Biography
Research Interests
Origins, structure, and development of the literary field
Reception and uses of Sinitic culture in Japan
Waka poetry and poetics
Medieval, early-modern, and modern reception of Heian literature
East Asian literary cultures
History of East-West encounters
Education
PhD Columbia University
Courses Taught
EALC 398 Writers and Sino-Japanese Cultural Interaction 600-1900
EALC/CWL 275 Masterpieces of East Asian Literature
EALC 305 Premodern Japanese Literature in Translation I
JAPN 407 Introduction to Classical Japanese
JAPN 408 Readings in Classical Japanese
EALC/CWL 230 Popular Cultures of Contemporary East Asia
EALC 199 Adaptation and Appropriation in Japanese Cultural History
EALC 550 - Itineraries in Waka Culture
Additional Campus Affiliations
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Assistant Professor, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Recent Publications
Persiani, G. P., Laffin, C., & Heldt, G. (Accepted/In press). Waka Culture and Japan: Beginnings to Modern Times. Brill.
Persiani, G. P. (2025). Poets, Patrons, and the Public: Poetry as Cultural Phenomenon in Courtly Japan. (Brill's Japanese Studies Library; Vol. 81). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004742161
Persiani, G. P. (2020). Poems to Unite and Poems to Divide: What Audience Reactions Reveal About the Social Functions of Heian Waka. Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies, 21, 16-27. Article 2. https://journals.library.brandeis.edu/index.php/PAJLS/article/view/1640/1028
Persiani, G. P. (2020). The Public, the Private, and the In-Between: Poetry Exchanges as Court Diplomacy in Mid-Heian Japan. Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 35, 7. https://doi.org/10.15055/00007600
Persiani, G. P. (2016). China as Self, China as Other: On Ki no Tsurayuki's Use of the wa-kan Dichotomy. Sino-Japanese Studies, 23, 31-58. Article 2. https://chinajapan.org/pages/23.0-china-as-self-china-as-other.html