User:Kurtishanlon
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About Me
[edit]I am a PhD Candidate at the University of British Columbia, writing my dissertation on Uta-awase from the Heian period.
My academic interests are specifically in a type of Japanese poem called waka, and I am very interested in the ways literary and ludic cultures intersect. There are many games and forms of play from Japan that incorporate waka knowledge and composition, such as uta-awase and hyakunin isshū karuta, and I am interested in researching the societal role of these games.
Education
[edit]- 2017 Ten-month intensive Japanese program, Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, Japan
- 2015 MA in Japanese Humanities, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
- 2009 BA in Japanese, minor in English, University of California, Los Angeles
Wikipedia Projects
[edit]My goal on Wikipedia is to facilitate the wider dissemination of knowledge about Japan and Japanese literature through open access channels.
I primarily focus my attention on the section of Wikipedia dedicated to Japanese literature, specifically premodern. My activities include
- Expanding stubs into full articles
- Writing new articles about historical people or literature that does not exist on English Wikipedia
- Translating articles from Japanese Wikipedia on these topics and publishing them on English Wikipedia