Satoru Hashimoto

Satoru Hashimoto is an Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University (Krieger School of Arts & Sciences). His research focuses on Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literatures and cultures, modernities/modernisms, comparative literature, aesthetics, intellectual history, aesthetics and justice, post-secularism, and world literature.

He previously served as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures) and was a Junior Fellow at the University of Chicago Society of Fellows (2014-15). He earned a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, and a BA/MA in French Literature from the University of Tokyo.

His first monograph, Afterlives of Letters (Columbia 2023), explores transnational origins of modern East Asian literatures. He has published in multiple languages on East Asian and European literary traditions and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of World Literature.