Faculty

Specially Appointed Faculty (Domestic)

Oliver WHITE International Research Planning Office
Specialized Field(s)	Japanese literature
Current Research Themes	My research centers on late 18th and early 19th century popular vernacular literature (gesaku), focusing on the cluster of texts surrounding Jippensha Ikku’s Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige (Along the Eastern Seaboard Highway by Shank’s Mare). I investigate issues of genre, humor, translation, print culture, textuality, performativity, and the interactions between prose, poetry, and image.
Keywords for Research	Japanese early modern popular literature, humor, print culture, translation theory, genre theory

2023	Ph.D., Columbia University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Japanese Literature)

2020	Visiting Research Fellow, Waseda University
2023	Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

2015	B.A., University of Cambridge
2016	M.Phil., University of Cambridge
2018	M.A., University of Cambridge
2018	M.A., Columbia University
2019	M.Phil., Columbia University
2020	M.A., Waseda University
2023	Ph.D., Columbia University

Presentations, Symposiums, Lectures etc.

・ (Conference, Presenter, organiser), “Reading Performances and Performing Readings in Late Edo Print Culture”, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 2023
・ (Symposium, Presenter), “Imitate, Innovate, Iterate: The Makings of a Viral Hit in 19th Century Japan”, Waseda-Columbia International Workshop, January 2022
・ (Conference, Presenter), “A Novel Navel: Proverbs, Pictures and Performances in a bakumatsu Hanashibon Series”, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 2018

Lectures

・ November 2017, Columbia University, “The Globalization of Modern Japanese Literature”
・ October 2017, Columbia University, “Popular Culture in Edo Period Japan”