2019 Topic: “Everything Old is New Again:” Teaching Classical Japanese Literature through Popular Culture
Biography:
Otilia Milutin teaches Japanese language and literature at Middlebury. She received her Ph.D from the University of British Columbia in 2015 and her M.A. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Before coming here, she taught at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) and Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois). She specializes in premodern Japanese literature, language and culture, with a focus on issues related to sex, gender and sexuality in Japanese court tales. She is currently finalizing her research on representations of sexual violence in Heian and Kamakura monogatari and conducting new research on contemporary adaptations of Japanese classics in manga, anime and film. Her other research and teaching interests include femmes fatales in Japanese literature and sex and censorship in Japanese cinema.