Haruo Shirane (born 16 September 1951) is the Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Chair of East Asian Languages and Cultures at

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Biography

Shirane received his B.A. and Ph.D. from

and joined Columbia's faculty in 1987. In 1996 he was appointed to the Shincho Professorship of Japanese Literature and Culture.CV1
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/ref> In 2010, he was awarded the Ueno Satsuki Memorial Prize on Japanese Culture for his contributions to the study of Japanese culture. In 2022, he was named a honorary member of the

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Selected publications

*Shirane, Haruo (2012)
''Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature, and the Arts''
New York:

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. *Shirane, Haruo, ed. (2012)
''Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, (Abridged Edition)''
New York: Columbia University Press. *Shirane, Haruo (2010), ed
''The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales''
translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press. *Shirane, Haruo, ed. (2008)
''Envisioning The Tale of Genji''
New York: Columbia University Press. *Shirane, Haruo, ed. (2008)
''Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900 (Abridged Edition)''
New York: Columbia University Press. *Shirane, Haruo, ed. (2007)
''Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600''
New York: Columbia University Press. *Shirane, Haruo, ed. (2006)
''The Tales of the Heike''
translated by Burton Watson. New York: Columbia University Press. *Shirane, Haruo (2005)
''Classical Japanese: A Grammar''
New York: Columbia University Press. *Shirane, Haruo, ed. (2002)
''Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900''
New York: Columbia University Press. *Shirane, Haruo (2001). ''Bashō no Fūkei, Bunka no kioku''. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten. *Shirane, Haruo, and Tomi Suzuki, eds. (2000)
''Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature''
Stanford:

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. *Shirane, Haruo (1998)
''Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Basho''
Stanford: Stanford University Press. *Shirane, Haruo (1992). ''Yume no ukihashi: Genji monogatari no shigaku''. Tokyo: Chūō Kōron Sha. *Shirane, Haruo (1987)
''The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of The Tale of Genji''
Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Affiliations

Links

Haruo Shirane's Columbia profile pageHaruo Shirane's homepageHaruo Shirane

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shirane, Haruo Columbia University faculty Weatherhead East Asian Institute faculty Columbia College (New York) alumni 1951 births Living people Japanologists Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Members of the Japan Academy