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East Asian Graduate Students
| Kenneth Berthel | |  Ken is studying the philosophical debates of pre-Buddhist China, particularly those related to philosophy of language, cosmology (Heaven/Earth/Man), epistemology, and ritual, as well as music and music-related material culture. Additionally, Ihe is interested in classical Chinese language, translation studies, and interpretive theory. |
| | Kerou (Carol) Chang | | Kerou is doing her research on Republican Chinese women's literature,
especially Eileen Chang, as well as contemporary Taiwanese literature. More
specifically, she is interested in the translation of Republican Chinese values and
literary styles in contemporary Taiwanese novels, and how Taiwanese authors
sought to find a cultural identity from the various cultures that had colonized them.
She also studies the theory of translation between languages, media (film and
literature), and cultures. |
| | Tieniu Cheng | |  Tieniu's main research interest is in modern Chinese literature and culture, with a specific focus on women intellectuals, gender issues, and cross-cultural interactions between China and America. |
| | Hyonhui Choe | |  Hyonhui Choe's specialized field is modern Korean literature in colonial period. He is working on Korean literary critics and historians whose academic backgrounds are based on Keijo Imperial University. This project evolves around multi-layered theoretical issues, such as collaboration with colonialism or fascism and the discursive tension between politics/ethics and aesthetics/literature. He is also interested in literary modernism, post-colonialism, translation theories, and psychoanalytical theories. |
| | Angela Covalt | |  Angela has wide-ranging interests in modern Japanese literature,
particularly where literature is used as a means of social and political
engagement and critique in times of real or perceived crisis. This
includes, but is certainly not limited to, topics such as postwar atomic
bomb literature and prewar Leftist literature. Accordingly, she is also
concerned with the reactions garnered by these works and the historical
frameworks surrounding them. |
| | Michael Cronin | |  Michael's research interests include modern Japanese literature,
cultural studies, and critical theory. His dissertation concerns the
city in trans-war literature. |
| | LeRon Harrison | |  LeRon's focus is on premodern Japanese literature, specifically Japanese court poetry and its relation to and adaptation of Chinese poetics. He is currently writing his dissertation on kasen (poetic immortals) and the deployment of the term over the history of Japanese court poetry. |
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| | Yun Jong Lee | |  Yun-Jong is interested in Asian cultural studies, feminist film theory, postcolonial thought and the idea of national cinema in relation to nationalism. She is currently working on her dissertation on South Korean films in 1970s and 1980s, most of which are often categorized as "erotic cinema." Concurrently, she has an interest in Japanese pink cinema and European erotic "art" films. |
| | Hsin-chieh Li | | |
| | Jessica Likens | | | Jessica is primarily studying Korean film, with specific interests in gender issues and depictions of violence against female bodies. She is also interested in modern Korean literature and culture. |
| | Yuan Liu | | |
| | Kazuko Osada | |  Kazuko's research interests include modern Japanese literature and
cultural studies, gender and translation theory, and colonial and
postcolonial studies with an emphasis on the Japanese empire in East
Asia (China, Korea, Taiwan). Her dissertation concerns literature written
in Manchukuo. |
| | Jesse Palmer | |  Jesse's research area is premodern East Asian comparative cultural studies, particularly the early Japanese appropriation of Chinese culture. His dissertation research focuses on the Heian monk Ennin's journal of his travels in Tang China in the 9th c.. Although Ennin's journal has mostly been used as a historical resource for late Tang China, Jesse interprets the journal in its Heian context, focusing on what it says about the cultural relationship of the Heian court to the Tang. |
| | Hyun Seon Park | |  Hyun Seon's research interests include East Asian cinemas, modern Korean visual culture and writings, memory, space, corporeality, postcolonial feminism, and critical theories. She is currently writing her dissertation on the trajectory of Korean modernism. Asking how the aesthetic and cultural form of space, body, and modern everydayness has been articulated at a moment of crisis in Korean history, her dissertation deals with the problematic relationship within the binary set of concepts such as memory/history, art/mass culture, the interior/the exterior, city/country, expression/representation, the sublime/the grotesque, and so on. |
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| | Christine Wiley | | | Christine is studying modern Japanese literature with a particular interest in atomic bomb literature, women's literature, and film studies. Her dissertation is focusing on an examination of representations of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in literature and film. |
| | Huili Zheng | |  Huili is interested in premodern Chinese narrative, narrative theory,
intellectual and cultural history of late imperial China. |
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