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Frederick
Kavanagh
Frederick
Kavanagh, Associate Professor of Japanese,
Foreign Language Department
Professor
Kavanagh developed an early interest in foreign languages and
cultures that led him to the formal study of French (B.A., Middlebury
College), Russian (M.A., University of Virginia) and Japanese
(Ph.D., University of Hawaii). Having worked as a printer, book
editor, and Russian-English intelligence translator, he now
devotes his full-time effort to teaching and scholarship at
Valparaiso University. Professor Kavanagh has produced many
fine translations from classical Japanese and Russian, and a
recent translation appeared in Monumenta Nipponica. He
also is completing his translation of the Shinkokinshu,
an anthology of 2,000 Japanese poems (tanka) compiled
at imperial command in 1205. On the VU faculty since 1987, Professor
Kavanagh teaches three years of Japanese language, as well as
courses in Japanese literature, pre-modern Japanese poetry,
and Kana calligraphy. He is the head of Japanese language studies
in the East Asian section of the Department of Foreign Languages.
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