William Hedberg
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Mail code: 0202Campus: Tempe
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William C. Hedberg's primary research focus is the literature and culture of early modern Japan. He is the author of The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon (Columbia University Press, 2019) and the co-editor with Joshua Schlachet of Interdisciplinary Edo: Toward an Integrated Approach to the Study of Early Modern Japan (Routledge, 2024). Other research interests include Japanese Sinology, translation studies, and travel literature in early modern and modern East Asia. Hedberg's research has been published in the Journal of Japanese Studies, Japan Forum, East Asian Publishing and Society, and Sino-Japanese Studies, among other venues. His research and teaching have been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Social Science Research Council, and the Japan Foundation.
- Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University 2012
- B.A. East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Kansas 2005
Sino-Japanese literary and cultural relations (esp. early modern period)
Japanese Sinology
Travel literature
Translation studies
Premodern fiction criticism in East Asia
"Translation, Colonization, and the Fall of Utopia: The Qing Decline as Explained Through Chinese Fiction" Japanese Literature and Language, Vol. 54.1 (2020), pp. 115-135.
"Chinese Fiction as a 'Signal Bell of the Revolution' and the Transregional Birth of an Author" East Asian Publishing and Society, Vol. 9.2 (2019), pp. 125-150.
"Paradise Lost and Regained: The Passion of Chinese Studies in Meiji-Period Japan" Sino-Japanese Studies, Vol. 26 (2019), pp. 1-30
“Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Uncanny Travels in Republican-Era China” Japan Forum 29.2 (June 2017), pp. 236-256.
“Separating the Word and the Way: Suyama Nantō’s Chūgi Suikodenkai and Edo-Period Vernacular Philology” The Journal of Japanese Studies 41.2 (2015), pp. 343-367.
“Reclaiming the Margins: Seita Tansō’s Suikoden hihyōkai and the Poetics of Cross-Cultural Influence” International Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 12.2 (2015), pp. 193-215.
“The Chinese Afterlives of Coxinga and the Forty-Seven Faithful Rōnin of Akō: Japanese Puppet Theatre and Cultural Encounter in Edo-Period Nagasaki” Sino-Japanese Studies, Vol. 20 (2013), pp. 34-65.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JPN 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
| JPN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| JPN 592 | Research |
| JPN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| JPN 599 | Thesis |
| SLC 493 | Honors Thesis |
| JPN 484 | Internship |
| JPN 333 | Japanese Civilization |
| JPN 485 | Japanese Lit & Art of Translat |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
| JPN 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| JPN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| JPN 592 | Research |
| JPN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| JPN 599 | Thesis |
| SLC 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| JPN 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| CHI 501 | East Asian Humanities |
| JPN 501 | East Asian Humanities |
| JPN 333 | Japanese Civilization |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JPN 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
| JPN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| JPN 592 | Research |
| JPN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| JPN 599 | Thesis |
| JPN 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| JPN 484 | Internship |
| SLC 421 | Japanese Lit in Translation |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| JPN 194 | Special Topics |
| SLC 194 | Special Topics |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SLC 421 | Japanese Lit in Translation |
| SLC 598 | Special Topics |
| JPN 333 | Japanese Civilization |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JPN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| JPN 592 | Research |
| JPN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| JPN 599 | Thesis |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JPN 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
| JPN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| JPN 592 | Research |
| JPN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| JPN 599 | Thesis |
| JPN 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| JPN 484 | Internship |
| JPN 586 | History of Japanology |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JPN 590 | Reading and Conference |
| JPN 592 | Research |
| JPN 484 | Internship |
| JPN 333 | Japanese Civilization |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JPN 492 | Honors Directed Study |
| JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
| JPN 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| JPN 484 | Internship |
| SLC 421 | Japanese Lit in Translation |
| JPN 485 | Japanese Lit & Art of Translat |
| JPN 585 | Adv Problems of Translation |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JPN 493 | Honors Thesis |
| JPN 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| JPN 595 | Continuing Registration |
| JPN 599 | Thesis |
| JPN 414 | Intro to Classical Japanese |
| JPN 484 | Internship |
| JPN 394 | Special Topics |
| SLC 394 | Special Topics |
| HST 590 | Reading and Conference |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| JPN 115 | Japanese Popular Culture |
| JPN 484 | Internship |