National Humanities Center Graduate Student Summer Residency program

8.31.23

EALC PhD student invited to attend Graduate Student Summer Residency

Stellar literary networks

5.1.23

A serendipitous succession of events led Center for the Humanities Graduate Student Fellow Laurel Taylor to discover Japan’s cell-phone novel, an early 2000s genre that made authors out of anonymous amateurs and readers out of millions of flip-phone users.

Elsa Chanez receives library essay award

4.28.23

Chanez receives 2023 Neureuther essay award

Elsa Chanez receives awards

4.19.23

Elsa Chanez selected for Graduate Student Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center and receives a Japan Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Award

Lei Hu Article Published

4.10.23

Lei's article "Immersed in the Fleeting World of Modernity: Edo Music and the Aestheticism of Melancholy in Nagai Kafū’s Literary World" published in Japanese Language and Literature Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Japanese (April 2023)

Ran Wei Article Published in Transnational Asia Journal

2.17.23

Ran Wei's article, "Solidarity on the Margins: Narrating the Zainichi in Yi Yang-ji’s 'Woman Diver' (Kazukime, 1983) and Nakagami Kenji’s 'Flower Boy' (Fuaramu, 1980)" was published in the special issue "Revisiting Zainichi" of the online journal Transnational Asia.

Adam Manfredi receives Graduate Writing Fellowship

4.21.22

Adam Manfredi receives fellowship from The Writing Center

Japanese PhD student Ran Wei awarded Divided City grant

4.20.22

Ran Wei, Japanese PhD student, awarded Center for the Humanities Divided City grant

Adam Manfredi selected as a recipient of Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence for 2020-21

4.21.21

Adam Manfredi receives the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence

Kevin Gao selected as a recipient of Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence for 2019-20

3.9.21

Kevin Gao receives the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence

Graduate students studying Japanese literature awarded Fulbright and Japan Foundation grants

11.4.20

Five graduate students studying Japanese literature at Washington University have been awarded grants to conduct dissertation research in Japan.

Nan Hu wins graduate fellowship from the Center for the Humanities

7.17.20

Hu's dissertation is tentatively titled, “Voicing the Foreign: Dubbing for Films in Socialist China (1949-1978).”