Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

PhD Columbia (2000), MPhil Columbia (1996), MA Columbia (1994)

BIOGRAPHY

My area of specialization is in the language, literature, and cultural history of Japan prior to contact with the West, with related interests in gender, poetics, narratology, ritual practices, comparative historiography, and myth.  At the University of Virginia I regularly teach courses such as JPTR 3010 (Survey of Japanese Literature) and JAPN 4710 (Introduction to Literary Japanese), as well as seminars on more specialized topics such as Japanese myth, the Tale of Genji, Japanese court women's literature, and medieval warrior tales.

SPECIALIZATIONS

Early and medieval Japanese literature and culture

BOOKS

Navigating Narratives                                                                                                                                  
Tsurayuki’s Tosa
Diary as History and Fiction
Harvard Asia Center (2024)

China and Beyond in the Mediaeval Period: Cultural Crossings and Inter-Regional Connections 
by Dorothy C. Wong and Gustav Heldt 
Cambriapress (2014)                                                                                                           

The Kojiki
An Account of Ancient Matters
Columbia University Press
August, 2014

The Pursuit of Harmony
Poetry and Power in Early Heian Japan
Cornell East Asia Series
February, 2009