Dennis Washburn

Dennis Washburn is the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor in Asian Studies at Dartmouth College. He is author of The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction and Translating Mount Fuji, and has edited several volumes, including Word and Image in Japanese Cinema, Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity, and The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire. In addition to his scholarly work he has translated several works of fiction, including Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shanghai, Mizukami Tsutomu’s The Temple of the Wild Geese, Tsushima Yuko’s Laughing Wolf, and The Tale of Genji.

Sachi Schmidt-Hori

Sachi Schmidt-Hori is assistant professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures at Dartmouth College. She is interested in investigating how gender, sexuality, corporeality, and power are represented and negotiated in pre-seventeenth-century Japanese narratives and illustrations. Her current project is on medieval chigo monogatari (Buddhist acolyte tales), which often depict romantic relationships between Buddhist priests and adolescent boys.