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Department of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea

PhD Students

Catherine Ames
Catherine Ames

Demystifying Taishō: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Narrative Form and the Politics of Cultural Formation

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Ryoko Aoki
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The Construction of Japanese Noh Theatre as a Masculine Art: an Analysis of its Traditional and Modern Discourse

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Midori Tanaka Atkins
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Time and Space Reconsidered: The Literary Landscape of Murakami Haruki

Simon Barnes-Sadler
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Diaspora varieties of Korean: a comparative study

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Kristian Bering
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Bakin and the Theatre

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Lawrence Carter
Lawrence Carter

Going Global: Studio Ghibli, Anime and the Popularisation of a Global Genre

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Xi Chen
Chen XI

A contrastive study of illocutionary acts in Korean and Chinese

Justin Youngchan Choi
Youngchan Choi

Religion and Barbarism: Protestant Political Thought in Korea in the first half of the twentieth century

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Eugene Lee
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Critical Explorations of Late Chosŏn Travel Writing: Othering, Bordering, and Gift-giving

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Makiko Hayashi
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Constructing the Legal Profession in Modern Japan

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Wonwoong Jeong
Wonwoong Jeong

The Broken Three Arrows: Abduction, Assassination, and the Dissolution of the Cold War Relations between South Korea, Japan, and the United States, 1973-1975.

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Sang Pil Jin
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'Late Joseon Diplomatic History and the Policy of Permanent Neutralization'


Youkyung Ju
Youkyung Ju

Typological Universals of Relative Clauses with Reference to Korean as a Foreign Language

Yuko Kameda
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Japan as Multi-ethnic Nation: Exploring the Iconography of Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Japan

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Bokyoung Kim
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‘A Study on Monolingual Learner’s Dictionary for foreign learners’

Kyeong-Soo Kim
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Naturalizing Strategy in the Translation of Korean Fiction into English: from a pragmatic perspective


Inhyea Kim
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Preservation and Development of Korean Folk Music during Japanese Colonial Rule

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Yoon Jeong Lee
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The Discourse on Eugenics in Colonial Korea

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Irene Lopez Gonzalez
Irene Lopez Gonzalez

Prostitution in Postwar Japanese Cinema

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Barbara Micyk
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The supernatural in pre-modern Japanese illustrated fiction

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Forum Mithani
Forum Mithani

The representation of motherhood in Japanese print media

Kanako Miyabayashi
Kanako Miyabayashi

Corrective feedback in the teaching of Japanese case particles


Kamila Niekoraniec
Kamila Niekoraniec

Traditional Family Ceremonies in the Royal Court of Confucian Joseon Korea

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Ivan Rumanek
Ivan Rumanek

The appropriation of Noh by Joruri and Kabuki

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Deborah Smith
Deborah Smith

Agency, history, and reality (hyŏnsil) in contemporary Korean literature

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Sarah Son
Sarah Son

South Korean policy for North Korean defectors and nation-building on the Korean peninsula, 1996-2012


Sun Kwan Song
Sun Kwan Song

Late Joseon (16th- 19th century) Intellectual Trends: A New Look at Developments within Neo-Confucianism

Carla Tronu Montane
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Christianity in pre-modern Japan

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Marie-Laure Verdier
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In Good Faith? The South Korean Christian Response to the Humanitarian Crisis in North Korea