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Donald Lawrence Keene (June 18, 1922 – February 24, 2019) was an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature. [1] [2] Keene was University Professor emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, where he taught for over fifty years.
Donald Keene, University Professor Emeritus and Shinchō Professor Emeritus of Columbia University, died in Tokyo on February 24, 2019. He was 96. Professor Keene played the leading role in the establishment of Japanese literary studies in the United States and beyond.
Feb 24, 2019 · Donald Keene, whose translations of Japanese literature into English and prodigious academic output helped define the study of the subject and made him a celebrity in Japan, died on Sunday in...
Feb 21, 2019 · Almost 80 years have passed since Donald Keene first happened on a copy of The Tale of Genji in a New York bookstore, sparking off a remarkable career as a translator and scholar of Japanese ...
He began teaching at Columbia University in 1955, and was named Columbia University Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in 1981 and University Professor in 1989; he is currently a University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus.
Celebrated academic and translator Donald Keene died of heart failure on February 24th in Tokyo. He was 96. Keene, one of the foremost Western scholars of Japanese literature, often likened his...
When Fred Katayama ’82CC, ’83JRN returned to New York in 1994 after working for five years as a reporter in Japan, he called his old professor Donald Keene ’42CC, ’49GSAS, ’97HON and asked him to dinner for Keene’s birthday.
