Linda H. Chance

Linda H. Chance is Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. Her main field is prose of medieval Japan, particularly the random essay form (zuihitsu). She co-edited, with Tetsuko Toda, Phila-Nipponica: An Historic Guide to Philadelphia and Japan (Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia, 2015). They will also co-edit a forthcoming volume on Japan and Philadelphia’s Quaker connections.