Wiebke Denecke
Wiebke Denecke is the S. C. Fang Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, and Professor of East Asian Literatures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her expertise encompasses the literary and philosophical traditions of China, Japan and Korea, comparative studies of East Asia and the premodern world, world literature, the politics of cultural heritage and memory, and the transformation of the Humanities in an age of STEM. Denecke’s publications include The Dynamics of Masters Literature: Early Chinese Thought from Confucius to Han Feizi, Classical World Literatures: Sino-Japanese and Greco-Roman Comparisons, The Norton Anthology of World Literature, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature, The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature, a three-volume literary history of Japan from an East Asian perspective (Nihon “bun”gakushi. A New History of Japanese “Letterature”; in Japanese), and Shared Pasts for Shared Futures: Prototyping a Comparative Global Humanities (special issue of History of Humanities). Denecke is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature which features smartly scholarly and eminently readable bilingual translations of East Asia's literary, philosophical, and religious heritage. Denecke is Faculty Lead for the MIT Comparative Global Humanities Initiative, a world-wide research-and-action community based at MIT. It promotes the global transformation of the humanities based on millennia of human experience on our planet, and aims to equip students and future leaders with humanistic values and critical understanding of the world, and brings stakeholders from across academia, the public sector and society together to work towards a shared future in challenging times.
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