She holds a PhD from UCLA and an MA from the University of Washington. Dr. Chance's publications include Formless in Form: Kenko, Tsurezuregusa, and the Rhetoric of Japanese Fragmentary Prose (Stanford University Press) and "Zuihitsu and Gender: Tsurezuregusa and The Pillow Book," in Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature (Stanford University Press).