Yoichi Nagashima

CV

University Education

University of Copenhagen, Russian studies             B.A. 1973
University of Copenhagen, Japanese studies           M.A. 1978
University of Copenhagen, Japanese literature        Ph.D. 1982

Employments and posts

University of Copenhagen:    
                   Foreign teaching professor    1980-83
                   Assistant professor              1984-86
                   Associate professor              1986-2006    
                   Professor                           2007-
Director, Japan Information Center, Univ. of Copenhagen       1983-95
Chairman, Bord of Study, Department of Asian Studies,
    Univ. of Copenhagen                        1995-99
Erasmus/Socrates Cooridinator, Univ. of Copenhagen        1996-2005
Director of Department of Asian Studies, Univ. of Copenhagen    2001-2006
Member of Executive Committee for Professor, dr.phil. Arthur
    Christensen og Hustrus Legat for Orientalister        2002-
Deputy Head of Institute of Global Studies, Univ. of Copenhagen    2003-2004
Deputy Head of Institute of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies,
         – Language, Religion and Society, Univ. of Copenhagen    2004-2006    
Visiting professor at Tokai University                2005
Head of Section for Asian Studies, Univeristy of Copenhagen    2007-

Honorary awards

3rd Mori Ogai Prize, 1993
Honorary lifetime member of Mori Ogai Society, since 1994
31st Japan Translator Award, 1995
Harald Prize for the most outstanding teacher of the year, University of Copenhagen, 2002

Primary fields of research

 

Japanese language: modern and classic.

Modern and contemporary Japanese lierature: Mori Ôgai, Iwano Hômei, Abé Kôbô, and Murakami Haruki.

Comparative Literature: Mori Ôgai's translations of Scandinavian literature; Hanc Christian Andersen, August Strindberg, Henrik Ibsen.

Japanese culture and society: Animé, Manga.

Cultural Translation: Cultural relations between Denmark and Japan 

Current research

 

 

– Cultural relations between Denmark and Japan 1873-1905, a book scheduled to be published in 2009.

    (The first volume covering 1600-1873 was published in 2003.)

 

 – Exercises in ‘Cultural Translation’ – Mori Ôgai’s Translation of Ibsen’s Plays.

 

– Analyses of Haruki Murakami's works.