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Jeremy Sather

Jeremy Sather, Assistant Professor

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Jeremy Sather, Assistant Professor

Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures
326 Major Williams Hall 
220 Stanger Street 
Blacksburg, VA 24061
 jsather@vt.edu

Jeremy Sather is an assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures. 

  • Ph.D. in Japanese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania
  • M.A. in Japanese Language and Literature, University of Pennsylvania
  • B.A. in Japanese Language and Literature, University of Montana

Articles

  • "A Critique by Any Other Name: Imagawa Ryoshun's Nan Taiheiki (Part 2)." Japan Review, vol. 31, winter 2017, pp. 25-40. Nichibunken Open Access, doi: 10.15055/00006836. 
  • "A Critique by Any Other Name: Imagawa Ryoshun's Nan Taiheiki (Part 1)." Japan Review, vol. 29, spring 2017, pp. 39-68. Nichibunken Open Access, doi: 10.15055/00006618. 
  • "Nanbokuch6 jidai no juy6sei to sekai bungaku toshite no Taiheiki. Taiheiki wo toraeru 3. Ed. Koakimoto Dan. Tokyo: Kasama shoin, 2016. 
  • "Rebel with a Cause: The (Im)Morality oflmagawa Ryoshun." Japan Review, vol. 28, winter 2015, pp. 47-66. Nichibunken Open Access, doi: 10.15055/00006020. 
  • "The Road to Gekokujo: The Kanno Joran in Taiheiki and the Myth of Ashikaga Authority." In Taiheiki wo toraeru 1. Ed. Koakimoto Dan. Tokyo: Kasama shoin, 2014.

Reviews

  • Blind review of"Sex Work and the Karmic Wheel: How Buddhism Influences Sex Work in China." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, fall 2018. 
  • Review of Master Takuan and His Writings on Immovable Wisdom and the Sword Taie, by Peter Haskel. Japan Review, vol. 27, winter 2014, pp. 256-58. Nichibunken Open Access, doi: 10.15055/00007162 
  • Blind review of monograph, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. Blind review of article, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, special issue on "De­colonizing Comparative Methodologies," winter 2014. 
  • Illinois Wesleyan University Competitive Junior Leave program, spring 2019
  • National Endowment for the Humanities  Summer Stipend Program, summer 2019 
  • NEH grant, spring 2019-fall 2020
  • Artistic and Scholarly Development grant, fall 2018 
  • Steelcase Active Leaming Center grant, spring 2017
  • ASIANetwork Distinguished Speaker's Fund (Dr. Constantine Vaporis), fall 2017
  • CETAL Team Teaching Course Development Grant, fall 2017. Curriculum Development Grant, fall 2017 
  • Curriculum Council Exemplary proposal (Japanese minor sequence)
  • Artistic and Scholarly Development grant, spring 2017. Curriculum Development Grant, fall 2016
  • ALLEX Foundation summer Japanese language program scholarship
  • Faculty Development Grant 
  • International Affairs Grant 
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship 
  • E. Dale Saunders Council on Buddhism prize, University of Pennsylvania, spring 2012
  • Monbukagakusho (MEXT) scholarship, fall 2010-spring 2012
  • Cecilia Segawa-Seigle Prize supporting travel to Japan, University of Pennsylvania, summer 2010
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship summer fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, summer 2007
  • Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-2010
  • Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, academic year 2005-2006

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