Wiebke Denecke Promoted to Professor
Congratulations to WLL’s Wiebke Denecke, who has been promoted to Professor!
Professor Stan Sclaroff, Interim Dean of CAS, writes, “This is a well-deserved promotion, indeed. Your colleagues have said that you are an outstanding scholar, leader, and teacher, and your dean, provost, and president have concurred in this judgment.” We are very excited for Professor Denecke.
Denecke’s research and teaching encompasses the classical literatures of China and Japan (and more recently Korea), comparative studies of East Asia and the premodern world, and world literature. She is interested in fundamental questions involving comparisons of early thought traditions of philosophy, persuasion, and rhetoric; poetry and poetics; court cultures; the development of literary traditions in multiliterate environments; literature, cross-cultural encounters, and diplomacy; and the creative recapturing of ancient East Asian traditions in the global present