Sachi Schmidt-Hori

|Associate Professor
Academic Appointments

Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture

I am interested in liteary and pictorial representations of gender, sexuality, and class in pre-seventeenth-century Japanese narratives as well as analyzing the modern metanarratives thereof. My first book, Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Narratives (University of Hawai`i Press, 2021) is on medieval chigo monogatari (Buddhist acolyte tales), which often depict romantic relationships between Buddhist priests and adolescent boys. These tales challenge a host of normative and moral standards we--academics, non-academics, the far-right, the far-left, and beyond--internalize, including such ideas as "sexual orientation," "transgenerational sex," and "sexual agency." A detailed review of my book for general audience is available for free: https://wapercyfoundation.org/?p=1133

Contact

(603) 646-2861
Anonymous, Room 205
HB 6191

Department(s)

Asian Societies, Cultures and Languages

Education

  • M.A. University of Washington, Seattle
  • PhD University of Washington, Seattle

Selected Publications

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HONORS & AWARDS

Honorable Mention, the Kenneth B. Pyle Prize for Best Article for “Yoshitsune and the Gendered Transformations of Japan’s Self-Image” (the prize honoring the founding editor of the Journal of Japanese Studies, given annually for a JJS research article published in the previous year), 2023. https://depts.washington.edu/jjs/kenneth-b-pyle-prize-for-best-article-i...

Excellence in Teaching Award, University of Washington, 2009 ($ 7,000; annual campus-wide teaching award given to two out of approximately 1,500 graduate teaching assistants).

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Washington, 2003.