Evelyn Schulz

Evelyn Schulz (* 1963 in Heidelberg ) is a German Japanologist and professor at the Japan Center of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Her research and teaching focus is on the literature and culture of modern Japan.

Life

Schulz was born in Heidelberg in 1963. From 1984 to 1992 she studied Japanese Studies, Sinology and Medieval and Modern History at the University of Heidelberg . Schulz received his doctorate in 1995 with a thesis on the criticism of modernity by the writer Nagai Kafū at the University of Heidelberg. From 1995 to 2002 she was assistant or senior assistant at the East Asian Department, Japanese Studies at the  University of Zurich . Schulz qualified as a professor in 2001 with a study of city ​​discourses in the "Notes on the Prospering of Tōkyō " (Tōkyō hanjō ki): A genre of topographical literature of Japan and its images of Tōkyō (1832-1958) and received the license to teach the subject Japanese Studies at the University of Zurich. She spent several years studying and researching in Japan, and in 1999 she was appointed visiting professor for literary and cultural studies at the University of Kobe Gakuin Daigaku, Kobe. She has been Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Munich since 2002.

Research priorities and activities

In addition to the literature and culture of modern Japan, the focus of research and teaching is on cultural and literary urban research, particularly on Tokyo, including current global debates and discourses in architecture and urban planning. In recent years she has dealt with the revitalization of small-scale neighborhoods in Tokyo and the associated ideas of (large) urban life. A special concern is the question of the effects of and the examination of modernization and globalization processes and their theories in Japan. Most recently, she has been working on cultural-literary exchange relationships and their global interdependencies, as well as deceleration phenomena and discourses in contemporary Japanese society.

Fonts

Monographs and editorships (selection)

• City discourses in the "Notes on the Prospering of Tōkyō" (Tōkyō hanjō ki): A genre of topographical literature of Japan and its images of Tōkyō (1832-1958), Munich: iudicium, 2004.
• Nagai Kafū: “Diary of a Homecoming” (1909): The design of aesthetic alternative worlds as a critique of the modernization of Japan, Münster: Lit-Verlag (East Asia - Pacific: Trier Studies on Politics, Economy, Society, Culture; Vol. 9), 1997 .
• with Barbara E. Thornbury: Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018.
• with Lisette Gebhardt : New Concepts in Japanese Literature? National literature, the literary canon and literary theory. Papers of the 15th German-speaking Japanologentag: Literatur II, Berlin: EB Verlag, 2014.
• with Christoph Brumann: Urban Spaces in Japan. Cultural and Social Perspectives, London et al .: Routledge, 2012.
• with Okano Hiroshi: Creating Cities: Culture, Space, and Sustainability (URP GCOE [Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University, Global Center of Excellence "Recreating the Cities of the 21st Century through Cultural Creativity and Social Inclusion"] Document 11), 2012 .

Book and magazine articles (selection)

• 『日本 は ス ロ ー な 社会 と な る の か 現代 日本 社会 の 諸 現象 と 議論』 [Is Japan Becoming a Slow Society? Phenomena and Discourses in Contemporary Japan], translated by Itō Tōru, 『社 芸 堂』 = Journal of Social Aesthetics (Kyōto), Vol. 6, 2017, pp. 121-131.
• "Chernobyl and Fukushima: From the Failure of Socialism to a Menetekel for Japan", Eastern Europe, Vol. 65, 5-6 / 2015, pp. 207-227.
• “Beyond the Modern”, Hildner, Claudia (ed.), Future Living: Community Living in Japan, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2013, 11–26. // English edition: “Beyond Modernism”, Hildner, Claudia (ed.), Future Living: Collective Housing in Japan, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2013, 11–26.

Complete list of publications

• List of publications

Web links

• Evelyn Schulz, Japan Center LMU Munich
• Lecture by Prof. Dr. Evelyn Schulz: “Japan as a society to slow down? Phenomena and discourses in contemporary Japanese society from cultural and literary perspectives "(German Society for Natural and Ethnographic East Asia. (OAG), Tokyo, May 20, 2015)

Individual evidence

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