Satoru Hashimoto
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Contact Information
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- On Leave: Academic Year 2024-25
- 410-516-7619
Research Interests: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literatures and cultures; modernities and modernisms; comparative literature, aesthetics, and intellectual history; aesthetics and justice; post-secularism; world literature
Prior to his appointment at Hopkins, Professor Hashimoto was an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2014-15, he was a Junior Fellow in the University of Chicago Society of Fellows. He holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a BA and an MA in French literature and culture from the University of Tokyo. His first book, Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Literatures (Columbia 2023), examines how modern literature in China, Japan, and Korea was produced in the contexts of these nations’ interrelated literary traditions. He has published in English, Japanese, Chinese, and French on topics in comparative literature, aesthetics, and thought engaging East Asian and European traditions. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of World Literature.
Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea
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Columbia University Press ,
2023