Dennis Washburn
Dennis Washburn (born July 30, 1954) is an
Japanese Foreign Ministry's citation for contributions to cross-cultural understanding,[3] and in 2008 he received the Japan-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize for translating Tsutomu Mizukami's The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen.[4]
Education
- Harvard University: BA (June, 1976) – While at Harvard University, Dennis studied with some notable figures in American literature, such as Elizabeth Bishop.
- Pembroke College, Oxford University: MA (August, 1979)
- Waseda University: Monbusho Fellow (October, 1983 to March, 1985)
- Yale University: Ph.D. (June, 1991) – Along with Alan Tansman, Dennis earned his Ph.D under the tutelage of Edwin McClellan.
Selected works
Academic studies
- Translating Mount Fuji: Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
- The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.
As editor
- Converting Cultures: Ideology, Religion, and Transformations of Modernity (Editor with A. Kevin Reinhart), Leiden: Brill, 2007.
- Word and Image in Japanese Cinema (Editor with Carole Cavanaugh), New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Translations from Japanese
- Shanghai (上海, Shanhai) by Riichi Yokomitsu, Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2001.
- The Temple of the Wild Geese (雁の寺, Gan no tera) and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen (越前竹人形, Echizen takeningyō), two novellas by Tsutomu Mizukami, Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.
- Laughing Wolf (笑い狼, Warai okami) by Yūko Tsushima, Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2011.
- The Tale of Genji (源氏物語, Genji monogatari) by Murasaki Shikibu (unabridged with annotations and with an introduction), New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2015.[5][6][7][8]
References
- ^ "Dennis Charles Washburn". dartmouth.edu.
- ^ Oransky, Ivan (1 June 1992). "EALC Professor Denied Tenure By University". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
- ^ "Japanese honor Washburn". dartmouth.edu. Vox of Dartmouth. 17 May 2004. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
- ^ "Donald Keene Center". keenecenter.org.
- ^ "The Tale of Genji (unabridged)". wwnorton.com.
- ^ "Book review of The Tale of Genji - Open Letters Monthly - an Arts and Literature Review". openlettersmonthly.com.
- ^ Steven Moore (23 July 2015). "'The Tale of Genji': The work of a brilliant widow 1,000 years ago". Washington Post.
- ^ Ian Buruma (20 July 2015). "A New Translation of "The Tale of Genji" - The New Yorker". The New Yorker.
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