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Thursday, February 6, 2025
6:30PM EST
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jicc@ws.mofa.go.jp

Dr. Anri Yasuda

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

Anri Yasuda is an Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of Virginia. She holds MA degrees from Columbia University and Waseda University, and her Ph.D. is from Columbia University. Her research and publications examine the literature and visual arts of Japan from the late nineteenth century to the present, focusing on themes like aesthetic theory and the connections between various artistic mediums, representations of gender, and transnational artistic discourses.

Professor Yasuda’s talk today is based on her monograph Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930 (Columbia University Press, 2024).


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