Dr. Margaret H. "Maggie "Childs
Associate Professor

East Asian Language and Cultures

Office: 2114 Wescoe
Phone: 785 864-9128
Fax: 785 864-4298
E-Mail: mgchilds@ku.edu

Date Appointed: 1987

Previous Appointments:

EALC Acting Chair, 2003, 2002; Acting Director CEAS, 2001; Acting Director Women‘s Studies, 2001;
Visiting Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Michigan; Shincho Visiting Prof. of Japanese Lit., Columbia Univ., 1995; EALC Dept. Chair, 1990-96; Director, Summer Study Abroad at Kanagawa Univ. ‘90, ‘96, ‘00, ‘01, ‘03; Asst. Prof. S. Illinois Univ., 1983-87

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Japanese literature, Ph.D., 1983
Columbia University, Japanese Studies, M.A., 1978
Gettysburg College, History, B.A., 1972

Languages:

Japanese

Overseas Experience:

Japan

Courses:

Modern Japanese; Pre-Modern Japanese Literature; Classical Japanese; Japanese Cultural Traditions; Understanding China & Japan; Asian Autobiographies

Research Statement:

Premodern Japanese narrative fiction, specifically religious ideology in literature, gender and courtship practices

Awards and Distinctions:

W.T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence 2003;
1991 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for Translation, administered by the Donald Keene Center, Columbia University; KU Woman Teacher Award;
SIU CLAS Outstanding Teacher Award

Outreach, Consulting, and Other Activities Outside the University:

Language Pedagogy Background: over 20 years teaching language; language training at University of Pennsylvania and at Middlebury College; attended oral proficiency testing demonstration.

References

Childs, Margaret H. 1999. The Value of Vulnerability: Sexual Coercion and the Nature of Love in Japanese Literature. Journal of Asian Studies 58(0): .

Childs, Margaret H. 1998. Genji, At Least, Was Not a Rapist: The Nature of Love and the Parameters of Sexual Coercion in the Literature of the Heian Court. Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studie 4(0): .

Childs, Margaret H. 1990. Rethinking Sorrow: Revelatory Tales from Late Medieval Japan . Univ. of Michigan: Center for Japanese Studies.

Mailing Address:	983 East 1000 Road
	Lawrence, Kansas, 66047

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