Tim Wixted is an Emeritus Professor of Asian languages at Arizona State University, where he taught Chinese and Japanese languages and literatures for 26 years. He is the author of four books and translator of a fifth. His most recent work is "A Handbook to Classical Japanese" (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell East Asia Series, 2006).
His research interests include traditional Chinese poetry and poetics, Japanese language and literature, Sino-Japanese cultural relations, comparative literature and East Asian bibliography.