Erick DuPree is a literary anthropologist, translator, and author specializing in pre-feudal Japan and classical Japanese court literature.

He writes fiction, conducts research, and annually facilitates the Year of Genji Reading Group, drawing on the literature, diaries, and lived worlds of Heian and premodern Japan.

Erick’s scholarship focuses on religious pluralism and marriage politics in eleventh-century Japan, with attention to how literature, ritual, and everyday court life shaped power, desire, gender, and selfhood. Through his translation of The Court Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, he foregrounds women’s voices at court and the lasting cultural work of their writing.

His fiction series, Splendor and Longing at the Heian Court, reimagines classical Japanese women’s texts as lived social experience through erotic literary novellas.