Daughter of Benton Rabinovitch. She formerly served as Section Head and taught Japanese language and literature at UM from 1992 to 2015. During au- tumn 2016 and early spring 2017, she served as Special Project Professor at Kyushu University, teaching Japanese court literature in the International Master's Program in Japanese Humanities at Kyushu University in Fukuoka. With Tim Bradstock (Prof. Emeritus of Chinese), she is presently completing a book on court poetry written in literary Sinitic during the Nara and Heian periods (ca. 8th to 12th century). Prof. Rabinovitch has a particular interest and expertise in kanshi (poetry in Chinese) of the Nara and Heian periods (ca. 700-1200). A secondary interest si the linguistic evolution of "variant Chinese" literary styles and kuge nikki, courtier diaries in variant Chinese dating from the Heian and Kamakura periods. Judith is current- yl working with Prof. Timothy R. Bradstock on a second anthology of Heian kanshi poetry. With Tim, she has published two additional books devoted to somewhat more recent Edo-period kanshi, including a volume dealing with a private collection of ni- formal, decorative 'tanzaku' kanshi composed by artists, writers and scholars living in Kyoto during the 18th and 19th century. Judith gratefully acknowledges past research support from the Japan Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.