Wiebke Denecke (魏樸和) is Professor of Chinese, Japanese and Korean Literatures & Philosophies and holds the S. C. Fang Chair of Chinese Language and Culture at MIT. She studies the literary and philosophical traditions of China, Japan and Korea, comparative studies of East Asia and the premodern world, world literature, the politics of cultural heritage and memory and promotes the transformation of the Humanities in an age of STEM and business. Denecke is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature, which features smartly scholarly and eminently readable bilingual translations of East Asia’s literary heritage. In 2021 she founded the MIT Global Humanities Initiative (GHI), a research incubator that supports learning from millennia of human experience on our planet to work towards a shared future in challenging times. At GHI she currently develops visions for the University of the Future based on STEMAH (STEM & Arts & Humanities)-inspired research and curricula that put knowledge in action for social renewal and planetary stewardship.