Paul S. Atkins is professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle.  His specialization is the literature, drama, and culture of medieval Japan.  
Publications include the monographs Teika: The Life and Works of a Medieval Japanese Poet (University of Hawai’i Press, 2017) and Revealed Identity:  The Noh Plays of Komparu Zenchiku (Center of Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 2006).  
Professor Atkins was awarded the Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize by Cornell University in 2021 and the William F. Sibley Memorial Translation Prize by the University of Chicago in 2011.