Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit#
| Membership Number: | 1652 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/oas/japanologie/institut/mitarbeiter/professoren/kirschnereit/index.html |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 2016 Senior Professor, FU Berlin
- 2010 - 2015 Director, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, FU Berlin
- 1996 - 2004 Director, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo
- Since 1991 Professor (Chair) of Japanese Studies (Literature and Cultural Studies), FU
- 1986 - 1991 Professor (Chair) for Contemporary Japanese Studies, Trier University
- 1985 - 1986 Associate Professor for Japanese Literature, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo
Fields of Scholarship
- Genre theory
- Modern and contemporary literature and culture of Japan in its traditional and intercultural relations
- Sociology of language
- World literature
- Comparative Literature
- Autobiography and autofiction
- Lexicography
- History of Japan-related scholarship
- Discourses of cultural/national uniqueness
- Food and hospitality studies
- Translation Studies
Honours and Awards
- 2024 Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse (Federal Order of Merit, First Class), Bundesrepublik Deutschland
- 2022 Prof. Hijiya-Kirchnereit's translation from the Japanese of the novel “Dornauszieher” (Togenuki) by Japanese poet and writer Hiromi Itō, publ. 2021 with Matthes & Seitz, Berlin, was shortlisted for the Prize of the Leipzig Bookfair 2022 in the translation category and on the shortlist for the LiBeratur Prize 2022
- 2021 48th Japan-Foundation-Prize, Japan
- 2014 NIHU Prize in Japanese Studies, National Institutes for the Humanities, Japan
- 2014 NIHU (National Institutes for the Humanities) Prize in Japanese Studies (Japan)
- 2014 Academic Prize for Culinary Studies (Wissenschaftspreis Kulinaristik)
- 2013 Member of Leopoldina, the National Academy of Sciences (Halle)
- 2011 Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon
- 2001 Eugen and Ilse Seibold Prize of the DFG
- 1995 Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (Cross of Merit on a Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany)
- 1995 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1993 Founding Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Berlin)
- 1992 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of DFG
- Member of Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences
- 1985 apl. Professor, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 1980 - 1985 Heisenberg scholarship of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
