Visiting Research Fellow
Wolfgang SCHAMONI
Degree/Brief Employment Record:
- 1970
- Ph.D., The University of Bonn
- 1985
- Professor, Heidelberg University
- 2011 -
- Visiting Research Fellow, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Specialized Fields:
Japanese Literature
Current Research Themes:
Research on Matsuura Takeshirō’s “Kinsei Ezo jinbutsushi”
Major Publications:
- 2010
- “World literature: a term used already half a century before Goethe” Bungaku 11(3), pp.173-188 (in Japanese)
- 2009
- “Starting a life in 10th century Japanese biographies”, Susanne Enderwitz, Wolfgang Schamoni (edd.), Biography as World Literature: a survey of biographical literature in the 10th century, Heidelberg, pp.179-203 (in German)
- 2008
- “Crossing Frontiers in the North: Matsuura Takeshirō (1818-1888) and his Ainu biographies”, Judít Árokay et al. (edd.), Essays in Honour of Irmela Hijiya Kirschnereit on the occasion of her 60th birthday, München, pp.139-158 (in German)
- 2006
- “Towards a literary history of the preface”, Bungaku 7(4) (Iwanami shoten), pp.187-200 (in Japanese)
- 2000
- “The Rise of ‘Literature’ in Early Meiji”, Irmela Hijiya Kirschnereit (ed.) Canon and Identity: Japanese modernization reconsidered : trans-cultural perspective, Tokyo, pp.37-60 (in English)
