Kaoru Hayashi
- Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
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Degrees
- Ph.D. East Asian Studies
- Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Narrating Vengeful Spirits and Genealogies in Premodern Japanese Literature
Work Experience
- The Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University (2019 - 2020)
- Texas State University (2018 - 2020)
Interests
Research
Strange occurrences, monsters, and vengeful spirits depicted in Japanese narratives from the ninth to the mid-nineteenth centuries; premodern Japanese history; religious studies; area studies; modern film, theatre and mass media; literary theory; monster theory
Teaching
Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture; Film and Theatre, Post-Colonial and Area Studies in East Asia, Premodern East Asia
Courses
No activities entered.
Scholarly Contributions
Chapters
- Hayashi, K. (2025).
"Kioku Fūkei no meisho: Heike monogatari ni miru Angen no taika (1177) no katari「記憶風景の名所:『平家物語』にみる安元の大火（一一七七）の語り」"
. In 『名所の誕生: 「名」を与えられた風景』 Meisho no tanjō: nao ataerareta fūkei(pp 30 pages). Kyoto, Japan: Shibunkaku.More infoThe book is planned to be published by the end of summer 2022 in Japanese by a highly regarded Japanese academic publisher (Shibunkaku). I was invited to submit an abstract and present the contents/proposal at a meeting of the participants, and following the meeting I was asked to submit my chapter for publication.
Presentations
- Hayashi, K. (2024, March). Authority Haunted: The Exiled, Erased, and Unnarrated Retired Emperor Sutoku’s Vengeful Spirit. The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference. Seattle, WA.
- Hayashi, K. (2024, October). The Seen, the Unseen, and the Between: Vengeful Spirits in Tendai-sect Archbishop Jien’s Gukanshō. The Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies (MARAAS). University of Delaware, Newark, DE: MARAAS.
- Hayashi, K. (2021, October). “Monsters in the Making: Telling Stories of “Heroes” and “Villains” for the panel “Transformation: Story, Character & Meaning Across Time & Space.”. The 2021 Tucson Humanities Festival. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ: College of Humanities, University of Arizona.
