Steven D. Carter

Department Chair; Professor

Contact Information:

Building 250, Room 102
(650) 725-8926
sdcarter@stanford.edu

Office Hours:

Tuesdays 2:00-3:00PM, Thursdays 3:00-4:00PM

Education:

1980 Ph.D., Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley
1977 M.A., Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley
1974 B.A. (summa cum laude), Brigham Young University
Major: Japanese Language and Literature
Minors: English and History

Research

Interests:

Japanese poetry, poetics, and poetic culture; the Japanese essay (zuihitsu); travel writing; historical fiction; intersections of the social and the aesthetic

Teaching

Current Courses:


Around the World in Seventeen Syllables: Haiku in Japan, the U.S., and the Digital World	Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Origins of the haiku form in Japan, its place in the discourse of Orientalism during the 19th and early 20th centuries in the West, its appropriation by U.S.devotees of Zen and the beat poets after WW II, and its current transformation into a global form through the Internet.	Aut
Around the World in Seventeen Syllables: Haiku	Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Origins of the haiku form in Japan, its place in the discourse of Orientalism during the 19th and early 20th centuries in the West, its appropriation by U.S.devotees of Zen and the beat poets after WW II, and its current transformation into a global form through the Internet.	Aut
The Tale of Genji and Its Historical Reception	(Graduate students register for 270.) Approaches to the tale including 12th-century allegorical and modern feminist readings. Influence upon other works including poetry, Noh plays, short stories, modern novels, and comic book (manga) retellings. Prerequisite for graduate students: JAPANLNG 129B or 103, or equivalent.	Win
Introduction to Sino-Japanese	Readings in Sino-Japanese (kambun) texts of the Heian, Kamakura, and Muromachi periods, with focus on grammar and reading comprehension. Prerequisite: 246 or equivalent.	Spr

Selected Publications:

Title	Year
Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History	2007
Travel as Poetic Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Japan	2006
Just Living: Poems by the Medieval Monk Tonna	2002
Chats with the Master: Selections from Kensai Zodan	2001
Remodeling the Reizei House: The State of the Poetic Field in Eighteenth Century Japan	2001
Bashô and the Mastery of Poetic Space in Oku no Hosomichi	2000
The Persistence of the Personal in Late Medieval Uta	1999
Daiei no honyauta wo megutte (in Japanese)	1999
UNFORGOTTEN DREAMS: POEMS BY THE ZEN MONK SHÔTETSU	1997
REGENT REDUX: A LIFE OF THE STATESMAN-SCHOLAR ICHIJÔ KANEYOSHI	1997
Seeking What the Masters Sought: Masters, Disciples, and Poetic Enlightenment in edieval Japan	1997
On a Bare Branch: Bashô and the Haikai Profession	1997

Professional Activities:

2005--Chair and Professor, Department of Asian Languages, Stanford University

2004--Executive Director of the Consortium, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Study, Yokohama, Japan

1999-2000, Visiting Research Professor, National Institute of Japanese Literature, Tokyo, Japan

2003- Professor, Department of Asian Languages, Stanford University

1993-2003 Chair and Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures University of California, Irvine

1990-93 Professor, University of California, Irvine

1985-90 Associate Professor, Brigham Young University

1980-85 Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University

1979-80 Visiting Lecturer, UCLA