Prof. Wiebke Denecke

S C Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture

Primary DLC

Literature

MIT Room: 14N-407

Areas of Interest and Expertise

Classical Literature and Thought of China, Japan and Korea
Comparative Studies of East Asia
World Literature
Politics of Cultural Heritage and Memory

Research Summary

Denecke is interested in the mutually productive comparative exploration of pre-modern thought traditions of philosophy, persuasion, and rhetoric; poetry and poetics; court cultures; the development of literary traditions in multiliterate environments; literary historiography; poetry, cross-cultural encounters, and diplomacy; the history of knowledge formation and knowledge cultures; and the creative recapturing of East Asian traditions in the global present.

Recent Work