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 Richard
Rubinger
Professor, EALC
Adjunct Professor, History
Adjunct Professor, Education
PhD, Columbia University, 1979
rubinge@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall 345
(812) 855-4407
Research Interests
- Tokugawa and Meiji Japan
- Western science in 19th century Japan
- Education and literacy
Courses Recently Taught
- Third- and Fourth-Year Japanese
- EALC E354, Society and Education in Japan
- EALC J511, Research Methods in Japanese Studies
- EALC J541, Readings in Japanese Historical Texts
Awards and Distinctions
- Research fellow at Nichibunken in Kyoto (2000-2001)
- Research fellow, Jimbun at Kyoto University (1994-95).
- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Grant
- Japan Foundation fellowships for research in Japan.
Publication Highlights
- Popular Literacy in Early Modern Japan,
University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
- "Who Can't Read or Write: Illiteracy in Meiji Japan," Monumenta
Nipponica, Summer 2000.
- Reader's Guide to Intermediate Japanese: A Quick Reference to
Written Expressions, with Yasuko Ito Watt, 1998.
- Proliferating Talent:Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education
in the Meiji Era, translation of writings of Motoyama Yukihiko,
edited with Jurgis Elisonas, 1997.
- Private Academies of Tokugawa Japan, Princeton University
Press, 1982.
My training and research interests straddle traditional disciplines and
academic designations. I was trained in both Japanese history and comparative
education, and have taught Japanese since early in my career. My main
academic focus has been the history of Japanese education during the Tokugawa
and Meiji periods (roughly from the early seventeenth to the beginning
of the twentieth century). My current work on the history of literacy
in Japan has forced me out of an earlier, and quite narrow, institutional
interest, toward looking at culture and learning in Japanese society in
very broad terms. Reading the extensive literature on literacy in Europe
and the U.S. has provided theoretical perspective and given me a far more
solid comparative base for understanding Japanese society than I eve had
before. I am currently working on a book on the subject of literacy in
Japanese history. |
