Associate Professor of Classical Japanese, Department of Asian Studies
Email: christina.laffin@ubc.ca
Christina Laffin is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies and a former Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture at the University of British Columbia. She also serves as Social Sciences and Humanities Research Advisor in the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation.
Dr. Laffin researches women’s writing, travel literature, and the processes of education and socialization in premodern Japan. She has worked on equity and knowledge sharing for an eight-year project on East Asian religions, collaborated with graduate students to produce a video series on premodern Japan, and led a research cluster representing travel culture in early modern Japan through digital approaches to a seventeenth-century manuscript.
Research Area:
Medieval travel diaries; women’s education and socialization before 1600; poetic practices and waka culture; theories of travel, gender, and autobiography; noh theatre; and comparative approaches to medieval literature.