The Institute for Japanese Studies is pleased to host Dr. William Puck Brecher, Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Washington State University.
Dr. Brecher is an Assistant Professor of Japanese (Ph.D. University of Southern California, 2005) at Washington State University. His research interests include the early modern and modern periods as well as Japanese thought, aesthetics, literature, urban history, art history, and environmental activism. His works have been published in the Journal of Japanese Studies, Japan Review, Japan Studies Review, and Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal, among others. His latest book is titled The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan (University of Hawaii Press, 2013). His courses at Washington State University include Traditional Japanese Culture, East Asian Literature, East Asian Ethics, and Japanese Language. This lecture is free and open to the public. This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Japanese Studies, East Asian Studies Center, and a U.S. Department of Education Title VI Grant. For more information, please contact: Janet Stucky Smith at stucky.7@osu.edu , 614-292-3345.
