John Timothy Wixted

Chinese and Japanese Languages and Literatures

John Timothy Wixted



Two C.V.’s follow below:
An abridged one and a full (11-pp.) one

 

John Timothy Wixted
aka: Tim Wixted, J.T. Wixted, J. Timothy Wixted, John T. Wixted
魏世德 , ジョン・ティモシー・ウィックステード
e-mail: JohnTimothyWixted@gmail.com


DEGREES:

D.Phil., Oxford University, 1977; M.A., Stanford University, 1966; B.A. (Hons.), University of Toronto, 1965

 

POSITIONS:
         Simultaneously now:
         (1) Emeritus Professor of Asian Languages: Chinese and Japanese Languages and Literatures, Arizona State Uni­ver­sity, 2004-.
         (2) Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2005-.
         (3) Affiliate, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2013-.
         (4) Visiting Scholar, University of Notre Dame, 2012-.
         Prior appointments: Professor (Assistant to Full), Arizona State University, 1978-2003. Visiting Research Scholar, Univer­sity of Tokyo, 1999-2000. Exchange Professor, Hiro­shima Shudo University, 1991. Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 1977-78. Temporary Lecturer, Oxford University, 1970.
         Additionally: Associate, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago, 2004-24. Acting Director, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1988. President, American Oriental Society, Western Branch, 1983-85. 


PUBLICATIONS:
         Six Books:
         (1) The Poetry of Yuan Haowen: Introduced, Interpreted, Explicated [元好問的詩] (The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2025). xxi,515 pp. 150 poems treated.
         (2) Poems on Poetry: Literary Criticism by Yuan Haowen (1190-1257) [元好問的文學批評] (1982; rev ed. Melbourne and Basel: Quirin Press, 2019). xxxi,410,1 pp. 42 poems on poetry treated.
         (3) A Handbook to Classical Japanese / 文語ハンドブック (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell East Asia Series, 2006), xiv,360 pp.      120 pages of introductory material, treatment of 32 verb-suffixes, 8 appendices, and index.

         (4) Japanese Scholars of China: A Bibliographical Handbook / 日本の中国学専門家ハンドブック (Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1992), xlii,474 pp. 1,500+ Japanese China scholars treated.
         (5) Translation of Yoshikawa Kōjirō 吉川幸次郎, Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650: The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties [Original title, 元明詩概説] (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), xix,215 pp. Text (in modern Japanese) and 130 complete poems (in classical Chinese) translated.
         (6) The Song-Poetry of Wei Chuang (836-910 A.D.) [韋莊之詞] (Tempe: Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 1979; rpt. 1991), Calligraphy by Eugenia Y. Tu, iii,144 pp. 48 ci 詞 poems treated.

         Additionally:
         Articles in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Japonica Humboldtiana, Bulletin of Sung-Yüan Studies, Renditions, Tamkang Review, Contrastes (Paris/Nice), Tokonoma (Buenos Aires), Stone Lion (Harvard University), and others.
         Article-length translations from Japanese and Chinese.
         Edited Books: editor of 8 volumes (and co-editor of 2): Monograph Series, Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University.


RESEARCH INTERESTS:
         Traditional Chinese poetry and poetics, Japanese language and literature, Sino-Japanese cultural relations, comparative literature, East Asian bibliography.

GRANTS:
         Five year-long research awards: National Endow­ment for the Humanities, 2000-2001; Japan Foundation, 1999-2000; Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Language and Research Fellowship, 1984-1985; National Endow­ment for the Humanities, 1982-1983; National Endow­ment for the Humanities, 1981-1982.
         Other awards: 1 semester-long grant, 4 summer grants, 21 travel awards, 6 miscellaneous grants.


READING COMPETENCE:

Chinese (classical & modern), Japanese (classical & modern)
German, French, Spanish, and Latin. 


FULL C.V.:

Wixted full (11-pp.) C.V.


John Timothy Wixted

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