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Danica Truscott is a Lecturer on Classical Japanese (Bungo) and Kanbun at Harvard University's Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC). She holds a Ph.D. from UCLA’s Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (2022), an A.M. from Harvard’s Regional Studies–East Asia program (2014), and a B.A. in Japanese Language from UC Berkeley (2011). Previously, she served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (2022–2023).
Her research focuses on premodern Japanese literature, particularly women’s literary history, gender performance, and the reception/translation of classical texts. She is currently working on a feminist reinterpretation of the Man’yōshū, Japan’s oldest poetic anthology, centering on Lady Sakanoue’s contributions to Nara period literary culture.
In teaching, Dr. Truscott offers courses in Classical Japanese, Kanbun, and advanced-level seminars that integrate both linguistic forms at EALC.
