Office Arts 3S12
Tel +64 3 479 9030
Email roy.starrs@otago.ac.nz
Associate Professor Roy Starrs specialises in Japanese literature, culture, and intellectual history; comparative literature, and culture.
Teaching
- JAPA 242/342 Understanding Japanese Culture
- JAPA 243/343 Issues in Japanese Culture Today
- JAPA 244/344 Modern Japanese Fiction
- ASIA 101 Introducing Asia
- ASIA 301 Topics in Asian Studies
Research
- Shinto and Buddhism in Japanese literature
- Comparative study of Buddhist and Christian mysticism
- Expressionism in Japanese and Western modernist art