Adam L. Kern

TITLE: 
Associate Professor
phone: 
262.8731
email: 
alkern@wisc.edu
office_hours: 
Thu 2:30-3:30
FIELDS OF STUDY: 

Early modern Japanese literature,
popular culture, and visual culture

CURRENT RESEARCH: 

Discourses of Incoherence: Literary Nonsense in Early Modern Japan (in progress).

The Penguin Book of Haiku (London: Penguin Classics, fortcoming).

COURSES: 

East Asian 367 "Japanese Poetic Tradition Seminar—Haiku"

East Asian 373 "Topics in Japanese Literature—The Comic Imagination"

East Asian 376 "Manga"

Lit Trans 372 "Classical Japanese Prose in Translation—Early Modern"

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyôshi of Edo Japan (Harvard University Asia Center, 2006).

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/KERMAN.html

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