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Asian and Near Eastern Languages & Literatures


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Gerry Everding
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(314) 935-5230
Chair, Fall: Fatemeh Keshavarz (fatemeh@wustl.edu)

Administrative Officer: Debra Jones (dsjones@artsci.wustl.edu)

Acting Chair, Spring: Robert Hegel (rhegel@wustl.edu)

Home Page: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~anell/

Location: 121 Busch Hall

Email: anell@artsci.wustl.edu

Telephone: (314) 935-5156

The Department offers program in the study of Asian and Near Eastern languages and literatures, including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean and Persian. Faculty often offer expertise in related social, cultural and literary traditions; most have extensive experience conducting research and traveling in countries where these languages are spoken. A major in Asian and Near Eastern languages and literatures opens up career opportunities in diplomacy, business, law, journalism, and higher education.


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Tale of Genji

Campus celebrates 1000th anniversary of 'world's first novel,' April 18 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/11469.html)

April 4, 2008 --
One mark of a great novel, it's been said, is its ability to stand the "test of time" — to remain captivating to readers from generation to generation. Washington University will honor such a novel on April 18 with two campus events celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of the Tale of Genji, a central pillar of the Japanese literary canon often hailed as the world's first novel.


Asian Studies

WUSTL hosts Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Oct. 19-21 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/10203.html)

Oct. 1, 2007 -- Marxism in China, taboo images in Tibet and war, sex work and memory in 20th century Japan will be among topics discussed as Washington University welcomes the 56th Annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA) to St. Louis, Oct, 19-21. Program includes pre-conference workshop for K-12 teachers on Oct. 13


Media Advisory

Bollywood stars to give talk Nov. 29 (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/8312.html)

Nov. 21, 2006 -- Bollywood film star Shabana Azmi will talk about South Asian social issues filtered through her perspective as an actress and a social justice advocate at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 29, in Graham Chapel. The program is free and open to the public. Her husband, Bollywood scriptwriter Javed Akhtar, will also give remarks.



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Faculty Experts:

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Rebecca Copeland

Professor of Japanese Language & Literature (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/531.html)

Copeland received her Ph.D. in Japanese Literature from Columbia University in 1986. Her dissertation concerned the writer Uno Chiyo (1897-1996). This study was subsequently published as The Sound of the Wind: The Life and Works of Uno Chiyo (University of Hawai'i Press, 1992.) Copeland's study of ...


Expertise: Japan, Japanese Literature, women writers, gender issues, translation theory and practice

Direct contact: (314) 935-4903 / copeland@artsci.wustl.edu


Beata Grant

Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies (http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/532.html)

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Grant teaches a broad range of courses in literature and religious studies, including Introduction to Buddhism and Introduction to Asian Religions. Her writings include a long study of the Woman Huang story-cycle, Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih, and several articles ...


Expertise: Chinese religion and literature, Pre-modern Chinese women's literature and culture, Buddhism

Direct contact: (314) 935-5156 / bgrant@wustl.edu



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With a rebel yell
The Guardian (UK)

May 31, 2005 -- Writer says Japanese youth culture has long embraced bizarre fashion, subversive comics and sexual graffiti. Now a new wave of violent female fiction is causing shockwaves. Article features author Hitomi Kanehara and her book Snakes and Earrings. WUSTL Japanese literature professor Rebecca Copeland comments on the way Japanese women writers are using popular fiction to raise questions about their society.




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Related Links:
Library Resources: East Asian Studies (http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/eastasian/)
Library Resources: Jewish, Near Eastern (http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/jne/)
Library Resources: Islamic, Near Eastern (http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/islamic/)

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