Alumni
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Ethan Waddell | Listening to South Korean Fiction through Popular Songs, 1950s-1970s Kyeong-Hee Choi |
Assistant Professor of Korean Literature & Culture, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Ling Chan | Manuscripts of the Jade-like Models: A Case Study of a Liturgical Anthology from Dunhuang Paul Copp |
East Asian Studies Librarian, University of California Santa Barbara |
| Yueling Ji | A History of Style: Literary Criticism in Cold War China Paola Iovene |
Teaching Fellow in the Humanities, University of Chicago |
| Susan Dan Su | Infrastructural Promises: Developmentalism and the Rewriting of Tibetan Culture in China Paola Iovene |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Jiayi Chen | Reading Games in Early Modern China Judith Zeitlin |
Assistant Professor, Washington University |
| David Hogue | Historians of Abnormality: Anomaly Discourse in Han Dynasty Political Philosophy and Its Antecedents in Warring States Textual Traditions Edward Shaughnessy |
Visiting Research Fellow, Seoul National University Institute of Asian Studies |
| Alex Murphy | What the Ear Sees: Media, Performance, and the Politics of the Voice in Japan, 1918-1942 Michael Bourdaghs |
Assistant Professor, Clark University, Worcester, MA |
| Emily Yoon | A Feminist Method for Korean and Korean American Women's Poetry, 1987-2019 Kyeong-Hee Choi |
Assistant Professor in Korean Literature, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Philomena Mazza-Hilway | Writ(h)ing Subjecthood: Toward a ‘Feminine Grotesque’ in Modern Japanese Literature Hoyt Long |
Teaching Fellow in the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, University of Chicago |
| Kyle Peters | Kyoto School And Totality: Theories Of Self-Formation In Modern Japanese Philosophy And Aesthetics Michael Bourdaghs |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University (starting August 2023), Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Assistant Professor, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University (starting August 2023), Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Brian White | Speculative Communities: Discourse and the World of Japanese Cold War Science Fiction Michael Bourdaghs |
Assistant Professor of Japanese, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI |
| Yiren Zheng | Sounding Awry: Unusual Voices and the Problem of Speech in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature Judith Zeitlin |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows, Dartmouth College |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Yiying Pan | Symphonic Spaces: Environment, Society, and Governance of Eastern Sichuan, 1723-1864 Kenneth Pomeranz |
Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese History and Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
| Pao-chen Tang | The Animist Imagination of Cinema Tom Gunning |
Lecturer (equiv. Assistant Professor) in Film Studies, University of Sydney |
| Panpan Yang | Animating Space: Toward a Poetics of Chinese Animation Tom Gunning and Wu Hung |
Lecturer (equiv. Assistant Professor) in Arts and Visual Cultures of Modern China at SOAS University of London, |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| William Carroll | The Depths of Flatness and the Voice of Silence: Suzuki Seijun and 1960s Japanese Film Theory Tom Gunning |
Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies, Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta |
| Naixi Feng | City on Edge: Inhabiting Literary Beijing on the Eve of the Manchu Conquest Judith Zeitlin |
Assistant Professor, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China |
| Alíz Horváth | The Dai Nihonshi Phenomenon: Confucianism, Collaboration, and Tradition in Early Modern Japanese History Writing (1657-1906) James Ketelaar |
Assistant Professor, Institute of East Asian Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary |
| So Hye Kim | Impossible Homecoming: Cinematic Returns of Korean Diaspora in Post–Cold War East Asia Kyeong-hee Choi |
Research Professor, Korea University, Seoul |
| David Krolikoski | Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetic Language in Korea Kyeong-Hee Choi |
Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa |
| Nicholas Lambrecht | New Arrivals: Returnee Identity and the Memory of Repatriation in Japanese Literature Michael Bourdaghs |
Assistant Professor of Global Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University |
| David Lebovitz | Historical Poetry, Poetical History, and the Roots of Commentary: Rui Liangfu and the Formation of Early Chinese Texts Edward Shaughnessy |
Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Culture, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
| Yuqian Yan | The Ancient as Enchantment: Cinematic Representation of the Past in Republican China Tom Gunning |
Assistant Professor, Department of Film, Television, and New Media, Zhejiang University |
| Boqun Zhou | Mechanical Metaphors in Early Chinese Thought Edward L. Shaughnessy |
Assistant Professor, The University of Hong Kong, School of Chinese |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Daniela Licandro | Doing Self-Criticism Like a Woman: Writing Life in Socialist China Paola Iovene |
Fixed-term Researcher, Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures & Mediations, University of Milan |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Scott Aalgaard | ‘Homesick Blues’: Crisis, Critique, and Collectivity in Modern Japanese Cultural Production Michael Bourdaghs |
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University, |
| Thomas Kelly | Clawed Skin: The Literary Inscription of Things in Sixteenth Century China Judith Zeitlin |
Junior Fellow, University of Michigan Society of Fellows 2017-2019. Assistant Professor of Pre-modern Chinese Literature, Harvard University, starting 2019., |
| Hyun Hee Park | Tears in the Imperial Screen: Wartime Colonial Korean Cinema 1934–1945 Kyeong-hee Choi |
Lecturer, Smith College, |
| Anne Rebull | Reconstructing the Repertoire from the Stage, Screen, and Page: Xiqu Reform 1937-1959 Judith Zeitlin |
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of China at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan, |
| Joshua Solomon | The Stink of the Earth: Reorienting Discourses of Tsugaru, Furusato, and Place Michael Bourdaghs |
English Lecturer in the Center for Liberal Arts Development and Practices, Hirosaki University, |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Katherine Alexander | Virtues Of The Vernacular: Moral Reconstruction In Late Qing Jiangnan And The Revitalization Of Baojuan Paul Copp, Judith Zeitlin |
Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of CO Boulder, |
| Anne Carlton Buxton | Garden Of Roses: Nisei Women As Collaborators In Transwar Japan James Ketelaar |
CEO, Nessle, Richmond, Virginia |
| Wei-ti Chen | Cosmopolitan Medicine Nationalized: the Making of Japanese State-Empire and Overseas Physicians in a Global World Susan Burns |
Instructor in East Asian History, History Dept, Northern Arizona University, |
| Richard Davis | There Must Be Better Movies than These: Japanese Musicals of the Fifteen Years’ War Michael Bourdaghs |
Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Duke Kunshan University, China |
| Ji Young Kim | Overcome by the Past: Collaboration and Literature of Decolonization in 1945 -1950 Korea Kyeong-hee Choi |
Assistant Professor of Modern Korean Literature, Queens College, CUNY, |
| Junko Yamazaki | Jidaigeki's Postwar: Visions of the Present in Japanese Period Films Michael Bourdaghs and Tom Gunning |
Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA, |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Tadashi Ishikawa | "Families Remade, Empire Reconfigured: Discourse, Law, and Colonial Taiwan in Japan, 1870s-1937." Susan Burns |
Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Central Florida, Orlando, |
| Daniel Johnson | "Interstitial Dimensionalities: Anonymity and Asynchronicity in Contemporary Media Culture." Michael Bourdaghs |
Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary |
| Hyun Suk Park | "The Government Courtesan: Status, Gender, and Performance in Late Chosŏn Korea" Kyeong-hee Choi and Judith Zeitlin |
Assistant Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, |
| Jeffrey Tharsen | Chinese Euphonics: Phonetic Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts Edward Shaughnessy |
Associate Technology Director for Digital Studies, Humanities Division, University of Chicago |
| Chunchun Ting | Reclaiming the City as Home in Postcolonial Hong Kong: Art and Politics in the Contestation of Urban Space (1997-2014) Paola Iovene and Prasenjit Duara |
Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological Universitty, Singapore, |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Max Bohnenkamp | Turning Ghosts into People: The White-Haired Girl, Revolutionary Folklorism and the Politics of Aesthetics in Modern China Paola Iovene |
Book Review Editor, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies |
| Ernest Caldwell | Writing Chinese Laws: The form and function of statutes in Qin legal culture Edward Shaughnessy |
Reader in Chinese Studies, SOAS, University of London , |
| Tomoko Seto | Spectacular Socialism: Politics and Popular Performance in Shitamachi Tokyo, 1904–18 Susan Burns |
Associate Professor of Global Studies, Kobe College, Japan |
| Peng Xu | Lost Sound: Singing, Theater, and Aesthetics in Late Ming China, 1547 -1644 | Assistant Professor of Theatre | Chinese Theatre at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Albertson | Beyond Shasei, Beyond Nature: Idealism and Allusion in the Poetry of Shimazaki Tōson, Doi Bansui, and Yosano Akiko. Michael Bourdaghs |
Assistant Professor of Japanese, Wake Forest University, |
| Jonathan Glade | Occupied Liberation: Transforming Literary Boundaries in Japan and Southern Korea Norma Field |
Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies and Global Studies, Michigan State University , |
| Daniel Morgan | Knowing Heaven: Astronomy, the Calendar, and the Sagecraft of Science in Early Imperial China Donald Harper |
Researcher (CRCN), Centre de recherche sur les civilisations de l’Asie orientale (CRCAO) CNRS |
| Camelia Nakagawara | The Garden in the Eye of the Beholder: Key Scopic-Discursive Paradigms of 'Japanese Gardens' James Ketelaar |
Independent Scholar, |
| Adam Schwartz | Huayuanzhuang East I: A Study And Annotated Translation Of The Oracle Bone Inscriptions Edward Shaughnessy |
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chinese, Hong Kong Baptist U., and Vice Director of the Jao Tsung-i Academy of Sinology, HKBU, |
| George T. Sipos | The Literature of Political Conversion (Tenkō) of Japan Norma Field |
Associate Professor (Conferențiar) of Japanese Language, Literature and Culture (Faculty of Letters, History and Theology) and Founding Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the West University of Timișoara (Romania); Executive Director of Glob, |
| Yi Wang | Transforming the Frontier: Land, Commerce, and Colonization in Inner Mongolia, 1700-1911 Prasenjit Duara |
Associate Professor, Dept. of History, State University of New York at Binghamton , |
| Smadar Winter | Motherhood in Early China Edward Shaughnessy |
Adjunct, Tel Aviv University, Israel , |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Anup Grewal | A Revolutionary Women's Culture: Rewriting Femininity and Women's Experience in China, 1926-1949 Prasenjit Duara |
Assistant Professor in Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, and the Tri-Campus Graduate Department of History, University of Toronto |
| Jae Yon Lee | Magazines and the Collective Rise of Literary Writers in Korea, 1919-1927 | Assistant Profesor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea , |
| John Person | Philosophizing Japan: The Genri Nippon Society and the Question of ‘Japaneseness’ James Ketelaar |
Associate Profesor, SUNY-Albany |
| Kathryn Tanaka | Through the Hospital Gates: Hansen’s Disease and Modern Japanese Literature Norma Field |
Associate Professor, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan, |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Mika Endo | Pedagogical Experiments with Working Class Children in Prewar Japan Norma Field |
Assistant Professor of Japanese, Bard College , |
| Ethan Harkness | Cosmology and the Quotidian: Day Books in Early China Donald Harper |
Associate Professor , New York University |
| Fumiko Joo | "The Peony Lantern" and Fantastic Tales in Late Imperial China and Tokugawa Japan: Local History, Religion and Gender Judith Zeitlin |
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, Mississippi State University |
| Yuhang Li | Gendered Materialization: An Investigation of Women's Artistic and Literary Reproductions of Guanyin in Late Imperial China Judith Zeitlin and Wu Hung |
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Wisonsin, Madison , |
| Mamiko Suzuki | From 'Cosseted Daughters' to Public Actors: Kanbunmyaku and the Transformative Role of Nakajima Shoen's (1861-1901) Speeches, Fiction, and Diaries Norma Field |
Lecturer of Japanese, Rice University, Houston, TX |
| Tie Xiao | In the Name of the Masses: Conceptualizations and Representations of the Crowd in Early Twentieth-Century China Paola Iovene and Prasenjit Duara |
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington, |
| Yijiang Zhong | Gods Without Names: The Genesis of Modern Shinto in Nineteenth Century Japan James Ketelaar and Prasenjit Duara, Co-Chairs |
Professor, Komatsu University, Japan, |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Heekyoung Cho | Literary Translation and Appropriation: Korean Intellectuals’ Reception of Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose via Japan in 1909-1927 Kyeong-hee Choi |
Assistant Professor, Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington |
| Kuan-yun Huang | Warring States &lquo;Echoes&rquo; of the Past Edward Shaughnessy |
Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Tsing Hua University , |
| Justin Jesty | Arts of Engagement: Art and Social Movements in Japan's Early Postwar Michael Raine |
Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Washington , |
| Hyun-Ho Joo | Between Culturalism and Nationalism: Late Qing China's Representation of ChosÅn Korea Prasenjit Duara |
Associate Dean and Professor, East Asian International College, Yonsei University, Korea, |
| Suyoung Son | Writing for Print: Zhang Chao and Literati-Publishing in Seventeenth-Century China Judith Zeitlin |
Assistant Professor, Cornell University , |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Hyun-Jeong Lee | Reimagining the Nation in Manchuria: The Representation of Peasant Collectivity in Chinese and Korean Discourses on the Wanbaoshan Incident (1931) Xiaobing Tang |
Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Culture, University of Seoul, Korea, |
| Yoon Sun Yang | Nation in the Backyard: Yi Injik and the Rise of New Fiction (1906-1913) Kyeong-hee Choi |
Associate Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature, Boston University |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Paul Fischer | The Formation of the Shi Zi Edward Shaughnessy |
Professor of Asian Cultures and Religions, History Department, Western Kentucky University |
| Garret Olberding | Towards Imperial Conviction: The Use of Evidence in the Military Memorials of the Early Han Donald Harper |
Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma |
| Samuel Perry | Aesthetics for Justice: Proletarian Literature in Japan and Colonial Korea Norma Field |
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University, |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Krista Van Fleit Hang | People's Literature and the Construction of New China, 1949-1966 Xiaobing Tang |
Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cutlures, University of South Carolina, |
| Eric Warner Johnson | Modern Japan and the Cultural History of Inkyo Norma Field |
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| Chika Kinoshita | Mise-en-Scene of Desire: the Films of Mizoguchi Kenji Norma Field |
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan , |
| Ling Hon Lam | Emotional In-difference: Exploring Exteriority in Late Imperial Chinese Drama and Fiction Anthony Yu |
Assistant Professor, Chinese Program, University of California, Berkeley |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Committee | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Weihong Bao | Baptism by Fire: Spectatorship and Aesthetic Affecct in Chinese Cinema from Shanghai to Chongqing Miriam Hansen |
Associate Professor, Deparment of Film and Media + Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley , |
| Chisato Hota | The Construction of the Korean Community in Osaka between 1920 and 1945: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Bruce Cumings and William Sibley |
Visiting Assistant Professor, The School of Liberal Studies, Waseda University, |
| Miho Matsugo | The War in Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country: Aesthetics of Empire, Politics of Literature, Struggle of Women Norma Field |
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| David Michael Sena | Reproducing Society: Lineage and Kinship in Western Zhou China Edward Shaughnessy |
Preceptor in Literary Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University , |
| Hongbing Zhang | Global Passions: Travel, Space, and Cultural Transformations in Modern China, 1840s-1910s Xiaobing Tang |
Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, Fayetteville State University, |