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David Theodore BialockAssociate Professor of East Asian Languages and CulturesChair Contact Information E-mail: bialock@usc.edu Phone: (213) 740-3716 Office: THH 356K |
Education |
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 Ph.D. Japanese Literature, Columbia University, 1997
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M.A. Japanese Literature, Columbia University, 1992
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B.A. Classical Greek, University of Michigan, 1980
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Postdoctoral Training |
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Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Stanford University, 1996-1997
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Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History |
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Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California, 08/16/2011-
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Description of Research |
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Summary Statement of Research Interests |
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| Current research interests include medieval Japanese literature; musical ideas in ritual and literature; translation; ecocriticism; environment and Japanese literature | |
Research Specialties |
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| Medieval Japanese literature, classical Japanese poetry, literature and the environment, ecocriticism | |
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Other Funded Research |
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Japan Foundation Fellowship, Geographies of Sound: Music, Narrative, and Ritual in Medieval Japan, $50,000, 2003-2004
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Publications |
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Book |
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 Bialock, D. T. Eccentric Spaces, Hidden Histories: Narrative, Ritual, and Royal Authority from The Chronicles of Japan to The Tale of the Heike. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, February 2007. Stanford
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Book Chapter |
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Bialock, D. T. "Nation and Epic: The Tale of the Heike as Modern Classic". Stanford, CA: Inventing the Classics: Canon Formation, National Identity, and Japanese Literature/Stanford University Press, 2000. 151-178
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Journal Article |
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Bialock, D. T. Outcasts, Emperorship, and Dragon Cults in The Tale of the Heike. Buddhist Priests, Kings and Marginals: Studies on Medieval Japanese Buddhism, vol. 13 of Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie/Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient. 2003: 227-310 Cahiers d'Extrême-Asie
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Bialock, D. T.
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Voice, Text, and the Question of Poetic Borrowing in Late Classical Japanese Poetry. Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.
Vol. Volume 54 (no. 1)
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Honors and Awards |
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Japan Foundation Fellowship, 2003-2004
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Andrew Mellon Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, Stanford University, 1996-1997
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Fulbright Award, Fulbright-Hays Research Grant, 1992-1993
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