Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910—1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009). Additionally, he has co-edited a number of volumes...
University of Chicago, Art History B.A., 2025
China and transnational: Jiahe works on East Asian Buddhist material culture. She is interested in the in/stability and lives of religious objects, visions, social dynamics of secrecy, and embodiment. More...
University of California, Los Angeles, B.A Anthropology, 2023
Inter-University Center for Korean Studies, Sungkyunkwan University, 2024
Korea and Japan: Literary representations of marriage and its relation to the identity, sociality, and agency of women...
Georgetown University, BSFS Culture and Politics, 2025
Korea and Japan: linguistic imperialism, postcolonial studies, historical linguistics, literary culture, translation studies
Chan Yong Bu’s research focuses on the entanglements of the body, science, and technology within media culture as crucial sites for human-nonhuman relations. In particular, Chan Yong works on industrial media in South and North Korea, media spectacles in...
Areas of Research: East Asian Studies, History of Environmental Sciences, Material Culture, STS, Technology and Society.
Research Interests: Korean history; social and cultural history of Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910), including regional history of the northern part of Korea, regional identity, historical memory, everyday lives of people, law and society, and art history.
Research Interests: Korean literature and literary practices within the Sinographic cultural space; the human voice and vernacular writing, narratives in late Chosŏn Seoul; history and historiography of Korean literature.
Research Interests: Comparative literature, world literature, and the literatures and cultures of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan), as well as the Indian Ocean Rim (South and Southeast Asia, Middle East, Africa).
Research Interests: Language and communication, music, and semiotics; urban anthropology; anthropology of religion; South Korea.
