TODAY! Ted Goossen, Japanese Monkeys in the Making: Fifteen Years of Monkey (Business). BU Literary Translation Series (Feb. 3, 2023)

The 2023 Boston University Lecture Series in Literary Translation is pleased to present

Ted Goossen

(Dept. of the Humanities, York University)

Japanese Monkeys in the Making: Fifteen Years of Monkey (Business)

Friday, February 3, 2023 in CAS 306, 725 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA 02215

Theodore (Ted) Goossen is Professor of Humanities at York University in Toronto, Canada, a founding member of the Department of Contemporary Literary Studies at the University of Tokyo, and a co-founder of the Canada Japan Society. He has translated many Japanese authors including Hiromi Kawakami, Naoya Shiga, and Haruki Murakami and is editor of The Oxford Book of Japanese Short Stories and co-editor of Monkey Business International, the first Japanese literary magazine available in an English version. At present, he is translating Kawakami’s recent novel, The Third Love (Sandome no Koi).