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Torquil Duthie is a Professor in the Department of Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His work bridges literary analysis, historical studies, and cultural theory to explore premodern Japanese literature and its legacy.
- Education: Ph.D. in Premodern Japanese Literature (Columbia University, 2005), M.A. in Classical Japanese Literature (Hokkaidō University, 1998), B.A. (Hons) in Japanese (SOAS, University of London, 1992).
Specializing in early and classical Japanese poetry, myth, and historical writing, Duthie examines how narrative theory and subjectivity shape premodern Japanese literature. His research connects literary culture to state representation and investigates the evolution of kokugaku (“native learning”) from the 17th–18th centuries to modern philology and theory. He teaches classical Japanese, kanbun, and seminars on premodern topics.
Duthie’s publications include Man’yōshū and the Imperial Imagination in Early Japan (Brill, 2014), a Spanish translation of the Kokinshū, and articles analyzing the political dimensions of early Japanese historiography. Current projects include a book on literary writing, ritual, and historiography in Early Japan and an English translation of the Kokinshū.
