Katsuya Hirano
Assistant Professor
Office: 322 McGraw Hall
Phone: 607-254-1329
Fax: 607-255-0469
E-Mail: kh326@cornell.edu
Office Hours: On Leave
Education
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2004
M.A. University of Birmingham (Britain), 1993
B.A. Doshisha University, 1991
Courses
| Fall 2008: | On Leave | |
|---|---|---|
| Spring 2009: | On Leave |
Recent Publications and Awards
Book, Book Chapter, and Article
Book: Editor and translator (also wrote Afterword) of Doing Shisoshi (Doing Intellectual History) by Tetsuo Najita (Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago) (Tokyo: Misuzu shobo (みすず書房), 2008)
Book chapter: “Social Networks and Production of Public Discourse in Edo Popular Culture” in Elizabeth Lillehoj (ed.) Acquisition: Japanese Arts and Their Owners (New York: Floating World Editions, 2007)
Journal Article: 江戸の権力、遊び、そして「対話的文学」(Power, Play and Dialogic Novels in the Late Edo Period）in Misuzu (みすず) (Tokyo: Misuzu shobo (みすず書房), Forthcoming)
Book manuscript in progress: Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan, 1750-1890.
Translations
Book: The Empire’s New Clothes: Paradigm Lost, and Regained by Harry Harootunian (Professor of History, NYU) (Tokyo: Misuzu shobo (みすず書房), Forthcoming)
Articles: Ueki Emori Minken jiyu ron (On Popular Rights and Liberty), Yo ni yoki seifu naru mono naki no setsu (There is No Good Government Anywhere in the World), and Hin min ron (On the Poor), in Readings from Japan’s Modernity (Chicago: University of Chicago, Center for East Asian Studies, 2002)
Article: Tetsuo Najita “Ambiguous Encounters: Ogata Koan and International Studies in Late Tokugawa Osaka,” in Kinsei no Osaka (近世の大坂), (Osaka: University of Osaka Press (大阪大学出版会), 2000)
Article: Tetsuo Najita “Secular Economy and The Concept of Time in Late Tokugawa Japan,” in Bungaku (文学) (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten (岩波書店), 1998)
Article: Watanabe Kazan “Shinkiron” (On the Urgent Matter) in Readings in Tokugawa Thought, (Chicago: University of Chicago, Center for East Asian Studies, 1997)
Awards and Fellowships
Visiting Professor at University of Michigan (Center for Japanese Studies), Spring 2009
The Society for the Humanities Research Grants, Cornell University, 2007-8
Fellowship at DePaul Humanities Center, DePaul University, 2006 (Declined)
Faculty Research and Development Grants, DePaul University, December 2004.
Unsung Hero’s Award (Distinguished Contribution to the University) from Indiana University-South Bend, 2004
International Scholars’ Honor Society, 2004
Center for Japanese Studies Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2002-2003
Bob Adams Memorial Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2002-2003
Center for East Asian Studies Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2001-2002
Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2000-2001
Toyota Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1998-1999
University Fellowship (tuition and stipend), University of Chicago, 1996-2000