Publications:
“Postcolonial Feminist Perspectives on the Academy: The Case of Religious Studies,” in Musa Dube and Althea Spencer Miller, ed., Postcolonial and Feminist Perspectives on African Religions: Essays in Honor of Kathleen O'Brien Wicker , Forthcoming, Palgrave.
“The Racial and Colonial Politics of the Modern Object of Knowledge: Cautionary Notes on ‘Scripture,'” Scriptures: A Complex Social-Cultural Phenomenon , ed. Vincent Wimbush, Signifying (On) Scriptures 1, Forthcoming, Rutgers University Press.
2003 “Institutionalizing Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Study: A Case Study from Pitzer College ,” Association for Integrative Studies Newsletter , 25.1 (March):1-6.
Zen Buddhist Landscape Arts of Early Muromachi Japan (1336-1573).
Available March, 1999. A volume in the State University of New York Press
(www.sunypress.edu) series in Buddhist Studies, Matthew
Kapstein, editor. 302 pages. $24.95 paperback, ISBN 0-7914-3910-0; $74.95
hardcover, ISBN 0-7914-3909-7. Examining inscriptions on landscape paintings
and related documents, this book explores the "two jewels" of Japanese
Five Mountains Zen literature, Gido Shushin (1325-1388) and Zekkai Chushin
(1336-1405), and their students. These monks played important roles as
advisors to the shoguns Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358-1408) and Yoshimochi
(1386-1428), as well as to major figures in various michi or Ways
of linked verse, the No theatre, ink painting, rock gardens, and other
Zen arts. By applying images of mountain retreats to their busy urban lives
in the capital, these Five Mountain Zen monks provoke reconsiderations
of the relation between secular and sacred and nature and culture.
"Contested Orthodoxies in Five Mountains Zen Buddhism," in Religions
of Japan in Practice,
ed. George Tanabe, Jr.,
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.
"Attaining Landscapes in the Mind: Nature Poetry and Painting in Gozan
Zen," Monumenta
Nipponica, 52.2 (Summer
1997): 235-57.
"Kenchoji" and "Daito Kokushi (1282-1337)," in The Dictionary of
Art, ed. Jane Shoaf Turner,
London: MacMillan Publishers
Limited, 1996.
"The Hermit at Court: Reclusion in Early Fifteenth Century Japanese
Buddhism,"
Journal of Japanese Studies,
21.1 (1995): 103-20.
"Eifuku Mon’in," "Nakatsukasa no Naishi," and "Junii Tameko," in Japanese
Women Writers: A
Bio-Critical Source Book,
ed. Chieko Mulhern, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press,
1992, p. 27-40, 160-73, &
267-74.