[Ryan Hintzman]

Saturday, 9 January 10:15AM-11:30AM EST (Session #382)

Scholars at various career stages from the United States, Europe, and Japan think together with the audience about strategies for ensuring the vitality of pre-1900 Japanese literary studies given the field’s distinctive history and configuration and the challenges of teaching and conducting research in current conditions, emphasizing specific projects that have or seem likely to succeed in building optimal affiliations across the humanities.

Presider: Ivo Smits (Leiden University)

Marjorie Burge (University of Colorado, Boulder): on early Japanese literature, beyond early Japan and beyond literature

Naomi Fukumori (The Ohio State University): on historicizing feminist and gender-based approaches to Heian- and Kamakura-period literature

Thomas Gaubatz (Northwestern University): on possible modes of dialog between literary and historical scholarship on early modern Japan

Edoardo Gerlini (U Ca’ Foscari Venezia): on rethinking premodern Japanese literature as cultural heritage 

Ryan Hintzman (Yale University): on reading waka and reading lyric

Mariko Naito (Meiji University): on a framework to analyze the way waka poetics authorizes literary works

Riley Soles (Yale University): on Earl Miner’s critical and comparative legacy

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