MPhil (Master's) in East Asian Popular Culture Across Time, University of Cambridge

[Laura Moretti]

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

We are thrilled to announce the launch of an exciting, new 1-year MPhil (=Master's) in East Asian Popular Culture Across Time at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge. 

MPhil in East Asian Popular Culture Across Time | Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

This first-of-its-kind MPhil pioneers a new academic approach to popular culture by connecting the past, present and future. Students will develop skills in analysing key cultural products while considering how they are shaped by transmedial flows and other processes including translation, adaptation, top-down design, and grassroots creativity. 

Applications are now open for 2026-27. Find out more details about the course and the requirements at the link above.

Please help spread the word. 

With many thanks,

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 

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