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Photo: Adam Kern Adam L. Kern
adamkern@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Japanese Literature
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~ealc

After spending over a year as a high school exchange student in Omiya City in Saitama, Japan, Professor Adam Kern obtained a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1987, an A.M. in Regional Studies—East Asia from Harvard in 1989 and a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations also from Harvard in 1997. A former postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Institute, he has conducted research at the University of Kyoto from 1989-91, the University of Tokyo in 1999, and the National Institute of Japanese Literature in 2000. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2001, he taught at the University of Washington for a couple years. His main intellectual interests in Japan revolve around its popular culture, visual culture, dramatic arts, and comic literature. His book, Manga from the Floating World-Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan, was published in 2006 by the Harvard University Asia Center.

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