Participant Info
- First Name
- Christina
- Last Name
- Laffin
- Country
- Canada
- State
- christina.laffin@ubc.ca
- Affiliation
- University of British Columbia
- Website URL
- https://asia.ubc.ca/persons/christina-laffin/
- Keywords
- Medieval Japanese women, literary history
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an associate professor at the University of British Columbia and the Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture. I study women and the conditions for literary production in Japan before the nineteenth century.
- Recent Publications
Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literary Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i, 2013.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @ChristinaLaffin
- Country Focus
- Japan
- Expertise by Geography
- Asia, Japan
- Expertise by Chronology
- Ancient, Medieval, Pre-17th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Book History, Family, Food History, Gender, Pedagogy, Sexuality, Women
