Wiebke Denecke (魏樸和), S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, professor of East Asian Literatures at MIT. She was trained in Sinology, Japanology, Korean studies, Philosophy, and Medicine in her native Germany, in Hungary, Norway, Dalian, Taipei, Tokyo, Seoul, and Boston. Her research and teaching encompass the classical literatures and philosophical traditions of China, Japan, and Korea, comparative studies of East Asia and the premodern world, world literature, and the politics of cultural heritage and memory. Denecke is co-editor of The Norton Anthology of World Literature and co-curates the book series East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture with Brill Publishers. In 2019 she established the Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature and became its Inaugural Editor-in-Chief. Denecke is currently working on a history of Japanese and Korean literary culture from a global perspective, on translations of Japanese and Korean Sinitic poetry, and on the soft-power effects of poetry in premodern East Asian diplomacy.
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