Emi Foulk Bushelle

Associate Professor

Contact

Email

foulke@wwu.edu

Phone

360-650-4954

Research Interests

• Early modern Japan; Kokugaku and Japanese nativism; Early modern Shinto; Japanese intellectual history
• Medieval waka poetics; Medieval and early modern Japanese Buddhism

Selected Publications

“Speech, Text, and Reality: Kokugaku and the Buddhist Roots of Japanese Philology,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 51:2 (2025), pp. 171–195.  

“Before Nativism: Buddhist Soteriology and Japan-Centrism in the Medieval Japanese Imaginary,” Japan Forum 34: 3 (2022), pp. 290–310.

“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 (2014), pp. 155–58.