Norma Field

Norma M. Field is an author and professor of East Asian studies at the University of Chicago.^[1] She teaches Premodern Japanese Poetry and Prose, Premodern Japanese Language, and Gender Studies as relating to Japanese women.

Her areas of expertise include: Japan, Literature: Modern Japanese, Feminism, Translation, Humanities.

Field was born in Tokyo, Japan shortly after the end of World War II to an American serviceman father and his Japanese wife. She was raised in Tokyo attending school in the Washington Heights District. At age 10, she transferred to the American School in Japan, where she stayed until she graduated high school. After graduation, she moved to America, and received a BA from Pitzer College in the field of European Studies.

Field has a masters degree from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988.^[2]

Selected publications

• The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji (1987)
• In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: A Portrait of Japan at Century's End (1993)
• From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo (1997)

References

1. ^ "Faculty & Staff: Norma M. Field, Ph.D.". University of Chicago: Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. http://ealc.uchicago.edu/faculty/field.shtml. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 
2. ^ "Norma Field". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. http://www.gf.org/fellows/4541-norma-field. Retrieved 8 May 2011. 

External links

• UChicago Experts Guide
• American Schools in Japan

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