Charlotte Eubanks

Research Interests: Japanese literature from classical to contemporary, particularly medieval (9th to 13th centuries); Buddhist literature; theories of orality, body, memory, and performance; folklore; the fantastic. ______________________________________________________________

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Japanese                                              2006-Present
Comparative Literature courses include: Religion and Literature (CMLIT 141).
Japanese courses include: Beginning Japanese (JAPNS 002), Advanced Japanese Conversation (JAPNS 401), Japanese Literature in its Cultural Context (JAPNS 120).

Lecturer of Classical Japanese Language & Literature, University of Virginia             2005-2006
Courses include: Readings in Classical Japanese (bungo), Classical Japanese Literature in Translation, Buddhism in Pre-modern Japanese Literature, the Warrior in the Literary Arts of Medieval & Early Modern Japan, and Modern Japanese Language. Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures.

Graduate Part-Time Instructor, University of Colorado                                                        2001-2005
Courses taught for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures: Introduction to Classical Japanese Culture, Introduction to Modern Japanese Culture, and Masterpieces of Japanese Literature. Courses taught for the Department of Humanities: Introduction to Western Humanities through the Renaissance and Introduction to Western Humanities from the Enlightenment to the Modern Period.

Study Abroad Course Organizer,  University of Colorado                                                    Summer 2002
Organized three week study abroad program to trace the route of seventeenth century poet Matsuo Bashō through north-eastern Japan in order to study Edo period culture and the waka, renga, and haiku poetic forms. Supervising professor: Laurel Rasplica-Rodd. With funding from the Freeman Foundation.

Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado                                                                               2000-2001
Courses taught: Introduction to Classical Japanese Culture and Introduction to Modern Japanese Culture.

Assistant Instructor, Indiana University                                                                                      1998-1999
Courses taught: Modern Japanese Language, first-year drill sessions.

Assistant Language Teacher, Japan Exchange and Teaching Program                            1994-1996

Assistant instructor of English at Hiramatsu Junior High School. Designed and taught community education courses in English conversation aimed at elementary school children, high school and college students, adult community members, and employees of the board of education.

LANGUAGES

EDUCATION

University of Colorado                                                                                                                    1999-2005
PhD in Comparative Literature with specializations in classical and medieval Japan, Buddhist literature, and theories of body and performance. Dissertation topic: “Rendering the Body Buddhist: Sermonizing in Medieval Japan.” 

Indiana University                                                                                                                             1996-1999
MA in Japanese from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures with specializations in modern Japanese fiction, women’s writing, and folklore.  Thesis topic: “Demon Wives and Animal Lovers: Three Modern Revisions of Inter-species Marriage Folklore.”

Kansai Foreign Language University (関西外国語大学)                                                   1992-1993
Completed one year intensive Japanese language program. Delivered graduation speech in Japanese.

University of Georgia                                                                                                                       1989-1993
Dual Bachelor’s degree in Japanese Language and Literature and Comparative Literature.

 PUBLICATIONS

REFEREED ARTICLES
In Print:
“On the Wings of a Bird: Folklore, Nativism, and Meiji Letters” Asian Folklore Studies, Volume LXV-1,
2006. Pages 1-20.

“Re-writing the Myth of Motherhood”Critical Asian Studies 33:2, June 2001. Translations of short stories by Okamoto Kanoko and Hirabayashi Taiko, and a short introductory article. Pages 287-300.

Under Consideration:
“The Hell of No Secrets: Museums and the Shaping of Collective Memory.” Under consideration at
Representations.

“Surveying Comparative Literature from the Pacific Rim.” Co-authored with Dr. Melek Ortabasi of
Hamilton College. Under consideration at the ADFL Bulletin.

In Progress:
“Essentials for Reading the Sutras: Devotional Reading in Premodern Japan.” To be submitted to
Monumenta Nipponica in May 2007.

“The Textual Condition and the Samsaric Condition: Reflections on the Scroll in Buddhist Reading
Practices.” To be submitted to PMLA in August 2007.

BOOKS:
In Progress:
Acts of Reading: Sutra Veneration and the Text-Flesh Nexus in Classical Buddhist Literature. Book length
study of technologies and devotional practices of reading.

TRANSLATIONS
 “The Love of Kishimo” by Okamoto Kanoko. In Modanizumu: An Anthology of Modernist Prose from
Japan. Ed. William Tyler. Forthcoming from the University of Hawai’i Press.

OTHER
Review of Takayuki Tatsumi Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America for Comparative Literature Studies.Submitted November 2006.

“Japanese Tales” 2500 word entry for the Encyclopedia of Folktales and Fairy Tales (Greenwood Press). A survey of the literary history of folklore in Japan from the earliest period to the present. Submitted December 2006.

“Wandering Text: Hayashi Fumiko’s Diary of a Vagabond” Proceedings for Across Time and Genre:
Reading and Writing Japanese Women’s Texts, Spring 2003.

“A Mother’s Love: Kishimo and the Re-Writing of Myth” Proceedings of the Midwest Association of Japanese Literary Studies 5, Summer 1999.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Devotional Sutra Reading and the Textual Condition.” Visualizing and Performing Buddhist Worlds
Conference, November 2007.

“Embodying Buddhism: Gendered Issues in Textual Production and Reproduction.” Asian Studies
Conference Japan, June 2007.

“The ‘Thick’ Scroll: Devotional Reading in Pre-modern Japan.” American Comparative Literature
Association National Conference, April 2007.

“The Sutra Inside: Memory as Graphic Discipline in the Buddhist Tradition” Modern Language
Association National Conference, December 2005.

“One Piece in the Puzzle of Embodiment: The Role of Erotics in Medieval Buddhist Setsuwa”
Association for Asian Studies National Conference, April 2005.

“Reading the Medieval: Performance and Embodiment in Kūkai’s Poems of Physical Decomposition”
American Comparative Literature Association National Conference, March 2005.

“Setsuwa as Performative Vocal Literature: The Hyakuza Hōdan Kikigakishō.” Association for Asian
Studies National Conference, March 2003.

“Wandering Text: Hayashi Fumiko’s Diary of a Vagabond” Across Time and Genre: Reading and
Writing Japanese Women’s Texts, August 2001.

“Re-Writing the Myth of Motherhood: Tsushima Yūko’s Fiction” American Comparative Literature
Association National Conference, April 2001.

“A Mother’s Love: Kishimo and the Re-Writing of Myth” Association of Japanese Literary Studies,
November 1998.

AWARDS, FELLLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES

Research Related:

Visiting Scholar in Residence, Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, June 2007

Reynolds Dissertation Fellowship, 2004-2005

Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grant – Gambill Family Endowment, 2003

Center for Humanities and the Arts Resident Scholar, 2002-2003

Devaney Recruiting Fellowship for New Scholars, 1999

Foreign Language Area Scholarship (FLAS) in Modern Japanese, 1997-1998

Teaching Related:

Graduate Teaching Program Certification, 2004

“Best Should Teach” Teaching and Pedagogical Leadership Award, 2003

Graduate Teaching Excellence Award, 2003

Residence Life Academic Teaching Award, 2003 & 2004

SERVICE
Dissertations, Masters Papers & Honors Theses
Directed:
Rosmah Tami. MA Paper. “The Representation of the Veil in Indonesian Contemporary Art: A Feminist
Poststructuralist Approach.” AY 2006-2007.

Second Reader:
Tyler Murphy. Honors Thesis. “Psychology of the Villain in Japanese Anime.” Spring 2007.
Ashley Jackson.  Honors Thesis. “War, Trauma and Memory: The Search for Peace in Modern Japan.”
Spring 2007.

University Service:
Advisor for Education Abroad to Japan, Fall 2006-present.
Member, Undergraduate Committee.
Member, East Asian Studies Committee.
Graduate student advising.

Service to Field:
Co-organizer, with Dr. Stephen Miller, for Special Interest Group Round Table on “Classical Japanese
Pedagogy.” Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference. San Francisco. April 2006.

Curriculum Coordinator, National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA) Study Tour for Secondary
School Teachers, May -July, 2004. Theme: Sacred Geography in Japanese Literature,
History, and Culture.

Presenter, NCTA Freeman Teaching Fellows Program, 2001-2005
Workshops include: “Religion in Daily Life,” “The Pacific War through Word and Image,” “Buddhism in Medieval Japan,” “Japanese History: Five Things to Know More About,” and “Constructing a National History: How Did Japan Really Begin?”

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association for Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS)                                                     1998-present
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)                                             2001-present
Association for Asian Studies (AAS)                                                                        2001-present
Association of Teachers of Japanese (ATJ)                                                               2003-present
Modern Language Association (MLA)                                                                     2004-present
Society for the Study of Japanese Religions (SSJR)                                                  2005-present
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