Adam L. Kern

Adam L. Kern (アダム•カーン) first lived in Japan as a high-school exchange student outside of Tokyo. He earned a BA in East Asian Studies from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where he was on the faculty for nearly a decade. Kern’s notable experiences in Japan include research affiliations with the University of Kyoto, the University of Tokyo, and the National Institute of Japanese Literature. He also did brief stints as a staff reporter for a large metropolitan Japanese-language newspaper (Kyoto Shimbun) and as an editorial intern in the comics (manga) division of a leading publisher (Kōdansha). His recent books include: the co-edited “A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750” (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2020); “Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan (Second Edition with a New Preface)” (Harvard University Asia Center, 2019); and “The Penguin Book of Haiku” (Penguin Classics, 2018). Kern is Professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. To view his faculty page, please visit: https://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/adam-l-kern