Summer School in Early Modern Japanese Palaeography, Cambridge 2026: call for applications open
Laura Moretti
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Prof Laura Moretti BA, MA(Cantab), PhD
教授 ラウラ・モレッティ
Professor of Early Modern Japanese Literature and Culture
Head of Department and co-Chair of the Faculty
Department of East Asian Studies
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
University of Cambridge
Emmanuel College
Fellow & Director of Studies (AMES)
Recent publications
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Narratives from Early Modern Japan: The World of Kusazōshi (Brill,
2024), edited with Prof Satō Yukiko (The University of Tokyo).
Book
launch podcast (New Books Network)
Book
launch at the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation (video)
Pleasure in Profit. Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century
Japan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. Named a 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title; shortlisted for the 2021 DeLong Book History Prize.
"The Ise
monogatari in Eighteenth-Century Kibyōshi," 255–302.
In Joshua S. Mostow, Tokurō Yamamoto, and Kurtis Hanlon (eds.), An
Ise monogatari Reader (Brill, 2021).
Adaptation as a Strategy for Participation: The Chikusai Storyworld
in Early Modern Japanese Literature.
Japanese Language and Literature, 54/1 (March 2020): 67-113.
Recasting the Past: An Early Modern Tales of Ise for Children.
Leiden: Brill, 2016.
Other activities
Summer School
in Japanese Early-modern Palaeography
YouTube page Japanese Early Modern Palaeography