World Languages & Literatures
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2144/1253
Boston University’s Department of World Languages & Literatures (formerly Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures) is an intellectually vibrant and collegial community of scholars engaged in teaching and research about literature, film, and media culture in more than a dozen languages. Some of languages studied include Arabic, Chinese, German, Hebrew, Hindi-Urdu, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Russian, and Turkish.
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Department chair: Keith Vincent
Campus address: 745 Commonwealth Avenue
Phone: (617) 358-5032
Website: https://www.bu.edu/wll/
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On the Chinese character 演 (evolve)
(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2021-09-01) -
On the Chinese character 野 (wild)
(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2021-07-01) -
On the Chinese character 休 (rest)
(The Commercial Press, Beijing Chin, 2021-05-01) -
On the Chinese character 借 (borrow)
(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2021-03-01) -
On the Chinese character 通 (through)
(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2021-11-01) -
Better than sex? Masaoka Shiki's haiku on food
(Oxford University Press, 2018)This chapter analyzes the food passions of Meiji-era poet and inventor of the modern haiku Masaoka Shiki (1867–1902). Bedridden for his final five years, he continued to obsessively consume and write about choice morsels ... -
On the Chinese character 智 (wisdom)
(The Commercial Press, Beijing China, 2021-01-01) -
Engaging students online through an OER poetry project
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Shiki kaishi: April 2020, no. 166
(Matsuyama Shikikai松山子規会, 2020-04) -
Shiki kaishi: July 2019, no. 163
(Matsuyama Shikikai松山子規会, 2019-08)