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Dr James McMullen FBA

Oriental and African Studies East Asia Japan History of a specific country Japan
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
2001
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Website
https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/james-mcmullen#/

Current post

Emeritus Fellow, Pembroke and St Antony's Colleges, University of Oxford

Past appointments

Pembroke College University of Oxford Emeritus Fellow

2006 -

Pembroke College University of Oxford Fellow

1989 - 2006

St Antony's College University of Oxford Fellow

1972 - 1989

University of Oxford University Lecturer in Japanese, Oriental Institute

1972 - 2006

Publications

The worship of Confucius in Japan forthcoming

Rulers or fathers: a casuistical problem in early modern Japan Past and Present 1987

Genji Gaiden: the origins of Kumazawa Banzan's commentary on the Tale of Genji 1991

Idealism, protest and the Tale of Genji 1999

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Graham Furniss FBA

Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger

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Professor Irina Nikolaeva FBA

General linguistics; linguistic diversity and linguistic typology; language change; Uralic, Altaic and Palaeosiberian languages and linguistics; documentation and description of endangered languages

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Professor John Mack FBA

The anthropology and history of art and material culture, especially in equatorial Africa and the western Indian Ocean; comparative work on themes such as memory, miniaturisation, and the experience of the environment

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