Dean Brink 包德樂

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Gender	Male
Industry	Education
Occupation	Professor, Literature and Thought
Location	Hsinchu, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Introduction	Dean Brink (包德樂) is professor in the Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. He earned his PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and his masters in comparative literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. His current research interests include the Kyoto School as well as experimental aesthetics and posthumanism in contemporary poet-performance artists in North America and Taiwan. His recent book is Japanese Poetry and Its Publics: From Colonial Taiwan to Fukushima (Routledge, 2018) and is completing two book projects: Philosophy of Science and The Kyoto School: An Introduction to Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime and Tosaka Jun. (Bloomsbury); and Poetics and Justice in America, Japan, and Taiwan: Configuring Change and Entitlement (Lexington Books, An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield).
Interests	Japanese intellectual history and philosophy, philosophy of science, poetry (primarily in Japanese, English, and languages used in Taiwan), cultural studies, piano (composition), social justice, and most of all my family.