Advisor: David Atherton

Crystal Cheng's research revolves around early modern Japanese theater, literature, and visual culture, with a particular focus on the portrayal of murders and suicides of female characters. Her work aims to explore how the trope of selfless, sacrificial...

Emily Wan received her B.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and spent one year as a Fulbright Fellow at Waseda University. Her research focuses on renga (Japanese medieval linked verse), a collaboratively, spontaneously, and orally composed...

Kassandra Diaz received her BA in Cognitive Neuroscience and Japanese Language & Culture, and her MA in Japanese from Washington University in St. Louis, where she focused on novelist Enchi Fumiko and her rebranding of folkloric tales of demonic women, or...