Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

Name: Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

Title(s):

• Professor

Contact Information: 734.647.2092 , qmz@umich.edu

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CJS
• CSEAS

Department Affiliation(s):

• Asian Languages and Cultures
• Comparative Literature; American Culture

Education Background: Ph.D., Japanese Literature, Harvard University, 1983; M.A., Japanese, University of California, Berkeley, 1973; B.A., English and Comparative Literature, University of the Philippines, 1966

Research/Teaching Specialization: Classical Japanese language; pre-modern Japanese literature, particularly poetry, philosophy, Buddhism, aesthetics, criticism, and theory; Philippine literature; gender, women's studies, patriarchy, and family; dissemination of ideologies and values; popular culture and high culture

Publications:

• "Heart's Flower: The Life and Poetry of Shinkei". 1994. (Authored Book)
• "Murmured Conversations: A Treatise on Poetry and Buddhism by Poet-Monk Shinkei". 2008. (Authored Book)
• "Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics". 2008. (Authored Book)
• "The Father-Daughter Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father". 2001. (Edited Book)
• "Nihon bungaku kenkyu shuseiron: sono senzaisei oyobi otoshi ana" ("Revisionism in Japanese Literary Studies: Its Potentials and Pitfalls"). 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "Ikirarenakatta sei no otografu: 'Sarashina nikki' no monogatari e no yokubo" ("An Autograph of the Unlived Life: The Desire for Fiction in the 'Sarashina Diary'"). 1996. (Book Chapter)
• "Resisting Figures of Resistance". 1995. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "The New Historicism and Japanese Literary Studies: Introduction". Summer 1998.