Prof. Dr. Judit Árokay Teaching and Courses

Regular Courses:

• Lecture: “Cultural Foundations of East Asia”
• East Asia Colloquium for Master’s Candidates and Doctoral Students
• Research Colloquia for Doctoral Candidates and Degree Candidates in Japanese Studies
• Subject-Specific Reading (Literary and Cultural Studies) in the B.A. Program

Advanced seminars on the following topics:

• Methods of Literary Studies: Selected Works of Modern Literature
• Traditional Theater in Japan: Forms, Themes, Performance Practice
• A Cultural History of the Genji monogatari (Method Seminar: Intertextuality, Intermediality, Reception Theory, Gender)
• Transcultural Literature: Itō Hiromi, Mizumura Minae, Tawada Yōko
• A Brief History of Translation in Japan (from the Nara Period to the Meiji Period)
• Conceptual History / History of Concepts
• AI-supported Applications in Japanese Studies Practice
• Online Seminar with Osaka University: 日本古典文学と名所 — Literary Sites in Japan’s Classical Literature (in Japanese, together with the Seminar for Premodern Japanese Literature and Theater Studies)

Source-Reading Courses in the M.A. Program:

• Travel Diaries of the Edo Period
• Translation Strategies in Historical Perspective
• Shakespeare Reception in Japan
• Literary Places in Japan (utamakura, meisho)

Premodern Text-Reading Courses