Public Lecture by Dr. Robert Campbell: Dr. Robert Campbell ロバート・キャンベル

Robert Campbell is a scholar of Japanese literature and Director-General of the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL), Tokyo.
 
Born in New York City, he studied in the Departments of Economics and Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Harvard University, before moving to Japan to study early modern literature in the Department of Japanese Language and Literature at Kyushu University. He joined that department as assistant professor, then relocated to Tokyo as associate professor at the National Institute of Japanese Literature. In 2000, Campbell transferred to the University of Tokyo, where he taught as professor of Japanese literature in the Comparative Literature Department until taking on the Directorship of NIJL last spring.

Campbell's research centers on the sinological literature, art, media and intellectual discourses of late Edo and early Meiji period Japan. Besides editing and contributing to numerous volumes on Japanese literature, art and drama, he is active in the Japanese media as television host, news commentator, newspaper columnist, book reviewer and radio personality.

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