Norma Field

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Norma M. Field is an author and emeritus professor of East Asian studies at the University of Chicago. She taught Premodern Japanese poetry and prose, the Japanese language, and gender studies related to Japanese women. Her work focuses on Japanese literature (classical and modern), feminism, and translation.

Field was born in Tokyo shortly after World War II to an American father and a Japanese mother. She grew up in Tokyo, attended school in the Washington Heights District, and finished high school at the American School in Japan. After graduation, she moved to the United States and earned a BA in European Studies from Pitzer College. She earned a master's degree from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1988.