Dennis Washburn (born July 30, 1954) is an
American academic and translator. He's the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies at
Dartmouth College where he has taught since 1992.[1][2] 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,[3] and in 2008 he received the
Japan-US Friendship Commission Translation Prize for translating
Tsutomu Mizukami's The Temple of the Wild Geese and Bamboo Dolls of Echizen.[4]
Education
Harvard University: BA (June, 1976) – While at Harvard University, Dennis studied with some notable figures in American literature, such as
Elizabeth Bishop.