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Jason Webb

Professor (Teaching) of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures
Pronouns He / Him / His Email jasonweb@usc.edu Office SOS 173

Research & Practice Areas

Japan’s seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries: the reception of Chinese texts in the archipelago, connections between literary theory and political authority, the architecture of royal poetic anthologies, and poetry composed in Japanese and Chinese.

  • Research Specialties

    Japan’s seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries: the reception of Chinese texts in the archipelago, connections between literary theory and political authority, the architecture of royal poetic anthologies, and poetry composed in Japanese and Chinese.

  • Book Chapters

    • Webb, J. P. 東アジアの目録学伝統と近年における日本の前近代文庫研究 (East Asian Bibliographic Traditions and Current Japanese Premodern Archives Studies). 禁裏・公家文庫研究 (Research on Royal and Noble Archives) Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 2022.3-22
    • Webb, J. P. (2020). East Asian Bibliographic Traditions and Current Japanese Premodern Archives Studies. 禁裏・公家文庫研究 (Research on Royal and Noble Archives) (Vol. 7) pp. 2-26. Kyoto: Shibunkaku.
    • Webb, J. P. (2013). Mr. Senryū’s Barrel of Laughs: Edo Haikai Style. Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-Cit pp. 219-234. University of Hawai’í Press.

    Journal Article

    • Webb, J. P. (2017). F. V. ディキンズがとらえた『万葉集』の詩学 (F.V. Dickens’s Man’yōshū Poetics). 万葉古代学研究年報 (Annual Gazette of Man’yo Historical Research Institute). (15), pp. 45-58.
    • Webb, J. P. (2014). The Big Business of Writing: Monjō keikoku in the Early Heian Court of Saga Tennō. Sino-Japanese Studies. Vol. 21, pp. 12-42.
    • Webb, J. P. (2012). 『万葉集』と『懐風藻』の間―大三輪高市麻呂を中心に (Crossroads of Man’yōshū and Kaifūsō: The Case of Ōmiwa no Takechimaro). 万葉古代学研究年報 (Annual Gazette of Man’yo Historical Research Institute). (10), pp. 128-136.
    • Webb, J. P. (2011). アメリカ南部の歌謡における「旅」—ブルーズとゴスペルとの相違を中心に (“Travel” in Songs of the American South: Blues and Gospel Contrasted). 万葉古代学研究年報 (Annual Gazette of Man’yo Historical Research Institute). (9), pp. 61-78.
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