Canadian historian
Christina Laffin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is also a Canada Research Chair in premodern Japanese literature and culture, and co-director at the Centre for Japanese Research.
Her research interests include 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.
Education.
Laffin received her B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1996. Following this, she spent a year at the University of Shiga Prefecture as a Monbushō Research Student in Women's History. She then studied at the University of Tokyo, receiving her M.A. in Japanese Literature in 1999. From there, she attended Columbia University where she completed her Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Japanese Literature. During her time in the program, she spent two years at the University of Tokyo as a foreign research scholar at the Historiographical Institute.