Team

Rebecca Corbett is Associate University Librarian and Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southern California. Her book Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2018) analyzes privately circulated and commercially published texts to show how chanoyu tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted from the eighteenth through early twentieth centuries. She is currently researching early Western involvement in chanoyu tea practice during the Meiji period (1868-1912).

Michelle Liu Carriger is an Associate Professor in Theater & Performance Studies at UCLA. Her current research project involves transferring more than twenty years of tea practice into her second monograph using performance studies paradigms to understand chanoyu as embodied knowledge and culture. Her first book, Theatricality of the Closet, examined clothing controversies in 19th century Britain and Japan. She holds a PhD from Brown University, an MA from University of Colorado, Boulder, and her writing has been awarded the Gerald Kahan and ATHE Outstanding Article prizes.

Millie Creighton is an anthropologist, Japan specialist, and Asianist in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, where she was one of the founders of the Centre for Japanese Research. She has done extensive research in Japan on department stores, consumerism, tourism, popular culture, gender, minorities and marginalization, work, leisure, identity and Chanoyu (the Way of Tea). She created the first university credit course in Canada on the Japanese Tea Ceremony. She has served for many years as Vice-President of the Vancouver area Chanoyu Association.

ブルース・宗整・濱名は裏千家学園茶道専門学校の留学生研究コース「みどり会」の担当を2003年から2015年まで務めた。2020年には「英語で伝える茶の湯の銘100」という本を著し、現在は72候に関する本の共著や、日本美学の教科書において茶の湯の季節感に関する章を寄稿している。外国人と日本人の生徒向けに茶の湯の稽古場を持ち、中・高等教育機関や専門学校で茶の湯を教えている。

Nancy Sōkei Hamilton is Lecturer in Stanford University’s Bing Overseas Studies Program. She researches the literary, material, and ethical aspects of tea practice and is author of a forthcoming essay on tea aesthetics entitled, "Chill-ing Out in the Tearoom – Hie, Omokage, and the Subtle Art of Connection in Chanoyu." As an instructor of chanoyu, she has led numerous presentations and workshops for university and secondary students. She holds an MA degree in East Asian Studies from Stanford, where she currently advises Stanford Sadō, a student club dedicated to tea practice.

Janet Ikeda is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at Washington and Lee University.  At W&L she began teaching a course on chanoyu in 2002. The Senshin'an tearoom was built in 2006 and named by Sen Genshitsu in 2011. She is working on two translations, an article relating the teaching of tea to museum collections, and has begun a podcast "Wind in the Pod: Through a Tearoom Window."  Her primary teaching interests are in language and literature.

Meghen Jones is Associate Professor of Art History at the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University. Her research centers on modern Japanese art, design, and global flows of ceramics. She curated the 2021-22 Alfred Ceramic Art Museum exhibition Path of the Teabowl, accompanied by an online conference and a forthcoming multi-author book. Recent publications include Ceramics and Modernity in Japan, co-edited with Louise Allison Cort. She teaches courses on East Asian material culture, Japanese art, and several ceramics history courses.

Sol Jung is the inaugural Shirley Z. Johnson Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, where she stewards the museum's collection of pre-modern, modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics, lacquerware, metalwork, and tea utensils, which together number over 3,000 works. She has examined the sixteenth-century reception of Korean tea bowls, called kōrai chawan in Japan, through analysis of period tea documents, literary texts, and archaeological data from maritime settlement sites across the Japanese archipelago.

Kristopher Kersey is associate professor of art history at UCLA. His research focuses on the histories of Japanese art, literature, and aesthetics. His work spans the premodern and modern, including both secular and Buddhist materials, theory, historiography, European encounters, death and manuscript culture, and archival anxieties of the Anthropocene. His forthcoming book Facing Images: Medieval Japanese Art and the Problem of Modernity (2024) critiques global modernity by focusing on issues such as montage, interface theory, physiology, and semiotics in the secular and Buddhist manuscripts of twelfth-century Japan.

Christina Laffin researches and teaches premodern Japanese literature as an associate professor at the University of British Columbia. With a team of graduate students she has co-created the educational video series Exploring Premodern Japan. Her publications include a study of the life and works of the medieval poet and educator Abutsu-ni; a collaborative translation on the role Literary Sinitic poetry and prose played in modern Japanese; and a bilingual collection on the noh play Ominameshi. She is translating a 14th-century letter/career guide for women while learning about ecoculture and narrative.

Melinda "Mindy" Landeck is associate professor of East Asian Studies at Austin College, a private liberal arts college in Texas. Her research engages the historical practice of tea by Japan's warrior elites and early modern aesthetics discourse. She has a long history of adapting tea culture and Japanese aesthetics into curricula targeted at secondary educators. She is currently at work on an edited volume on Japanese aesthetics.

ライアンバーガー　ルース（宗心）は、2000年より裏千家にて茶の湯を学んでいます。関東地方で個人教授やセミナーを通じて茶の湯を教えています。15年間東京のレイクランド大学で教養課程の助教授として教鞭をとり、批判的思考（クリティカルシンキング）他、基礎科目を教えています。2023年より4単位を得られる講義：「Chanoyu：The Way of Tea」を始めました。裏千家の准教授の資格を持っています。

Morgan Pitelka is Bernard L. Herman Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, with joint positions in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of History. His most recent publication is Reading Medieval Ruins: Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan (2022). His scholarship focuses on the history of late medieval and early modern Japan, with an emphasis on material culture, environmental history, and urban history. His new project is an environmental history of 17th-century Kyoto.

Eric C. Rath is a professor of history at the University of Kansas where he teaches courses on food history and premodern Japan.  A specialist in traditional Japanese foodways, his books include Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan (2010), Japan's Cuisines: Food, Place and Identity (2016), and Oishii: The History of Sushi (2021).  He is a member of the editorial collective of Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, and he is currently completing a book on the history of sake.

Joseph T. Sorensen is Associate Professor of Japanese at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Optical Allusions: Screens, Paintings, and Poetry in Classical Japan (2012). In addition to his continuing research on waka poetry and literary criticism, he serves as Director of the Japan Children’s Home Internship Program (JCHIP), which sends undergraduates to volunteer over summer at orphanage homes throughout Japan. He often runs a study-abroad program in Kyoto, and as a leading member of the UC Davis Global Tea Institute, he helps organize events, curricula, and research collaborations on all aspects of the study of tea.

Ariel Stilerman is Assistant Professor of Premodern Japanese Literature at Stanford. He earned his Ph.D. in Japanese literature from Columbia University and has trained in diverse fields such as the Tea Ceremony, Clinical Psychoanalysis, and Industrial Design. His current project examines medieval illustrated narratives, poetic contests, and encyclopedic works to explore how changes in knowledge, authority, and technology can create opportunities for the construction of new shared cultural networks in the aftermath of natural disasters and social upheaval.

Lindsey Stirek is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Studio Art and Assistant Director to Japan House at University of Illinois. She teaches courses on manga, anime and Japanese arts. In 2021, Lindsey and her Urasenke teacher, Kimiko Gunji, developed an innovative, interactive eText for Lindsey's online chadō course. Lindsey's current research focuses on how indigenous knowledge and sustainable practices can inform and ground traditional Japanese arts in contemporary and localized contexts.

オレゴン大学美術史建築史学科准教授。古代日本仏教美術史、近世古筆収集、日本美術史の脱植民地化などについて出版。縄文時代から現代美術までの講義を幅広く担当。今学期（2024年春学期）は「茶の湯の美」を題材に大学生・院生向けのゼミを開講中。