Received Sylff fellowship in 2019, 2020, 2021
Academic supervisor: Hiraishi Noriko
Current affiliation: Graduate School of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Alonso Belaúnde Degregori (Peru, 1991) holds a Master's degree in Asian and African Studies with a major in Japanese Studies from El Colegio de México, where he was a Sylff Fellow during the period 2019-2021. He studied Humanities with a major in Theoretical and Critical Studies in Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), where he works as lecturer and researcher at the Center for Oriental Studies (CEO-PUCP), in charge of Japanese literature seminars. He also coordinates various academic activities related to Japanese Studies since 2022: the Center for Oriental Studies' winning projects of the Grant Program for Japanese Studies Project, funded by
Japan Foundation, and the Japanese Studies International Week. He is also a member of the Research Group José León Herrera/Asian Studies of Peru (JLH/EAP) of this center, and a member of the Latin American Association of Asian and African Studies, Peru section (ALADAA Peru), in which he was Secretary for the period 2018-2022. He is co-founder and professor of writing workshops in the teaching project Escuela de Haiku Retama, focused on haiku creation workshops, through which he has co-edited three haiku anthologies. He has also published the poetry books Río Javier Prado (2016), Temporada de lúcumas (2016) and El circuito de la ensenada (2019). Recently, he has been chosen as a Japanese Government MEXT Research Student and will begin his research student period at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in April 2025. His research is focused in the self-portrait in the haiku poetics of Masaoka Shiki.
Academic Achievements, Social Engagement Initiatives
2025-Present: Japanese Government MEXT Scholarship for Research Students. Graduate School of Business Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba.
2024: Master's Degree with dissertation "Subjectivity in Taneda Santōka's haiku poetics". Advisor: Satomi Miura. Master’s in Asian and African Studies with a major in Japanese Studies (El Colegio de México, Mexico).
2022-Present: Lecturer, researcher and coordinator of the Center for Oriental Studies, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Professor of Japanese Literature seminars and coordinator of academic projects regarding Japanese Studies.
2022-Present: Founder, co-director and professor of the haiku school "Retama. Escuela de Haiku" centered in Lima, Perú. Co-editor of haiku anthologies, product of poetry workshops organized by this school.
2019-2021: Master’s in Asian and African Studies with a major in Japanese Studies (El Colegio de México, Mexico).
2019-2021: Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (Sylff), Fellowship for Master’s Degree studies for the period 2019-2021.
2018: Secretary to the Peru Section of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios de Asia y África (ALADAA-Perú) for the period 2018-2022.
2018: Professional Degree with dissertation "Haiku in the poetry of Javier Sologuren and Alfonso Cisneros Cox". Advisor: Ricardo Sumalavia. BA in Humanities with a major in Theoretical and Critical Studies (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru).
2016: Support for the Development of Undergraduate Theses Program (PADET) Award. Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
2016: Bachelor in Humanities with a major in Theoretical and Critical Studies (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru).
2015: Secretary of Defense of the Federated Center of Students of the School of Liberal Arts and Humanities of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru for the period 2015-2016.
2014: Volunteer in the not-for-profit
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