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Full Name
Thomas Walley
First Name
Glynne
Last Name
Walley
Affiliation
Faculty
Title
Associate Professor, Japanese Literature
Office
423 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Office Hours
Winter 2025: Tuesdays 4:00-6:00 pm
Departments
East Asian Languages
Folklore Program
School of Global Studies and Languages
Affiliated Departments
Asian Studies
Comics and Cartoon Studies
Translation Studies
Profile Section
Statement

Glynne Walley received an MA in Japanese Literature from Washington University in St. Louis in 2001 and a PhD in Japanese Literature from Harvard University in 2009.  His research interests involve popular literature and how it negotiates the requirements of industry and genre, the demands of a mass audience, and the aspirational pull of “serious” literature.  His main focus is popular fiction of the late Tokugawa period;  his book Good Dogs: Edification, Entertainment & Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi hakkenden (Cornell East Asia Series, 2017) is the first monograph-length study of Hakkenden, a landmark of premodern Japanese fiction. 

He is also working on a complete translation of Hakkenden.  The first volume, Part One - An Ill-Considered Jest, was published in summer 2021 by Cornell East Asia Series.  The second volume, Part Two - His Master's Blade, was published in early 2024.

Teaching interests focus on Japanese literature of the early modern (Edo or Tokugawa) period, but also include medieval literature, modern literature, visual culture, comics broadly defined (from medieval picture scrolls to contemporary manga), and translation studies.

Websites:  

Yōkai Senjafuda: explores the culture of Japanese ghosts and monsters through votive slips

Glynne Walley's J-lit site:  reviews of Akutagawa Prize-winning novels from 2000 to the present, plus other miscellaneous semi-scholarly essays

 

Teaching

2024-2025

JPN 250 Manga Millennium

JPN 305 Intro to Japanese Lit I

JPN 4/510 Samurai Fiction

JPN 4/590 Translation and Japanese Literature

 

 

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