Thomas Keirstead

Biography

He is working as Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the university of Toronto He is working as Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the university of Toronto

Research Interest

I am interested equally in the history of medieval Japanese culture and in the writing of that history. The former interest has found expression in articles on such topics as medieval peasant rebellions and outcast groups, as well as a book, The Geography of Power in Medieval Japan (Princeton). The latter interest has led me into writing about film, anime and print culture and to a book manuscript on Medieval Japan and the Making of a Modern Past (forthcoming). I am currently engaged in writing a cultural history of monsters and the monstrous in medieval Japan, which allows me to read strange stories about wizards and demons, and to indulge an interest in Japanese monster movies.