Premodern Asian Studies

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Paul S. Atkins
Professor
Japanese Program Coordinator

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Nobuko Horikawa Wins Distinguished Dissertation Award (June 21, 2023)
Paul Atkins and Nobuko Horikawa co-author article in Nature (May 1, 2023)
Faculty publication explores the pronunciation of ancient Chinese and beyond (June 1, 2010)
David Knechtges delivers spring Katz lecture (June 1, 2009)

Related Research

Sébastien Guillet, Christophe Corona, Clive Oppenheimer, Franck Lavigne, Myriam Khodri, Francis Ludlow, Micheal Sigl, Matthew Toohey, Paul S. Atkins, Zhen Yang, Tomoko Muranaka, Nobuko Horikawa, and Markus Stoffel. “Lunar eclipses illuminate timing and climate impact of medieval volcanism.” Nature, vol. 616, pp. 90–95 (2023).
Pauwels, Heidi. 2022b. Un Mahābhārata vernaculaire prémoderne: Performances et émotions à Gwalior au xve siècle. In : Anne Castaing and Ingrid Le Gargasson, eds. Performances de la littérature en Asie du Sud : Réciter, interpréter, jouer. Aix-en-Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence.
Pauwels, Heidi. 2021b. The Vernacular Pulse of Sanskrit: Metre and More in Songs of the Gītagovinda and Bhāgavata Purāna. The Journal of Hindu Studies 14: 294–319.
Pauwels, Heidi. 2021a. The Power Politics of Desire and Revenge: An Old Hindi Kīcaka-vadha Performance at the Tomar Court of Gwalior. In: Nell Hawley and Sohini Pillai, eds. Many Mahābhāratas. 237–56. Albany, NY: SUNY.
Pauwels, Heidi, and Eva De Clercq, eds. 2020. Vernacular performance, memory construction, and emotions: warrior epics, Akhārās, and giant Jinas in Gwalior, Special issue of South Asian History and Culture. Introduction DOI: 10.1080/19472498.2020.1719318
Smith, Caley Charles. 2019. “How is a Vehicular Homicide like the Sacrifice?” Self, Sacrifice, and Cosmos: Late Vedic Thought, Ritual, and Philosophy: Papers in Honor of Dr. Ganesh Umakant Thite’s Contributions to Vedic Studies, Ed. Lauren Bausch, Ratna Sagar Pvt. Ltd, 144-60.
Jyana S. Browne, "Creating a Public: Love Suicide on the Osaka Stage, 1703-1722." Ph.D. dissertation, School of Drama, University of Washington, 2017.
Myrrh in Chinese Medicine: the Legacy of the Silk Road
Paul S. Atkins. Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2017.
Paul S. Atkins. “The Word Monosugoshi and Changing Perceptions of Nature in Medieval Japan.” Japanese Language and Literature 47:2 (October, 2013), pp. 159-92.