Author: Eveleen Sung

Professor Wiebke Denecke’s book “The Dynamics of Masters Literature: Early Chinese Thought from Confucius to Han Feizi” published

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The importance of the rich corpus of “Masters Literature” that developed in China since the fifth century B.C.E. has long been recognized. But just what are these texts? Scholars have often approached them as philosophy, but these writings have also been studied as literature, history, and anthropological, religious, and paleographic records. How should we translate […]

Professor Peter Schwartz’s book “After Jena” published

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After Jena is the first scholarly work in English to set Goethe’s influential and controversial novel Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809) squarely within the turbulent time in which it was written. Peter J. Schwartz explores the era of rapid modernization following Prussia’s defeat at the battle of Jena-Auerstedt (1806) — a battle that permitted Napoleon to […]

Professor Keith Vincent publishes co-edited volume

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How did nerves and neuroses take the place of ghosts and spirits in Meiji Japan? How does Natsume Soseki’s canonical novel Kokoro pervert the Freudian teleology of sexual development? What do we make of Jacques Lacan’s infamous claim that because of the nature of their language the Japanese people were unanalyzable? And how are we […]

Arabic minor approved!

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CAS has approved a minor in Arabic; students can graduate with the minor concentration effective immediately if they have fulfilled all requirements. See a description of the Arabic minor.

Professor Sunil Sharma co-curating “Sacred Spaces” exhibition at Harvard’s Sackler Museum

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Professor Sunil Sharma is co-curating an exhibition at Harvard University’s Sackler Museum titled Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs, and Sufis. This exhibition combines representations of Islamic holy men in Sufi traditions with calligraphic specimens of mystical texts. The exhibition runs from August 6, 2009 to January 3, 2010. Professor Sharma has organized the exhibit […]

Professor Margaret Litvin awarded a Peter Paul Development Professorship

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Dr. Margaret Litvin, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature, has been awarded a Peter Paul Development Professorship. The award was established in 2006 by a gift from Peter Paul to recognize the “very best young faculty” who are within the first two years of their appointments to Boston University. The competition is University-wide; recipients […]

Professor Abigail Gillman publishes “Viennese Jewish Modernism”

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In Viennese Jewish Modernism, Abigail Gillman challenges the conventional understanding of modernism as simply a break from tradition. Until recently, the study of Jewish modernism has centered on questions of Jewish and non-Jewish identity, generally ignoring the role Judaism played in the formulation of European modernism as a whole. By focusing on the works of […]