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Christina Laffin

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Associate Professor | Classical JapaneseDepartment of Asian StudiesUniversity of British Columbia

Christina Laffin

Associate Professor | Classical Japanese

Department of Asian Studies

University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 SSHRC), most recently in 2019.

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Medieval travel diaries women’s education and socialization before 1600 poetic practices and waka culture theories of travel gender and autobiography noh theatre and comparative approaches to medieval literature

Latest funding

Amplifying the Premodern in Japanese Studies: Modules for Teaching and Public Access
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
$49,752
Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$150,000
From the ground up: East Asian religions through multi-media sources and interdisciplinary perspectives
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
$2,496,476

All 8 grants and awards

Amplifying the Premodern in Japanese Studies: Modules for Teaching and Public Access

Principal investigatorSSHRC2019Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Laffin, Christina

Keywords: premodern Japan; language; literature; narrative; history; art history; material culture: pedagogy; public outreach

$49,752

Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Laffin, Christina

Keywords: women writers, medieval japan, premodern literature, social mobility, women?s education, women?s history

$150,000

From the ground up: East Asian religions through multi-media sources and interdisciplinary perspectives

Co-investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Grants

Keywords: East Asian religions; interdisciplinary studies; Buddhism; folk religions; Shinto; Daoism; China; Japan; Korea; Vietnam

$2,496,476

Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Laffin, Christina

Keywords: women writers; medieval Japan; premodern literature; social mobility; women¿s education; women¿s history

$350,000

From the ground up: East Asian religions through multi-media sources and interdisciplinary perspectives

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Partnership Grants

Keywords: East Asian religions; interdisciplinary studies; Buddhism; folk religions; Shinto; Daoism; China; Japan; Korea; Vietnam

$19,860

Women's education in Japan, 1100-1400

Principal investigatorSSHRC2012Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Laffin, Christina

Keywords: women; literature; education; socialization; medieval; wet nurse; court; salon; marriage; nunhood

$114,425

Canada Research Chair in Premodern Literature and Culture

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Laffin, Christina

Keywords: diaries, gender, literary production, medieval history, poetry, travel, wet nurses, women’s education.

$500,000

Women on the road: gender, politics, and poetry in Japanese medieval travel diaries

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Laffin, Christina

Keywords: travel; women; medieval; diaries; poetry; politics; gender; Japan; court; conventions; geography; landscape; marriage; property; inheritance; mobility; economics

$75,190

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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