Cheryl Crowley studies the literature of premodern Japan, specializing in the popular verse form haikai (ancestor of modern haiku) of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is also interested in the visual culture of Japan and the poetry and art of premodern China. Her book, Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival (Brill, 2007) explores the intersections of poetry and visual art, elite and popular culture. Recently her research has focused on the work of women haikai poets in early modern Japan (1603-1868).