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About Dennis Washburn
- Dennis Washburn (born July 30, 1954) is the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies at Dartmouth College where he has taught since 1992.
- He has served as chair of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures and is currently chair of the Comparative Literature Program.
- Washburn has published extensively on Japanese literature and culture and is an active translator of both modern and classical Japanese fiction.
- In 2004 he received the Japanese Foreign Ministry's citation for contributions to cross-cultural understanding, and in 2008 he received the Japan-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize.
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