Emi Foulk Bushelle
Associate Professor
Office
Location
Bond Hall 344
Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-3:30, and by appointment.
Research Interests
- Early modern Japan; Kokugaku and Japanese nativism; Japanese intellectual history
- Medieval waka poetics; medieval and early modern Japanese Buddhism
Selected Publications
“Before Nativism: Buddhist Soteriology and Japan-Centrism in the Medieval Japanese Imaginary,” Japan Forum (2020), pp. 1-21.
“Philology for an Enchanted World: Motoori Norinaga and the Study of Japanese Language and Literature in Early Modern Japan,” Philological Encounters 5 (2020), pp. 161–89.
“The Poetics of Nativism: Motoori Norinaga and the Sacralization of Japanese Literature,” Monumenta Nipponica 74:1 (2019), pp. 59–84.
“Motoori Norinaga no gengokan — rei no kanten kara” 本居宣長の言語観—礼の観点から (Motoori Norinaga’s Views on Language: From the Perspective of Ritual), Hikaku shisō kenkyū 比較思想研究 40 (March 2014), pp. 155–58.