Marjorie听Burge
- Assistant Professor of Japanese

Marjorie Burge received a BA in Asian Studies and Japanese from the George Washington University, and an MA and PhD from the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures at UC Berkeley.
Marjorie鈥檚 current book project, titled Unearthing Written Cultures of Early Korea and Japan, explores writing in the Korean kingdoms of Paekche (ca. third century CE-660CE) and Silla (ca. third century CE-935CE) and early Japan through inscriptions on wood slips known as mokkan. In addition to research on mokkan, Marjorie is working on projects related to the eighth-century Japanese poetry anthology 惭补苍鈥檡艒蝉丑奴 and fragments of documents from the kingdom of Paekche preserved in the early Japanese history Nihon shoki.
Publications:
- 鈥淰isions of the Eastland: Reading the Azuma uta of 惭补苍鈥檡艒蝉丑奴.鈥 Japanese Language and Literature 58.2 (2024): 79-113.
- 鈥淲ooden Inscriptions and the Culture of Writing in Sabi Paekche.鈥 Asian Perspectives 58.1 (Spring 2019): 47-73.
Translations:
- Lee SeungJae, 鈥淒eveloping a Terminology for Pre-hangeul Korean Transcription.鈥 Scripta 8 (October 2016): 25-71.
- Kin Bunky艒, Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, 2021 (co-translator)
Research Interests:
Pre-modern Japanese literature and culture, Pre-modern Korean literature and culture, early inscriptions, vernacular writing systems, vernacular literature, archaeology of proto/early historic Japan and Korea, waka poetry, Silla hyangga, 惭补苍鈥檡艒蝉丑奴, elegiac verse, women鈥檚 diary literature