Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies
Julia Clark received her BA in Linguistics from Carleton College in 2012. Her research interests include Zainichi Korean authors and other minority literature.
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Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies
Jiajun Liang received his B.A. in Japanese Studies and Economics from Macalester College, and his M.A. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. His research focuses on the relationship between the dissolution of the Japanese empire and the emergence of transnational literature in the postwar period, especially in the context of globalization and multilingualism.
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Premodern Japanese Literature
Jonathan received his B.A. in Japanese Language from UC Berkeley. His research focuses on women’s memoirs from the Heian period, specifically on the expressive possibilities available to women within court society and the role of Heian women’s autobiographical narratives in the creation of a vernacular writing style.
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Premodern Japanese Literature
Kim Mc Nelly completed a B.A. (2008) in East Asian Languages and Cultures at Smith College and an M.A. (2015) in Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is interested in Japanese medieval women’s involvement in the transmission of war-related narratives and the continuing influence of their gendered portrayals through WWII.
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Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies
Eric Siercks entered the department of Asian Languages and Cultures after earning a M.A. in Japanese literature from the University of Colorado and a B.A. in English from Lawrence University. He is interested in postwar Japanese literature and intellectual history, how concepts of the nation developed transnationally across complex political spectra, and the impact of postwar thought on contemporary nationalism.
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James Hillmer is PhD student in Modern Korean history. He received his B.A. in History and East Asian Studies from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. from UCLA in East Asian Studies. He is interested in the development of the modern Korean prison system and the historical changes in penological discourse on the Korean peninsula. He is primarily focused on the turnover of Japanese colonial penal institutions to the U.S. occupation government after Liberation in 1945.
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HeeJin received her AB in East Asian Studies and Government from Harvard University in 2005 and her JD from the University of Iowa College of Law in 2009. She is interested in examining questions of language and their impact on identity formation as manifested in literary texts of early 20th century Korea and francophone Africa.
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My current research interests are twofold. First, I am currently working on how the functional/interactional linguistic approach could shed new light on those ‘old’ questions which formal syntacticians could not answer or did not pay proper attention to. Also, I have always been interested in subsequent language acquisition and the roles which previously acquired linguistic knowledge plays in the process of selective transfer. I believe all of these will contribute not only to our better understanding of how we actually use Korean in daily life, but also to establishing more stable foundation for Korean language and culture education.
I got my B.A. and M.A. in Korean linguistics at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Before coming to UCLA, I had taught Korean at Wellesley College (Massachusetts, USA), Qatar International Academy for Security Studies (Doha, Qatar), the Korean Language Institute at Yonsei University, and the University of Costa Rica (San Jose, Costa Rica) for 8 years.
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Jin-Aeng Choi received B.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literature and Media and Communication Studies from Korea University, M.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literature from Korea University, and M.A. in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the State University of New York – Stony book. She is interested in Korean Diasporas and its cultural products.
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Bhikkhu Dukil (Seongryong Lee)
Ph.D. Focus: The Early Phase of Indian Buddhism
I am a Korean Buddhist monk. I received a B.A. in Statistics from Seoul National University in Korea. I learned Pali language and its literature at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka for about four years. I earned an M.A. in the History of Religion from the University of Virginia. Then, I started my Ph.D. program in the field of Buddhism at UCLA in 2015. My current research interest is in the Atthakavagga of the Sutta Nipata, one of the earliest Buddhist literatures. I am much intrigued by how this doctrinally unsystematized text have been understood by different Buddhist traditions. I mainly compare the Pali version with the Chinese one together with their multilayered commentaries. For the larger picture of my study, I also enjoy reading the early Upanisads, which roughly precedes the institutionalizations of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.
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Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies
Chiara Pavone received her B.A. in Asian History and Culture from the University of Bologna, and her M.A. in Japanese Language and Literature from Ca’ Foscari University (Venice). Her research interests include disaster literature, Japanese contemporary thought and postmodernism, but she focuses particularly on the new narrative trends appearing in post-Fukushima literature and how they appear to shape the collective imaginary of catastrophe.
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Seunggon Jeong is currently working on the use of interrogative ending suffixes in Korean conversations using the frameworks of Corpus linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis.
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Chinese Cinema
Cui Zhou is currently studying modern Chinese cinema. She got her B.A and M.A from Peking University, China. She also received a M.A in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interest focuses on director studies, textual studies, Chinese film history, and the relationship between politics and cinema.
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Modern Korean History, Cultural/Intellectual History
Sung Eun is a Ph.D. student in Modern Korean History. He received his M.A. in East Asian Regional Studies from Columbia University, and his B.A. in Asian Studies and Political Science from Vassar College. His main research focuses on the development of cultural and intellectual history of North Korea through a comprehensive analysis of written works related to it’s history, literature, film, visual art and other media. More recently, his interests include tracing the history of the Korean Augmentation Troops to the U.S. Army (KATUSAs), to delineate the complexities of modern Korean society embodied in the experiences and depictions of the KATUSAs.
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Classical Chinese literature
Meimei Zhang is a Ph.D candidate of Classical Chinese literature. She completed an undergraduate degree in Chinese language and literature at Beijing Foreign Studies University and an MA in Chinese Literature at UCLA. She is interested in literature and music from pre-Qin period to the Northern Song of China, and she is especially interested in the representation of guqin in literary texts.
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Korean Literary and Cultural Studies
Maarika Rickansrud is a Ph.D. student in Modern Korean Literature. She received her B.A. in Asian Studies and Japanese Language from UC Berkeley, and her M.A. in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard University. Her research interests include the decolonization of East Asia in the aftermath of World War II, with a particular interest in how former colonial writers in Korea and Taiwan envisioned their ‘national’ language and literature before and after Japanese occupation, and how Japanese language writings are dealt with in contemporary popular memory.
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Chinese Linguistics
Yan received her MA in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at Beijing Normal University, and her BA in Teaching Chinese as A Foreign Language at Xi’an International Studies University. Before coming to UCLA, she was visiting at Bucknell University, where she studied Linguistics and TAed Chinese language classes.
Her research interests focus on functional linguistics, including conversation and discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics. She’s also interested in exploring the social-cultural aspects of language and language usage, such as identity and interaction.
Yan has been teaching or TAing Mandarin courses since 2012 at different institutions, including Beijing Normal University, intensive summer language program Princeton-in-Beijing, Bucknell University, and now UCLA. She enjoys teaching the language, and strives to apply the results of research in her field to the teaching and learning of Mandarin Chinese.
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Chinese Language and Culture
Faye Qiyu Lu is a PhD student of modern Chinese literature, film and media culture. Her academic interests include the aesthetics and politics of time and the conception of Asia in China. She hopes to explore these themes in intellectual discourses and popular culture of the Republican era and beyond. Faye completed her BA in Political Science and French at Wellesley College (2013) and MA in Critical Asian Humanities at Duke University (2017).
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North Korean History, Cold War History
Donghyun is a Ph.D. student in history of socialism. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Korean History from Seoul National University. His research concerns the relationship between North Korea and the Soviet Union in the Cold War period, focusing on how “socialist” forms of knowledge and technology were constructed, contested and configured. He is interested in integrating approaches and methodologies from different fields such as anthropology, intellectual history and science, technology and society studies (STS). He has presented in several countries including the US, the UK, Russia and Norway. He studied Russian language in the city of Tomsk in 2017 and loves the following Russian phrase: “tol’ko vpered, ni shagu nazad!”
Webpage: www.donghyunwoo.com
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Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies
Yasmine Krings received a BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Chicago and an MA in Regional Studies – East Asia from Harvard University. Her research focuses on conceptions and portrayals of mixed-race-ness in Japan across visual and textual media from the postwar era to the present day. Her prior work and general interests include women’s literature, motherhood, gender and sexuality, blackness and postcolonial studies.
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