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, Adjunct Researcher, Center for Japanese Studies
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Heian vernacular prose fiction, especially textual criticism of Genji monogatari and narratology in early Heian fiction; late Heian social history: portrait of a middle-ranking courtier, Fujiwara no Tamefusa, and his family, based on kanbun and kana documents
- Ph.D., Japanese Literature, University of Michigan, 1977
- Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, Italy, 1995, 2000, 2001
- Visiting Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Japan, 1998-99
- Japan Foundation Professional Fellowship, 1986
- Phi Beta Kappa, 1969
- "Heian bungaku no shorai" ["The Future of Heian Literature"] in Ii Haruki, ed., Kokusaika no naka no Nihon bungaku kenkyu [Japanese Literature Studies in an International Context], Osaka Daigaku Kokugo Kokubun Gakkai, 2002, pp. 73-82.
- "Monogatari as Mirror: The Outsider in Genji monogatari and Heian Society," Asiatica Venetiana. Vol. 4, 1999.
- "Fact, Fiction and Heian Literary Prose: Epistolary Narration in Tonomine Shosho monogatari," Monumenta Nipponica. Vol. 53:2, 1998.
- Ed. with Anthony Hood Chambers) New Leaves: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Edward Seidensticker. Center for Japanese Studies (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies 11), 1993.
- (Trans.) A History of Japanese Literature, by Jin'ichi Konishi, vols. 1-3. Princeton University Press, 1986, 1986, 1991.
- "The Order of the Early Chapters in the Genji monogatari," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. Vol. 41:1, 1981.
- "A Wisp of Smoke: Scent and Character in The Tale of Genji," Monumenta Nipponica. Vol. 32:1, 1977.
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