Cheryl Crowley

Associate Professor
of Japanese Language and Literature

Ph.D., Japanese Literature, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2001
M.A., Oriental Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1992

Research Interests
Recent Courses
Recent Publications and Presentations
Past On-line Course Materials

E-mail:	ccrowle@emory.edu
Address:	Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures 532 Kilgo Circle Emory University, Atlanta GA 30322
Building:	Modern Languages
Telephone:	404 727 5087
Fax:	404 712 8511
Blog:	Weblog Yahantei

Research Interests

Early modern Japanese literature and art, classical Chinese poetry, women's studies.

Professor Crowley's research mainly focuses on haikai the popular poetry of Japan's early modern period. Haikai is the classical form of haiku. Her recent book discusses the work of Yosa Buson (1716-1783) the most famous haikai poet of the eighteenth century:

Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashô Revival

She is currently working on a new book about early modern women haikai poets.

An abbreviated listing of Professor Crowley's recent shorter publications and conference presentations is below.

Recent Courses

Please see the Course Atlas for information about courses this semester.

CHN/JPN/EAS 210	Chinese Calligraphy
JPN 190	Freshman Seminar: Introduction to East Asian Studies
JPN 190	Freshman Seminar: Heroes in Japan
JPN/EAS 270WR	Introduction to Japanese Culture
JPN/WS/EAS 361WR	The Tale of Genji: Sensuality and Salvation
JPN/EAS 362WR	Samurai, Shôguns, and Women Warriors
JPN/ArtHist/EAS 363WR	Literary and Visual Culture in Japan
JPN 375/EAS 385	Nature and Culture in Japan
JPN 375	Japanese Literature and Film

Recent Publications and Presentations

1. Publications

“Amerika no saijiki seidoku: Higinson no Haiku World hoka (Saijiki in America: A Close Reading of Higginson's Haiku World and Others. Chapter in Kokusai haiku to saijiki (International haiku and season word dictionaries), Azuma Shôko, ed., Nihon Gakujitsu Shinkôkai, 2009.

“Amerika no haiku ni okeru kigo (Kigo in American haiku).” Chapter in Kokusai haiku
to saijiki (International haiku and season word dictionaries), Azuma Shôko, ed., Nihon Gakujitsu Shinkôkai, 2009.

“Chains of Elusiveness: Buson and Kitô’s Momosumomo (Peaches and Plums) Haikai
Sequences,” Southeast Review of Asian Studies, 2008.

"Kanagaki no shi: Yosa Buson and Haishi." Included in the juried procedings volume for the 2006 biannual conference of the Australian Association for Asian Studies,Wollongong, NSW, Australia.

"Haiku." Entry in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2008.

"Bashô at the Center of Creation." Translation of article by Hori Nobuo, in Matsuo Bashô's Poetic Spaces: Exploring Haikai Intersections, ed. by Eleanor Kerkham, Palgrave Press,. 2006.

"Exploring Bashô's World of Poetic Expression: Soundscape Haiku." Translation of article by Horikiri Minoru, in Matsuo Bashô's Poetic Spaces: Exploring Haikai Intersections, ed. Eleanor Kerkham. Palgrave Press, 2006.

"Yosa Buson's Imagined Landscapes." In Landscapes Imagined and Remembered, Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 2005.

"Depopularizing the Popular: Tentori (Point-scoring) Haikai and the Bashô Revival," Japan Studies Review, Summer, 2005.

"Collaboration in the 'Back to Bashô' Movement: The 'Susuki mitsu' Sequence of Yosa Buson's Yahantei School." Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 11, No. 2, Fall 2003.

"Women in Haikai: The Tamamoshû (Jeweled Water Grass Anthology) of Yosa Buson.”U.S.-Japan Women's Journal, No. 26, 2004.

"Humor in the Haikai of Yosa Buson: Shinhanatsumi (New Flower Gathering) and Kokkei," Japanese Poeticity and Narrativity Revisited, the Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, Vol. 4, Summer 2003.

"New Flower gathering" (Shin hanatsumi), "The Badger." published in Early Modern Japanese Literature, Haruo Shirane and James Brandon, eds., New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

"Eigo de yomu Oku no hosomichi: Amerika no Nihon bungaku kenkyû no tachiba kara" (Bashô's Narrow road to the interior in English from the perspective of an American researcher in Japanese literature). Oku no hosomichi to koten kyôiku (Narrow road to the interior in the classical curriculum), Horikiri Minoru, ed., Tokyo: Gakubunsha, 1998.

"Putting Makoto Into Practice: Onitsura's 'Hitorigoto'." Monumenta Nipponica, Spring 1995.

2. Presentations (2004-2009)

“Haikai Poet Shokyûni and the Economics of Literary Families.” Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies. Chicago, IL, March 29, 2009

“Pictures in Comic Elegance: Yosa Buson and Haiga.” Paper presented
at the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies Colloquium, Jauuary 26, 2009

"Pleasure and Transcendence: The Yahantei School's Literati Personae." Paper presented at the Early Modern Japan Network Meeting in Conjunction at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA, April 5, 2008.

"Chains of Elusiveness: Buson and Kitô's Momosumomo (Peaches and Plums) Haikai Sequences." Paper presented at the annual convention of the Southeast Council for Asian Studies, Hilton Head Island, NC, January 20, 2008.

"Longing for a Familiar Other: The Visualization of China in 18th Century Japanese Haikai Poetry." Paper presented at Empire and Nation in East Asia: Rhetorics and Images conference, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 27, 2007.

"Kanagaki no shi: Yosa Buson and Haishi." Paper presented at the biannual conference of the Australian Association for Asian Studies, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, June 28, 2006.

"Characterizing Poetry: Visuality, Writing, and Poetry in Europe and Japan." Paper presented at the European Studies Seminar, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, December 4, 2006.

"Haikai and Kanshi: Buson's Haishi." Paper presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, December 27, 2005.

"Authenticity after Bashô: Buson's Ways of Transformation and Transcendence." Paper presented at the biannual conference of Haiku North America, Port Townshend, WA, September 24, 2005.

"On Translating Haiku." Member of a panel discussion on translation at the biannual conference of Haiku North America, Port Townshend, WA, September 24, 2005.

"Haikai and the Kijin (Eccentric): Bashô School Poet Shiba Sonome." Paper presented at the annual convention of the Association for Asian Studies, Chicago, IL, April 1, 2005.

"Haikai Reform: The Chinese Literati Ideal as Resistance to Popularization." Paper presented at the annual convention of the Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, December 30, 2004.

"Yosa Buson's Imagined Landscapes: Haikai Verse and Image." Paper presented at the annual conference of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, October 24, 2004.

"Depopularizing the Popular: The Bashô Revival and Tentori Haikai." Paper presented at the semi-annual meeting of Southern Japan Seminar, Atlanta, GA, April 17, 2004.

"Yosa Buson and the Shômon (Bashô school): The Anxiety of Reception." Paper presented at annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, March 7, 2004.

Past On-line Course Materials

More recent course websites are available through Emory's Blackboard courseware system; Emory log-in required.

FALL 2003

JPN 190 Freshman Seminar in East Asian Studies
Class website

JPN 363S / AS 363S / ArtHist 363S WR Literary and Visual Culture in Japan
Class website

SPRING 2003

JPN 362 / AS 362 Samurai, Shoguns, and Women Warriors
Class website

JPN 372 WR / AS 372 WR Introduction to Modern Japanese Literature
Class website

FALL 2002