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Prof. Dr. Anna Andreeva
Prof. Dr. Anna Andreeva
anna.andreeva@ugent.be
Department
Department of Languages and Cultures
Research group(s)
BOCULT - Centre for Research on Body Cultures in Motion
GCBS - Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies
Curriculum Vitae
pdf
Research Focus
Area studies
History
Religion
Research Period
Middle Ages
Research Region
Far East
Research Language
Japanese
Research Methodology
Field research
Language and text analysis
Additional tags
Japanese language and culture
Tabgroup
Projects
Projects as supervisor
Japanese gods in Belgium
(
2025
-
2030
)
Translation of the Japanese engi 縁起 texts
(
2025
-
2030
)
Buddhism, medicine, and gender in premodern Japan
(
2021
-
2026
)
Medicine and religion in early modern Japan. An investigation of Edo period five viscera (gozō 五臓) - Acumoxa (shinkyū 針灸) manuscripts
(
2021
-
2025
)
Religion, medicine, and women's health in premodern East Asia
(
2020
-
2024
)
Projects as co-supervisor
The Huayan World of Yongming Yanshou: Uses of the Huayan jing and Huayan Commentaries in the Zongjing lu
(
2025
-
2029
)
A study of Dunhuang mourning texts (哀祭文) and their transmission to Japan with a focus on linguistics and codicological features
(
2023
-
2027
)
Publications
Most recent publications
Andreeva, Anna. “Secret Knowledge on Childbirth and Women’s Reproductive Health in Early Medieval Japan.”
EASTERN BUDDHIST. THIRD SERIES
, vol. 5, no. 1–2, 2026, pp. 19–46, doi:10.15070/0002001505.
Andreeva, Anna. “Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism, by Aaron P. Proffitt.”
JOURNAL OF RELIGION IN JAPAN
, vol. 14, no. 1, 2025, pp. 80–85, doi:10.1163/22118349-01401004.
Andreeva, Anna. “Making Babies in Ninth- and Tenth-Century Japan : Change and Diversity in Buddhist and Medical Formulas for Aiding Conception.”
ASIAN MEDICINE
, edited by Anna Andreeva, vol. 20, no. 2, 2025, pp. 282–311, doi:10.1163/15734218-12341592.
Andreeva, Anna. “Religion, Medicine, and Women’s Health in Premodern East Asia.”
ASIAN MEDICINE
, edited by Anna Andreeva, vol. 20, no. 2, 2025, pp. 175–83, doi:10.1163/15734218-12341588.
Andreeva, Anna. “Knowledge Production.”
The New Nanzan Guide to Japanese Religions
, edited by Matthew D. McMullen and Jolyon Baraka Thomas, University of Hawaii Press, 2024, pp. 27–37.
Full bibliography
Teaching
Masterproefseminarie (Japanese Studies)
Classical Japanese: Language, Text and Context 1
Classical Japanese: Language, Text and Context 2