On November 24^th Michelle Crowson successfully defended her dissertation, “Before the World: Kaga no Chiyo and the Rustic-Feminine Margins of Japanese Haiku.” Her thesis was supervised by Professor Glynne Walley (East Asian Languages and Literatures).

Crowson was also the recipient of the 2019 Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize in Japanese Literature, Thought, and Society. The award recognized Crowson’s translation of Akiko Akazome’s The Maiden’s Betrayal (Otome no mikkoku). The translation was funded by grants from the Oregon Center for Translation Studies and the Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship.