Position:
Associate Professor of Japanese; Fellow of The Queen's College
Faculty / College Address:
Oriental Institute / The Queen's College
Email:
jennifer.guest@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Early to medieval Japanese literature, particularly kanbun; the reception of Chinese texts and knowledge in Japan; literary primers and commentaries; comparative perspectives on literary education, manuscript culture, and the transmission of classical languages; literacy studies; gender and women's literature; humour and wordplay in premodern Japanese literature
Current Projects:
- a monograph examining Heian and medieval kanbun education (primers, commentaries, and their creative literary adaptations) with reference to questions of literacy, literary language, and cultural contact
- an article on two poetic adaptations of kanbun primers, Mōgyū waka and Hyakuei waka, and their implications for the interplay of written styles in early medieval Japan
Courses Taught:
- Classical Japanese
- Kanbun
- Classical Japanese literature (various subject and text options)
- participating lecturer in Premodern East Asia survey course
Recent Publications:
- “Shingafu ryakui to Tō Mōgyū – “Shin gafu” no setsuwateki sokumen (Condensed Meaning of the New Ballads and Tang Child`s Treasury: Anecdotal Aspects of Bai Juyi`s “New Ballads”)", in Kōno Kimiko and Wiebke Denecke eds., Nihon ni okeru "bun" to "bungaku" (Benseisha Press, 2013)
Translations:
- “Women Poets in Court Poetry Salons”, by Tabuchi Kumiko, in Haruo Shirane et.al.eds., Waka Opening Up to the World: Language, Community, and Gender (Benseisha Press, 2012)
