Public talk: Stranger in the Shogun’s City: From the Archive to the Page

Professor Amy Stanley (History, Northwestern University) will be speaking from 3:30-5 p.m. April 8, 308 Grant Hall, on “Stranger in the Shogun’s City: From the Archive to the Page,” as part of the East Asian Humanities and Cultures talk series hosted by the UIC Department of Linguistics.

Stanley is the Orrington Lunt Professor of History at Northwestern University. Primarily a social historian of early modern and modern Japan, she has special interests in global history, women’s and gender history, and narrative. She is the author of “Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan” (UC Press 2012), as well as articles in the American Historical Review, The Journal of Japanese Studies and The Journal of Asian Studies. Her most recent book, “Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World”(Scribner, 2020), won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Biography and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She received her PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard in 2007, and she has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is currently at work on a narrative history of Japan from 1582 to 1945.

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