Dawn Lawson

East Asian Studies Librarian
New York University Libraries
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Email: dawn.lawson@nyu.edu

NYU East Asian Studies Research Guide

My CV


Most Recent Publication

Taking the Library to Users: Experimenting with Facebook as an Outreach Tool (Word document): This article appears as chapter 11 in Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries, ed. Laura B. Cohen, Chicago: ACRL, 2007. For the next two years, updates of all the initiatives described in the book will appear on the wiki associated with the book. I have published my first update there.

Selected Other Publications

Electronic version of the Essence of the Novel,” Nanette Twine’s translation of Tsubouchi Shōyō’s Shōsetsu shinzui. Available in the NYU faculty digital archive

“Suzuki, D.T.”; American National Biography Online Jan. 2001 Update.

“Nyro, Laura”; American National Biography Online June 2000 Update.

Translation of Hayashi Mariko, “Wine.” In New Japanese Voices: The Best Contemporary Fiction from Japan, ed. Helen Mitsios, 138-151. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.

Translation of Oshima Nagisa, Cinema, Censorship, and the State: The Writings of Nagisa Oshima. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.

Education
BA, East Asian Studies, Oberlin College
MA, Japanese Literature, Harvard University
MLS, Palmer School of Library and Information Science, Long Island University
PhD candidate, East Asian Studies, New York University

Memberships/Affiliations
American Library Association
Association of Asian Studies/Council on East Asian Libraries
Modern Language Association
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