Major Publications:

BOOKS

Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2008). 

Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Buddhist Sermon-Ballads and Miracle Plays of Seventeenth-Century Japan (New York: Columbia University Press, work-in-progress)

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

“Kusa-zōshi ni miru otogizōshi juyō,” in Otogizōshi: hyakka ryōran, ed. Tokuda Kazuo (Tokyo: Kasama Shoin, 2008), 601-18.

“Otogizōshi Shuten Dōji / Ibuki Dōji no nikushoku ron,” Kokubungaku: kaishaku to kanshō, bessatsu (October 2008): 141-50.

“Illustrating the Classics: The Otogizôshi Lazy Tarō in Edo Pictorial Fiction,” Japanese Language and Literature 42, no. 1 (spring 2008): 257-304.

“Travel Writing from Hell? Minomoto no Yoriie and the Politics of Fuji no hitoana sōshi,” Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies 8 (2007): 112-22. [pdf]

“Preaching the Animal Realm in Late-Medieval Japan,” Asian Folklore Studies 65, no. 2 (fall 2006): 179-204. [pdf]

“Tourists in Paradise: Writing the Pure Land in Medieval Japanese Fiction,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 33, no. 2 (fall 2006): 269-296. [pdf]

“Murasaki Shikibu for Children: The Illustrated Shinpan Murasaki Shikibu of ca. 1747,” Japanese Language and Literature 40, no. 1 (spring 2006): 1-36.

“Reading the Miraculous Powers of Japanese Poetry: Spells, Truth Acts, and a Medieval Buddhist Poetics of the Supernatural,” Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 32, no. 1 (spring 2005): 1-33. [pdf]

“Little Atsumori and The Tale of the Heike: Fiction as Commentary, and the Significance of a Name,” Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies 5 (2004): 325-36.

“Nomori no kagami and the Perils of Poetic Heresy,” Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies 4 (2003): 99-114. 

“Apocryphal Texts and Literary Identity: Sei Shônagon and the Matsushima Diary,” Monumenta Nipponica 57, no. 2 (summer 2002): 133-71.

“Voices from the Feminine Margin: Izumi Shikibu and the Nuns of Kumano and Seiganji,” in “Performing Japanese Women,” vol. 12:1 #23 of Women and Performance (2001): 59-78.

        TRANSLATIONS

“Shintokumaru,” “Shuten Dōji,” and “Chūjōhime,” in Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, ed. Haruo Shirane (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), 1123-50 and 1160-81.

“The Tale of the Fuji Cave” (Fuji no hitoana sōshi). Published online as a digital supplement to Japanese Journal of Religious Studies 33, no. 2 (fall 2006): 1-22 [pdf].