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Ben Van Overmeire Duke Kunshan University |
| Web Page: | http://benvanovermeire.wordpress.com |
| List Affiliations: | Review Editor for H-Buddhism |
| Interests: | Area Studies Asian History / Studies Chinese History / Studies Comparative Literature Cultural History / Studies East Asian History / Studies Japanese History / Studies Literature Religious Studies and Theology Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
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Bio: Ben Van Overmeire is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Duke Kunshan University. Currently, he is working on a book on how modern autobiographical narratives of Zen life incorporate koan, Zen riddles revolving around seemingly unsolvable questions such as “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” His work has appeared in Religions, Japan Studies Review, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Buddhist-Christian Studies, among other journals. Van Overmeire has presented his work at the annual conferences of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the Modern Languages Association (MLA), the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA). He is a steering member of the Buddhist Pedagogy seminar at AAR, blogs on benvanovermeire.com and tweets @Zenmirrors. |
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