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Adam L. Kern is a scholar of Japanese popular literature and visual culture, especially manga, haiku, and kibyōshi. He has published several books and articles on these topics and appeared in a TV documentary on Japan's cultural foundations.
Symposium: Kibyoshi: The World's First Comicbook?
Adam L. Kern is a scholar of early modern and modern Japan, with research interests in popular literature, culture, poetry, theater, and visual culture. He is the author of several books on manga, kibyôshi, haiku, and the Heike, and has appeared on Wisconsin Public Radio and TV Ōsaka.
Adam L. Kern is author and editor of several books on Japanese literature, including The Penguin Book of Haiku (Penguin Classics, 2018). He studied Japanese literature at the University of Minnesota, the University of Kyoto, and Harvard University, where he earned a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages & Civilizations.
Kern is Professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Adam L. Kern became fascinated with Asian cultures when he found himself outside of Tokyo as a high school exchange. He went on to study East Asia at the University of Minnesota (B.A. summa) then …
The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished from the...
Adam L. Kern is a specialist in Japanese literature, visual culture, and popular culture, especially manga and haiku. He is the author of several books, including "The Penguin Book of Haiku" and "Manga from the Floating World", and has taught at Harvard University and the University of Tokyo.
