Charo B. D'Etcheverry
Ph.D. Princeton University
Professor D’Etcheverry has published
several pieces on The Tale of Sagoromo
and other late Heian fiction,
including a recent article in Monumenta Nipponica
(Summer 2004). A short
translation from Sagoromo appears in Early Japanese Literature, An
Anthology: Beginnings to 1600 (Columbia University Press, Spring 2006),
and a book manuscript, Love After The Tale of Genji:
Rewriting the World of the Shining
Prince, is under
contract with Harvard University’s Asia Center.
D’Etcheverry is currently researching the ways in
which medieval Japanese writers reshaped late Heian plots
and characters for their own audiences. She teaches a range
of courses on pre-modern literature and culture, including
classes on The Tale
of Genji, waka
poetics, and Edo comic fiction. She has served on the
executive committee of the UW-Madison Teaching Academy and
as a facilitator for campus-wide teaching workshops and is
strongly committed to training graduate students to become
good classroom instructors as well as researchers.
Steven C. Ridgely
Ph.D. Yale University
Professor Ridgely has published translations of essays and
interviews in Japan
Avant-Garde: 100 Poster Masterpieces from Underground
Theatre (Parco,
2004), a book review for the Journal of Japanese
Studies (Winter
2005), a screenplay for the Review of Japanese Culture and
Society (2005),
and a novella called Innocent World
(Vertical, 2004). He is
currently continuing research on the fictional and the real
in the cross-media work of Terayama Shuji and starting a
new project on representations of the future at the 1970
International Exposition in Osaka and later references to
Expo 70 itself as symbolic. His courses cover modern and
contemporary Japanese literature, cinema, and popular
culture.