Associate Professor, East Asian Studies
Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1994
Office: LSB 126
(520) 626-3476
e-mail: noelp (at) u.arizona.edu
Teaching interests:
Pre-modern Japanese literature, culture and languages.
Research interests:
Current project: The representation of death in early court writings.
Other research: Tokugawa mathematics. Japanese literary and art theories,
particularly Medieval Noh theory.
Select Publications:
“Towards an Asian narrative of death—the Japanese case.” Kyushu Daigaku Ajia Sôgô Seisaku Sentâ Kiyô 1 (2006): (1-19).
Traces in the Way: Michi in the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku. Cornell East Asia Program, 2006.
“Models of the Way in the Theory of Noh.” Japan Review 18 (2006): (29-55).
Chûsei nôgakuron ni okeru ‘michi’ no gainen: nôyakusha ga ayumubeki michi. Kyoto: Kokusai Nihon Bunka Kenkyû Sentâ, 2005.
Teaching about Japan in Japan: a Handbook. Edited by Richard Bowring and Noel Pinnington. University of Kyushu Press, 2000.
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