Erick DuPree is a literary anthropologist, translator, and author specializing in pre-feudal Japan and classical Japanese court literature.
Study The Tale of Genji
A Guided Course in Slow, Attentive Reading
Erick DuPree writes fiction, conducts research, and teaches accessible courses drawn from the literature, diaries, and lived worlds of Heian and premodern Japan.
His work explores religious pluralism and marriage politics in eleventh-century court culture, examining how literature, ritual, and daily life shaped power, desire, gender, and selfhood.
Through his translation of The Court Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, DuPree brings women’s voices at court into sharper focus, tracing the enduring cultural force of their writing. His fiction series, Splendor and Longing at the Heian Court, transforms classical women’s texts into erotic literary novellas that treat desire, constraint, and authorship as lived experience.
