Sachi Schmidt-Hori

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture

I am interested in investigating how gender, sexuality, corporeality, and power are represented and negotiated in pre-seventeenth-century Japanese narratives and illustrations. My first book, Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Narratives (University of Hawai`i Press, 2021) is on medieval chigo monogatari (Buddhist acolyte tales), which often depict romantic relationships between Buddhist priests and adolescent boys. These tales challenge a host of normative and moral standards we (academics, especially) internalize, including such ideas as "sexual orientation," "transgenerational sex," and "sexual agency."
My current project is on the literary representations of "milk kinships" in pre-seventeenth Japanese tales, in cluding the Tale of Ochikubo, the Tale of Genji, the Tales of the Heike.
I am also the director of the Springboard Japan Project, a multi-purpose open-access forum for Japan Studies:
Springboard Japan – Dartmouth-UCSD Japan Studies Digital Project

Contact

(603) 646-2861
Anonymous, Room 205
HB 6191

Department(s)

Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages

Education

  • M.A. University of Washington, Seattle
  • PhD University of Washington, Seattle

Selected Publications

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