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Phone: 212.854.2037
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Sun Min
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Wiebke Denecke

Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures

Wiebke Denecke, assistant professor of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, joined the Barnard faculty in 2006. In addition to her teaching duties for the department of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures, she is also affiliated with Barnard's comparative literature program.

Professor Denecke's scholarly interests center on the history, thought, and literature of premodern China and Japan, on Japanese appropriations of Chinese culture, and on strategies of cross-cultural comparison.

She is completing a book manuscript that recaptures the development of early Chinese philosophy as a history of the traditional genre of "Masters Literature" (zhuzi baijia). Her second book project, In the Footprints of Others: Latin and Early Japanese Writers and Their Own Literature, examines how early Japanese and Latin authors wrote their literature through and against (respectively) Chinese and Greek precedents.

With Professor Wang Yong at the Institute of Japanese Culture, Zhejiang Gongshang Daxue, Hangzhou, PRC, she is collaborating on a book project entitled The East Asian Book Road and the Development of Sino-Japanese Poetry.

Selected Publications

"Canonizing Parody: On the Sino-Japanese Poems on the Tale of Shining Genji as early Genji reception" (in Japanese), in Kôza Genji monogatari kenkyû volume 11, "Kaigai ni okeru Genji monogatari," ed. H. Shirane (Tokyo: Ôfûsha, forthcoming 2008)

"Tracing the Beginning of Japanese Literature: The Example of the Kaifûsô and the Kokinwakashû" (in Chinese), Riben xuexi yu yanjiu 132 (2007)

"The Development of Topic Poetry: From 'Sino-Japanese Poetry' to 'Japanese Sino-Japanese Poetry' " (in Japanese), in Kudaishi kenkyû, ed. S. Michio (Keiô University Press, 2007)

"'Topic Poetry Is All Ours'—Poetic Composition on Chinese Lines in Early Heian Japan," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 67 (2007)

"Writing History in the Face of the Other: Early Japanese Anthologies and the Beginnings of Literature," Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 76 (2006)

"Disciplines in Translation: From Chinese Philosophy to Chinese What?" Culture, Theory, Critique 47 (2006)

"Chinese Antiquity and Court Spectacle in Early Kanshi," Journal of Japanese Studies 30 (Winter 2004)

CONTACT:

Wiebke Denecke
Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures
Barnard College

212.854.9538

EDUCATION:

B.A. (equiv.), M.A., George August University, Göttingen, Germany

Ph.D., Harvard University