2012 News & Events
Seventh Annual Conference of the International Society for Akutagawa Ryûnosuke Studies, October 5-6, 2012
Akutagawa Keynote Speaker: Jay Rubin
"A Translator's View"
Professor Rubin has translated NatsumeSōseki 's novels Sanshirō and The Miner, Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, after the quake, and Books 1 and 2 of 1Q84. He is the author of Injurious to Public Morals: Writers and the Meiji State and Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, and the editor of Modern Japanese Writers.
Rubin began to study Japanese at the University of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in 1970, and has been a professor of Japanese literature at the University of Washington and Harvard University