University of Cambridge virtual Open Day for MPhil programme

[Laura Moretti]

Dear Colleagues, 

I would be most grateful if you could share with your undergraduate students and/or your peers information about our upcoming virtual Open Day, which presents the various MPhil pathways that are available at the University of Cambridge. 

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We are pleased to be holding an MPhil online Open Day on Thursday 17 September 2026. This will be a chance for prospective students to learn more about the MPhil pathways we offer in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

 

There will be two sessions, one for East Asian Studies from 12.00-13.30 UK time(link to register HERE) and one on Middle Eastern Studies from 17.00-18.30 UK time (link to register HERE).

 

There is also information at the following link: https://www.ames.cam.ac.uk/events/mphil-online-open-day

For an overview of our postgraduate programmes (MPhil and PhD) please visit our website:

Postgraduate study | Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

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Thank you for helping with sharing the information with your students or peers. 

Best wishes,

Laura Moretti

 *While it suits me to email outside normal working hours, I do not expect a response outside your working hours.*

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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 

Graphic 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