Kaoru Hayashi
- Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-5664
- Learning Services Building, Rm. 110
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- kaoruhayashi@arizona.edu
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
2025-26 Courses
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Early Japanese Lit
JPN 446A (Fall 2025) -
Early Japanese Lit
JPN 546A (Fall 2025) -
Myth, Memory, and Mind
EAS 201 (Fall 2025)
2024-25 Courses
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Death In Trad Jpn Lit
JPN 311 (Spring 2025) -
Incorporeal & Ambiguous Bodies
JPN 447 (Spring 2025) -
Incorporeal & Ambiguous Bodies
JPN 547 (Spring 2025) -
Independent Study
JPN 599 (Spring 2025) -
Classical Japanese
JPN 405 (Fall 2024) -
Classical Japanese
JPN 505 (Fall 2024) -
Myth, Memory, and Mind
EAS 201 (Fall 2024)
2022-23 Courses
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Death In Trad Jpn Lit
JPN 311 (Spring 2023) -
Japanese Literature
JPN 496A (Spring 2023) -
Japanese Literature
JPN 596A (Spring 2023) -
Classical Japanese
JPN 405 (Fall 2022) -
Classical Japanese
JPN 505 (Fall 2022) -
Honors Thesis
EAS 498H (Fall 2022) -
Pre-Modern Japan Lit
JPN 446A (Fall 2022) -
Pre-Modern Japan Lit
JPN 546A (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Death In Trad Jpn Lit
JPN 311 (Spring 2022) -
Japanese Literature
JPN 496A (Spring 2022) -
Japanese Literature
JPN 596A (Spring 2022) -
Classical Japanese
JPN 405 (Fall 2021) -
Classical Japanese
JPN 505 (Fall 2021) -
Honors Thesis
EAS 498H (Fall 2021) -
Myth, Memory, and Mind
EAS 201 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Death In Trad Jpn Lit
JPN 311 (Spring 2021) -
Spec Topic Asian Studies
EAS 496C (Spring 2021) -
Spec Topic Asian Studies
EAS 596C (Spring 2021) -
Classical Japanese
JPN 405 (Fall 2020) -
Classical Japanese
JPN 505 (Fall 2020) -
Myth, Memory, and Mind
EAS 201 (Fall 2020)
Scholarly Contributions
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.
