Charlotte Eubanks is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies at Penn State and the head of the University’s department of Comparative Literature. They are author of Miracles of Book and Body: Buddhist Textual Culture and Medieval Japan (U of California P, 2011) and The Art of Persistence: Akamatsu Toshiko and the Visual Cultures of Transwar Japan (U of Hawai’i P, 2020). Their third book will return to the medieval Buddhist world with a phenomenological examination of the literary corpus of the thirteenth century Zen master Dōgen. They are also Associate Editor for the journal Verge: Studies in Global Asias (University of Minnesota Press).