Presentation
I am an interdisciplinary scholar of ancient Japan with core interests in the literature and history of the Heian period (794–1185). So far, my work has primarily focused on the genre of the nikki, a bibliographical category encompassing all sorts of “dated records.” Tentatively titled Autobiography and the Culture of Archives in Heian Japan, the monograph that I am currently developing out of my award-winning dissertation seeks to uncover the intimate connection between self-writing and more mundane forms of record-keeping in the tenth and eleventh centuries. Long overlooked, this connection not only provides a convincing framework for understanding the emergence of autobiography at a time when this mode of writing was only marginally invested on the Continent and elsewhere in the world; it also sheds light on some poorly understood aspects of self-writing in the Heian period. Continuing this interdisciplinary ethos, a second book-length project aims to reconstruct Heian period’s distinctive experience of romance across literary genres, historical documents, and material culture.
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