Japanese Studies Teaching Staff
Dr Anna Andreeva
Contact Information
Email: ava22@cam.ac.uk
Tel: 01223 338589
Current Position
The Margaret Smith Research Fellow in Japanese Religions
Biographical Details
Anna Andreeva received her BA from the Irkutsk Linguistic University in Siberia in 1997, where she was trained as translator in Japanese and English. She lived in Japan in 1998-2001 where she accomplished her MA in Japanese classical literature at Kanazawa University. Anna received her MPhil (2002) and PhD (2006) at Cambridge University, where she worked on the issues of esoteric Buddhism and Shinto in medieval Japan, before being awarded a postdoc at Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard for 2006-2007. She is currently a research fellow at Girton College.
Research Interests
Anna Andreeva specializes in Japanese religions of the medieval and early modern periods, particularly, the relationship between esoteric Buddhism and kami worship, formation and development of combinatory worship at individual sacred sites, esoteric rituals, the economy of the sacred, myth, the culture of secret transmissions, and early modern visions of religions in Japan.
She has delivered a number of talks on medieval Shinto at the EAJS conference in Vienna, at SOAS (London), Harvard, Columbia University and is now working on her manuscript on Miwaryu Shinto. Anna is an external member of the Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions at SOAS, and a member of the American Academy of Religion, Association of Asian Studies, European Association of Japanese Studies.
Publications
| 2006 | 'Saidaiji Monks and Esoteric Kami Worship at Ise and Miwa', Japanese Journal of Religious Studies |
Anna is currently working on her first book manuscript and a number of projects for the forthcoming publication.
