Bonnie McClure

Bonnie studies the history of Japanese poetry from early song through Edo-period haikai, and enjoys theoretical approaches including psychoanalysis, affect theory, narratology, and ecocriticism. She is writing her dissertation on tragic narrative archetypes in 8th-century myth and poetry. Before coming to Berkeley, Bonnie received a B.A. in classical piano performance from Birmingham-Southern College and an M.A. in Japanese literature from the University of Washington. She also spent several years at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo studying medieval waka and renga, interests she will return to in future projects.