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, Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
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Classical Japanese language; pre-modern Japanese literature, particularly poetry, philosophy, religion, aesthetics, criticism and theory; gender, women's studies, patriarchy, and family; dissemination of ideologies and values; popular and high culture
- Ph.D., Japanese Literature, Harvard University, 1983
- MA, Japanese, University of California, Berkeley, 1973
- BA, English, University of the Philippines, 1966
- Faculty Research Grant for the Medieval Poetics, Buddhism, and Sasamegoto Translation Publication Projects, University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2003-2004
- Faculty Fellow, University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities, 1999-2000
- Career Development Fund for Women Faculty Award, Winter 1999
- Rackham Faculty Recognition Award, 1998
- Conference Funding Grants: Japan Foundation, Association for Asian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, 1997-1998
- Visiting Research Professor, Kokubungaku Kenkyu Shiryokan [National Institute for Japanese Literature Research], Tokyo, 1996-1997
- Small Scale Projects Grant for the Shinkei and Renga Project, University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research, 1990-1991
- Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University, 1986-1987
- "Nihon bungaku kenkyu shuseiron: sono senzaisei oyobi otoshi ana" [Revisionism in Japanese literary studies: its potentials and pitfalls], in Kokusaika no naka no Nihon bungaku kenkyu [Japanese Literary Studies in the Context of Internationalization], ed. Ii Haruki, pp. 57-68. Osaka University Japanese Language and Literature Association, 2002.
- The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father, eds. R. Copeland and E. Ramirez-Christensen, 'Introduction,' pp. 1-23; "Self Representation and the Patriarchy in the Heian Female Memoirs," pp. 49-88. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001.
- "The New Historicism and Japanese Literary Studies: Introduction." PMAJLS: Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Vol. 4. (Summer 1998), pp. v-xxiii.
- "Ikirarenakatta sei no otografu: 'Sarashina nikki' no monogatari e no yokubo'" ["An Autograph of the Unlived Life: The Desire for Fiction in the 'Sarashina Diary'"] in Eiji Sekine, ed., Uta no hibiki, monogatari no yokubo (Tokyo: Shinwasha, 1996, pp. 165-179).
- "Renga Discourse and the Dissemination of Classical Literature," in Florilegium Japonicum: Studies Presented to Olog G. Lidin on his 70th Birthday, ed. Bjarke Frellevig and Christian Morimoto Hermansen (Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1996), pp. 229-241.
- "Resisting Figures of Resistance," a review-article on R. Okada's Figures of Resistance: Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 55, No. 1, 1995, pp. 179-218.
- "Theory vs. Practice/East vs. West, a Commentary by Discussant," in Revisionism in Japanese Literary Studies, PMAJLS (Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies), Vol. 2 (Summer 1996), pp. 138-147.
- Heart's Flower: The Life and Poetry of Shinkei. Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 1994.
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