JNU organises a talk by Professor Bruce Fulton

Event From Date: 
Friday, 29 March 2019
Event End Date: 
Friday, 29 March 2019
Event Title: 
JNU organises a talk by Professor Bruce Fulton
Event Details: 
Jawaharlal Nehru University
 
cordially invites you to
 
Talk by a World Renowned Scholar
 
of Korean Literature
 
Speaker:
 
Professor, Bruce Fulton
 
Professor of Korean Literature & Literary Translation
Dept. of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
 
Title of the Talk:
 
“Pleasures of Korean Literature”
 
Time & Venue:
 
Friday, 29th March, 2019; 2 PM
Lecture Hall I, JNU Convention Centre
 
Supported by
Korea Foundation
 
 
About the Speaker
 
Professor Bruce Fulton is the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia. He is the co-translator, with JuChan Fulton, of numerous works of modern Korean fiction; co-editor, with Kwon Youngmin, of Modern Korean Fiction (Columbia University Press, 2005), editor of the Korea section of the Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature (2003); and general editor of the Modern Korean Fiction series published by the University of Hawai’i Press. He is the co-recipient of several translation awards and grants, including the first National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship for a Korean literary work, the Manhae Grand Prize in Literature, and the first residency awarded by the Banff (Canada) International Literary Translation Centre for the translation of a work from any Asian Language. His most recent translations, with Ju-Chan Fulton, are the graphic novel Moss by Yoon Taeho (serialized at the Huffington Post), The Human Jungle by Cho Chŏngnae (Chin Music Press), Sunset: A Ch’ae Manshik Reader (Columbia University Press), and Mina by Kim Sagwa (Two Lines Press).
 
Event File: 
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