Professor Peter Kornicki FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2000
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Summary
Peter Kornicki retired in 2014 as Professor of Japanese after 30 years at the University of Cambridge. Most of his work has been on the cultural history of Japan, but since 2005 he has also been working on Korea and Vietnam and in 2018 completed a major study of the impact of Chinese textual culture on East Asia. Also in 2018 he published in Japanese a study of the export of Japanese books to Europe up to the 19th century. He was awarded the Japan Foundation Special Prize in 1992 and the Yamagata Banto Prize in 2013, and in 2017 was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Neck Ribbon by the Emperor of Japan. He is an elected member of the Accademia Ambrosiana, Milan, and Academia Europaea. He was President of the European Association for Japanese Studies in 1997-2000. Currently he is editor in chief of the journal East Asian Publishing and Society and is leader of a research group at the National Institute for Japanese Literature. He continues his research and lecturing activities relating to Japan and East Asia.
Current post
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies
2014 -
University of Cambridge Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
2007 -
University of Cambridge Professor of Japanese Studies, University of Cambridge
2002 - 2014
University of Cambridge Reader, Professor in Japanese History and Bibliography
1995 -
Robinson College University of Cambridge Fellow
1986 -
Robinson College University of Cambridge Fellow
1986 -
University of Cambridge University Lecturer
1985 - 1995
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Eleanor Robson FBA
History of literacy, numeracy and knowledge in ancient Middle Eastern cuneiform cultures; history and politics of archaeology and heritage in modern Iraq; open-access digital humanities approaches to cuneiform
Professor Jean-Pierre Mahé FBA
Languages & civilisations of the Christian Near East (Armenian, Caucasian, Albanian, Coptic, Georgian); epigraphy. palaeography; Armenian history;
Professor David Arnold FBA
Modern History; History of South Asia, History of Science; History of Medicine; Social History
