Keller Kimbrough

Affiliated Faculty are not employees of the Center for Asian Studies. Please contact this faculty member at their home department.

Education

Ph.D., Yale University, 1999
M.A., Columbia University, 1993
B.A., Colorado College, 1990

Research Interests

Premodern Japanese Literature; Japanese Buddhist Literature; Heian and Medieval Poetry and Poetics; Japanese Narrative Painting; 17th Century Puppet Theater

Regional and Thematic Interests

East Asia
Literature and the Arts

Selected Publications

2015. “Bloody Hell! Reading Boys’ Books in Seventeenth Century Japan.” Asian Ethnology 74, no. 1: 111-139.

2015. “Tengu no hanashi: Tengu no dairi ni okeru rokudō annai,” in Kai’i, yōkai bunka no dentō to sōzō: uchi to soto no shiten kara (Nichibunken conference proceedings), ed. Komatsu Kazuhiko (Kyoto: Nichibunken): 85-90.

Fall 2012. "Battling Tengu, Battling Conceit: Visualizing Abstraction in The Tale of the Handcart Priest," Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 39, no. 2: 275-305.