Judit Árokay

Judit Árokay (* 1965 ) is a Hungarian Japanologist.

Life

From 1984 to 1990 she studied German , English and Japanese studies at the Eötvös Loránd University (June 1990: Master's examination in German and English at the Eötvös Loránd University). From 1990 to 1991 she completed a Japanese language course and a degree in Japanese literature at the University of Hiroshima with a scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Culture (Monbusho) and until 1994 she studied Japanese Studies, Sinology and German Studies at the University of Hamburg . Main focus of study: classical and medieval Japanese literature; Cultural theories about Japan, especially the cultural semiotic perspective. After completing her studies in April 1994 with the grade “very good” ( Master's thesis : translation of Shotetsu monogatari, a poetological text from the 15th century and commentary on it), she then worked on the dissertation “Classical Japanese women's poetry in the mirror of the Medieval Japanese Poetics ”, supervisor: Roland Schneider , funded by a two-year doctoral scholarship as part of the promotion of young scientists and artists at the University of Hamburg . After completing her doctorate in 1998 with the overall grade “summa cum laude”, she was a research assistant (C1) at the Department of Language and Culture of Japan at the University of Hamburg from April 1998 to September 2004 . From October 2004 to September 2007 she was a research associate (BAT IIa) at the Free University of Berlin , Japanology, department of literary and cultural studies and project work at the DFG research group "Self-testimonies in a transcultural perspective", in collaboration with the Friedrich Meinecke Institute for History , the Institute for Turkic and Japanese Studies. After her habilitation in June 2007 in the Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Free University of Berlin (title of the habilitation thesis: “The renewal of poetic language: Poetological and linguistic discourses of the late Edo period”), she has been teaching at the W3 professorship at Institute for Japanese Studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Fonts (selection)

• Shōtetsu. Thoughts on Poetry. A Japanese poetics from the 15th century . Munich 1999, ISBN 3-89129-326-7 .
• Poetics and Femininity. Japan's Classical Female Poets in Poetics from the 10th to 15th Centuries . Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-928463-70-5 .
• as editor with Verena Blechinger-Talcott and Hilaria Gössmann : Honoring Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit . Festschrift for the 60th birthday . Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-89129-960-9 .
• The Renewal of Poetic Language: Poetological and Language Theoretical Discourses of the Late Edo Period . Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-86205-249-3 .

Web links

• Prof. Dr. Judit Árokay