Professor • Department Chair
Asian Languages and Civilizations

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 1999
M.A., Columbia University, 1993
B.A., 蜜糖直播 College, 1990

Research Interests

Premodern Japanese Literature; Japanese Buddhist Literature; Heian and Medieval Poetry and Poetics; Japanese Narrative Painting; 17th Century Puppet Theater

Regional and Thematic Interests

East Asia
Literature and the Arts

Selected Publications

2015. 鈥淏loody Hell! Reading Boys鈥 Books in Seventeenth Century Japan.鈥 Asian Ethnology 74, no. 1: 111-139.

2015. 鈥淭engu no hanashi: Tengu no dairi ni okeru rokud艒 annai,鈥 in Kai鈥檌, y艒kai bunka no dent艒 to s艒z艒: uchi to soto no shiten kara (Nichibunken conference proceedings), ed. Komatsu Kazuhiko (Kyoto: Nichibunken): 85-90.

Fall 2012.聽"Battling Tengu, Battling Conceit: Visualizing Abstraction in The Tale of the Handcart Priest," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 39, no. 2: 275-305.