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“There and Back Again: Abductions into Purgatory in Premodern Japan and China,” in Bungaku kenkyūka kiyō 文学研究科紀要 65 (March 2020), pp. 679-705.
“Preface to Poetry: Metaphorical Spaced in Fusō kobunshū,” in Waseda daigaku sōgō jinbun kagaku kenkyū sentā 早稲田大学総合人文科学研究センター (WASEDA RILAS JOURNAL), 7 (October 2019), pp. 259-275.
“Saga Woos the Court: Vernacular Poetry, Powerful Women, and Romantic Verses,” in Chūō daigaku bungakubu kiyō 中央大学文学部紀要, 274 (March 2019), pp. 1-34.
“Kankoji kara wakoji e: Honchō mōgyū ni mieru shika no bungakukan” 漢故事から和故事へ―『本朝蒙求』に見える詩歌の文学観, in Ajia yūgaku アジア遊学, 223: Nihonjin to chūgoku koji 日本人と中国故事 (Benseisha 勉誠社, 2018), pp. 246-257.
Kristopher Reeves received his PhD (2018) in Japanese Literature from Columbia University (New York). After working as an Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at the National Institute of Japanese Literature (Tokyo) from 2016 to 2018, he joined Waseda University. His primary areas of interest are Heian-period Sinitic poetry ( kanshi ), as well as comparative literature within the broader East Asian cultural sphere.
Dr. Reeves strives to provide students with opportunities to explore Japanese culture, literature, intellectual history (philosopher and religion), mythology, and other related topics, in the context of both the premodern as well as the modern world. His students are encouraged to approach their sources from a comparative perspective.