Torquil Duthie is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He received his B.A. (1992) in Japanese from SOAS (University of London), his M.A. (1998) in Ancient Japanese Literature from Hokkaidō University, and his Ph.D (2005) in Premodern Japanese Literature from Columbia University. His field of specialization is Early and Classical Japanese literature. Research interests include early and classical Japanese court poetry (7-12th centuries); mythical and historical writing in early Japan; narrative theory and representations of "voice" and subjectivity in Japanese literature; theories of lyric and ritual in the context of early Japanese texts; medieval and early modern literature of the supernatural; seventeenth and eighteenth century kokugaku ("national learning") and its relationship to modern and contemporary philology and theory. At present he is writing a book on the Man’yōshū and the role of poetic culture in the formation of the early Japanese state.
Japanese 50: Japanese Civilization
Japanese 140: Readings in Classical Japanese Literature
Japanese C149/C249: Introduction to Kanbun and Other Literary Styles
Poesía Clásica Japonesa: Kokinwakashū. Madrid: Editorial Trotta, 2005 (a translation into Spanish of 100 poems from the Kokinshū with the kana preface and an introduction)
“Ōmikōtoka ni okeru sakuchū shutai no nimensei” (The Two Aspects of the Narrating Subject in Hitomaro’s Poem on the Ruined Ōmi Capital). Jōdai bungaku, Nov. 2003
“‘Kōshō kara kisai e’—sōsakushugi to kyōjushugi” (‘From Orality to Writing’: Composition and Reception). Kokugo kokubun kenkyū, Jan. 2000
Man’yōshū translations and commentary in The Longman Anthology of World Literature, vol. 2, edited by Haruo Shirane, Longman, 2004
Man’yōshū translations and commentary, and introductions to “Early Japan,” Kojiki, Nihon shoki, Man’yōshū in Traditional Japanese Literature, An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, edited by Haruo Shirane, Columbia University Press, Feb 2007
Review of Man’yōgakushi no kenkyū, by Ogawa Yasuhiko, in Kokubungaku: kaishaku to kyōzai no kenkyū 52: 12 (Sep. 2007)
University of California, Los Angeles
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Email: duthie@humnet.ucla.edu