Graduate Students
Current Students
Please note that many of the dissertation titles listed here are tentative.
Nicholas Albertson
nea@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Katherine Alexander
klalexander@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Xavier Bensky
xbensky@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Brian Bergstrom
brbergst@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Interests: Contemporary Japan and the role of youth crime in the social imaginary.
Dissertation title: "Young Boys Doing Terrible Things: Youth, Crime, and Culture in Heisei Japan."
Max Bohnenkamp
maxb@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Ideologies and Images of “the Folk” in the Literature, Art, and Film of PRC; Theories, Histories, and Practices of Folk, Popular, and Mass Culture in China and the World; Marxist, Nationalist, and Post-Modern Theories, Histories, and Practices of Literature, Art, and Culture; Traditional, Modern, and Contemporary Chinese Literature and Art.
Music, Film, and Oral Performance; Critical Theory.
Ernest Caldwell
pec@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Early China
Wei-Ti Chen
wdchen@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China/Japan
Heekyoung Cho
hcho@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Korea
Interests: The reception of Russian literature in colonial Korea via Japan.
Emily Chung
emily2@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Mika Endo
endo@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Interests: The development of writing education, life-writing, and realism in modern Japan.
Research topic: Life Composition Movement (seikatsu tsuzurikata undo) and children's compositions in 1930s Japan.
Helen Findley
hfindley@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Jonathan Glade
jglade@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Korea/Japan
Anup Grewal
agrewal@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Ethan Harkness
harkness@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Kevin Huang
bc551@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Interests: Early China; recently excavated manuscripts.
Tadashi Ishikawa
tadashi@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Justin Jesty
jesty@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Interests: Art and activism in postwar Japan.
Fumiko Joo
fumikoj@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China/Japan
Dissertation Title:
"The Peony Lantern and Fantastic Tales in Late Imperial China and Tokugawa Japan: Local History, Religion and Gender"
Hyun-Ho Joo
hhj@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Ji Young Kim
jiyoung22@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Korea
Rachel Kunze
rkunze@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Hyun-Jeong Lee
hlee@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Jae-Yon Lee
jaelee@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Korea
Yuhang Li
liyuhang@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Daniel Patrick Morgan
dpmorgan@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Early China
Camelia Nakagawara
camelian@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Christopher Oakes
cwoakes@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Interests: The interaction of literature and religion (particularly Buddhism) in Japan, especially in the modern period.
Dissertation title: "Vast Expanse, Nothing Sacred: Natsume Soseki, the Thursday Club, and the Cultural Appropriation of Buddhism"
Hyun Hee Park
hyunhee@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Korean and Japanese Cinema
Hyun Suk Park
hyunsook@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Korea
John Person
jperson@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Anne Rebull
anner@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Adam Schwartz
adam888@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Tomoko Seto
tseto@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Ji Won Shim
jshim@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Korea
George Sipos
gsipos@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Interests: Japanese proletarian literature.
Dissertation title: 'The Narrative as Politics: Kobayashi Takiji, Miyamoto Yuriko and Sata Ineko and the Building of a Proletarian Identity in Japan'
Suyoung Son
son@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Mamiko Suzuki
mcsuzuki@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Research topic: Kishida Toshiko's diaries, women's rights and writing in the late 19th century Japan.
Kathryn Tanaka
ktanaka@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Interests: Illness experience and writing in early twentieth- century Japan, in particular the works of Hojo Tamio and Kajii Motojiro. The many intersections of science and
literature.
Jeffrey Tharsen
jcarlsen@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Early China
Chun Chun Ting
ccting@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Yi Wang
yiwang1@uchicago.edu
Area of study: EALC
Smadar Winter
winter@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Song Xiang
panlune@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Interests: While critically engaging with the modern literary canon, I'm most interested in cinema. Currently I'm focusing on pre-49 cinema, its urban cultural context and the ideological and political forces that shaped it.
Tie Xiao
txiao@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Peng Xu
xupeng@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Yoon Sun Yang
yysys@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Korea/Japan
Lidong Zhang
ldzhang@uchicago.edu
Area of study: China
Yijiang Zhang
yijiangz@uchicago.edu
Area of study: Japan
Interests: Pre-modern and modern Japanese history, Shinto, modernity and nationalism.
