Research Interests:
Keller Kimbrough’s research interests include the literature and art of late-Heian, medieval, and early Edo-period Japan. Kimbrough has been particularly interested in medieval poetry and poetics, illustrated Buddhist fiction (otogizōshi), illustrated temple and shrine histories (jisha engi), eighteenth-century children’s literature, and, more recently, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century kōwakamai samurai tales, seventeenth-century kanazōshi prose fiction, and the early seventeenth-century puppet theater.