Steven D. Carter

Department Chair; Professor
sdcarter@stanford.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Research Area:

Japanese Poetry, Poetics, and Poetic Culture
The Japanese Essay (zuihitsu)
Travel Writing
Historical Fiction
The Relationship between the Social and the Aesthetic

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

Selected publications

"Travel as Poetic Practice in Medieval and Early Modern Japan," in Traditions of East Asian Travel.  New York: Berghahn Books, 2006.

JUST LIVING: POEMS BY THE MEDIEVAL MONK TONNA. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002.

UNFORGOTTEN DREAMS: POEMS BY THE ZEN MONK SHÔTETSU. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

REGENT REDUX: A LIFE OF THE STATESMAN-SCHOLAR ICHIJÔ KANEYOSHI. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1997.

"Remodeling the Reizei House: The State of the Poetic Field in Eighteenth Century Japan," Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9.2 (Fall 2001): 30-39.

"Chats with the Master: Selections from Kensai Zodan," Monumenta Nipponica 56.3 (Autumn 2001): 295-347.

"Bashô and the Mastery of Poetic Space in Oku no Hosomichi" Journal of the American Oriental Society 120.2 (2000).

"Daiei no honyaku: Ton’a no uta wo megutte (in Japanese)," in Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Japanese Literature (Tokyo: National Institute of Japanese Literature, 1999): pp. 1-22.

"The Persistence of the Personal in Late Medieval Uta," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 59.1 (June 1999): 163-185.

"Seeking What the Masters Sought: Masters, Disciples, and Poetic Enlightenment in edieval Japan," in The Distant Isle: Studies and Translations of Japanese Literature in Honor of Robert H. Brower. Ann Arbor: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1997, pp. 35- 58.

"On a Bare Branch: Bashô and the Haikai Profession," Journal of the American Oriental Society 117.1 (1997): 57-69.

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

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