Norma Moore Field '65        Biography

Norma Field is Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, and author of In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: A Portrait of Japan at Century's End (1991) and The Splendor of Longing in "The Tale of Genji" (1987).

Norma Field:

Professor
University of Chicago
Department of East Asian Languages
Chicago, Illinois
Ph.D., East Asian Studies, Princeton University, 1983
M.A., East Asian Languages & Literatures, Indiana University, 1974

Teaching Interests

Premodern Japanese Poetry and Prose, Premodern Japanese Language, Gender Studies

Course Title

Asian Studies 491 Insects, Nature, and Modernity: The Case of Jean-Henri Fabre in Japan.

Selected Publications

"In the Realm of a Dying Emperor," Pantheon, 1993.

"The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji," Princeton University Press, 1987.

"And Then," Louisiana State University Press & Tokyo University Press, 1978.

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