Morgan Rouzer

• Educational Background & Specialties
• Publications
• Courses

Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

• Ph.D.: East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1989

Specialties

• Poetics and poetry of China and Japan
• Medieval Chinese poetry
• Buddhism
• Traditions of the supernatural in East Asia and their role in modern popular culture

Publications

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Publications

• The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Fourth Edition). Roland Green, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, Princeton University Press, Rouzer, Morgan, 2012.
• On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems. University of Washington Press, Rouzer, Morgan, 2015.
• "Du Fu and the Failure of Lyric": Rouzer, Morgan, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 33 (2011), 27-53.
• Writing Another's Dream: The Poetry of Wen Tingyun. Stanford: Stanford University Press, Rouzer, Morgan, 1993.
• Articulated Ladies: Gender and the Male Community in Early Chinese Texts. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, Rouzer, Morgan, 2001.
• A New Practical Primer of Literary Chinese. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center, Rouzer, Morgan, 2007.
• "Early Buddhist Kanshi: Court, Country, and Kí»kai.": Rouzer, Morgan, Monumenta Nipponica, 59:4 (Winter 2004), 431-61.
• "The Life of the Party: Theorizing Clients and Patrons in Early China.": Rouzer, Morgan, Comparative Literature, 58:1 (Winter 2006), 59-69, 2006.

Courses

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Courses

• ALL 5343 Lovers, Clowns, and Acrobats: An Introduction to Chinese Drama
• ALL 5920 Buddhism and Literature: China and Japan
• ALL 3265W The Fantastic in East Asia: Ghosts, Foxes, and the Alien [LITR, WI]
• ALL 3232W "Short" Poetry in China and Japan [WI]
• ALL 1201 Arrow, Fist, and Sword: Conceptions of the Hero in Asian Cultures [GP, LITR]
• ALL 1335W Chinese Ways of Living: Philosophical and Literary Approaches
• ALL 1905 Freshman Seminar: Buddhism in Literature and Film
• ALL 3001 Reading Asian Cultures
• ALL 3333 Gender and Sexuality in Traditional Chinese Literature
• ALL 3377 A Thousand Years of Buddhism in China: Beliefs, Practices, and Culture
• ALL 5265 Traditional Poetics and Aesthetics in East Asia