Christina Laffin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia.
She is also a Canada Research Chair in premodern Japanese literature and culture, and co-director at the Centre for Japanese Research.
Her research interests include medieval travel diaries; women's education and socialization before 1600; poetic practices and waka culture; theories of travel, gender, and autobiography; noh theatre; and comparative approaches to medieval literature.
Following this, she spent a year at the University of Shiga Prefecture as a Monbushō Research Student in Women's History.
During her time in the program, she spent two years at the University of Tokyo as a foreign research scholar at the Historiographical Institute.