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.
2024-2025
JPN 250 Manga Millennium
JPN 305 Intro to Japanese Lit I
JPN 4/510 Ghosts and Monsters (Yokai)
JPN 4/580 Early Modern Comics
Some other courses I've taught:
JPN 306 Intro to Japanese Literature Part II (1600 to WWII)
JPN 4/510 Monkey Fun (noh and kyōgen theater)
JPN 399 Ghosts and Monsters
JPN 4/590 Translation and Japanese Literature
JPN 4/510 The Culture of Play in Early Modern Japan
JPN 307 Intro to Japanese Literature Part III (post-WWII to present)
JPN 399 Tale of the Heike
JPN 399 Early Modern Japan
JPN 399 Medieval Japan
JPN 4/507 Swordsmen and Gay Blades (Myth of the Samurai in Japanese Culture)
JPN 4/507 Haikai/haiku
JPN 4/510 (Global Scholars) Akazome Akiko (in Japanese)
JPN 4/510 (Global Scholars) Matayoshi Naoki (in Japanese)
JPN 4/510 single writer-focused courses on: Kyokutei Bakin, Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Ihara Saikaku, Yoshimoto Banana, Murakami Haruki
JPN 4/510 Traditional Theater
JPN 607 Rakugo
JPN 607 Translation and Japanese Culture