Ryan Hintzman

Ryan Hintzman is an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Bloomington's Hamilton Lugar School, specializing in premodern Japanese literature and poetics. His research focuses on traditional Japanese poetry (waka), material culture, and comparative approaches to Chinese, European, and Anglo-American literary traditions.

• Education: PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University (2025)
• Teaching: Courses include Literary Japanese, Japanese Poetry and Poetics, and Premodern Japanese Visual Culture

His current research project, Difficult Realities: Poetic Countertraditions in Premodern Japan, 960–1479, examines how Japanese court poets used inherited forms for unconventional purposes during precarious times. He also works on translating waka sequences connected to this project.

As a comparative literature scholar, Hintzman maintains interdisciplinary interests in transnational literary dialogues across East Asia and Europe. His work bridges textual analysis with material culture studies and translation theory.