{"id":14584,"date":"2020-08-12T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=14584"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:34:47","slug":"dennis-wuerthner","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/profile\/dennis-wuerthner\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Wuerthner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Spring 2026 Office Hours: Mondays 10:00-11:30, Wednesdays 8:30-10:00, and by appointment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dennis Wuerthner holds a PhD from Ruhr University Bochum in premodern Korean literature. His main field of research is Korean literature, history and culture in a broader East Asian context. He is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hypertexts-%C2%ABKuunmong%C2%BB-Focusing-%C2%ABKuullu%C2%BB-%C2%ABKuungi%C2%BB\/dp\/3631681216\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=PHP5BDFY6ZNV&amp;keywords=wuerthner+kuunmong&amp;qid=1643652658&amp;sprefix=wuerthner+kuunmong%2Caps%2C613&amp;sr=8-1\">A Study of Hypertexts of Kuunmong, focusing on Kuullu\/Kuun\u2019gi<\/a> (Frankfurt a. M.: Peter Lang, 2017) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tales-Strange-Korean-Confucian-Monk-ebook\/dp\/B07SC3P75H\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1P9PFYRAYANJ3&amp;keywords=tales+of+the+strange+by+a+korean+confucian&amp;qid=1643652231&amp;sprefix=tales+of+the+strange+by+a+korean+confucian%2Caps%2C279&amp;sr=8-1\">Tales of the Strange by a Korean Confucian Monk: K\u01d4mo sinhwa by Kim Sis\u01d4p<\/a> (University of Hawaii Press, 2020). His new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/uhpress.hawaii.edu\/title\/poems-and-stories-for-overcoming-idleness-pahan-chip-by-yi-illo\/\">Poems and Stories for Overcoming Idleness: P\u2019ahan chip by Yi Illo<\/a>, an in-depth study and fully annotated translation of P\u2019ahan chip \u7834\u9591\u96c6 ([Poems and Stories for] Overcoming Idleness), the earliest Korean work of sihwa \u8a69\u8a71 (\u201cremarks on poetry\u201d) and one of the oldest extant Korean sources, has recently been published with the University of Hawaii Press.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently completing a book manuscript on insects in premodern Korean literature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wll\/files\/2020\/08\/Curriculum-Vitae-of-Dennis-Wuerthner1.pdf\">Wuerthner CV 9-4-24<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rHIagUe9Xp\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/2023\/04\/28\/new-to-bu-meet-dennis-wuerthner-assistant-professor-of\/\">BU Humanists at Work: Meet Dennis Wuerthner<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;BU Humanists at Work: Meet Dennis Wuerthner&#8221; &#8212; Center for the Humanities\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/humanities\/2023\/04\/28\/new-to-bu-meet-dennis-wuerthner-assistant-professor-of\/embed\/#?secret=rHIagUe9Xp\" data-secret=\"rHIagUe9Xp\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9557,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9557"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19969,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/14584\/revisions\/19969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}