Rate My Professor Matthieu Felt

Felt’s research centers on mythology and myth reception, historiography, narratology, intellectual history, literary and religious canonization, commentarial practice, vernacularization, national and origin myths, borders and frontiers, and translation. His major monograph, Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan, was published by the Harvard University Asia Center in 2023. Key publications include “Nihongi Banquet Poetry: Rewriting Japanese Myth in Verse” in Monumenta Nipponica (2021), the translation and introduction of “Tale of the Dirt Spider” in Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales (Columbia University Press, 2018), and “Shiratori Kurakichi to Tsuda Sōkichi no shinwa ninshiki” (2018). He is currently translating the two-volume Chronicles of Japan (Nihon shoki) for Oxford University Press, supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Individual Fellowship in 2022. Among his awards are the Japan Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship (2013–2014), multiple Lord Ito Shinjo Fellowships from Columbia University, and the Asada Eiji B.A. Thesis Prize from the University of Chicago. Felt teaches courses such as Japanese Frontiers, Monsters and Horror in Japan, Samurai War Tales, and Introduction to Japanese Culture, and has served on the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Finance Committee.