Ghent University

Faculty Member, Japanese Language and Culture

About

I studied Japan studies and modern sinology at the Universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg in Germany, the Nihon University at Mishima, Japan, and the Shanghai Foreign Language University in China. My dissertation, "Wer war Takeuchi Yoshimis Lu Xun? Ein Annäherungsversuch an ein Monument der japanischen Sinologie" ("Who was Takeuchi Yoshimi's Lu Xun? Approaching a monument of Japanese Sinology"), was awarded the JaDe-award 2003 and was published as a book in the same year with Iudicium, Munich. I was a Japanese interpreter and a guest lecturer at the universities of Frankfurt and Heidelberg and then worked in the Netherlands at the University of Leiden, first as a postdoctoral research fellow and subsequently as a full-time lecturer (fix-term). Currently I am tenured professor at the Japan section of the department of South and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Ghent University in Belgium. In my reasearch I focus on issues of intellectual history and philosophy in modern Japan and China.

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