Japan and Korea Departmental Staff
Undergraduate Admissions Tutors
Dr Alan Cummings (Japan)
Dr Grace Koh (Korea)
Undergraduate Programme Convenors
Professor Andrew Gerstle (BA Japanese)
Dr Alan Cummings (BA Japanese plus another subject)
Dr Jaehoon Yeon (BA Korean)
Postgraduate Programme Convenors
Dr Stephen Dodd (MA Japanese Studies & MA Japanese Literature)
Dr Anders Karlsson (MA Korean Studies)
Dr Grace Koh (MA Korean Literature)
Dr Isolde Standish (MA Global Cinemas and the Transcultural)
Dr Barbara Pizziconi (MA Applied Linguistics and Language Pedagogy)
Postgraduate Research Tutor
Please note that for Masters Students the Admissions Tutor and Personal Tutor is the Postgraduate Programme Convenor.
Academic Staff
Andrew Gerstle
Professor of Japanese Studies
Head of Department of Japan and Korea
Japanese literature, drama and thought, primarily of the Tokugawa period, with particular interest in Bunraku and Kabuki theatre and the plays of Chikamatsu - Tel: 020 7898 4207
- Email: ag4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 390
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00-12:00 and by appointment
Stephen Dodd
Senior Lecturer in Japanese
Modern Japanese literature, with particular interest in representations of the native place (furusato), gender/sexuality and modernity - Tel: 020 7898 4216
- Email: sd5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 381
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 15:00-16:00 and by appointment
Anders Karlsson
Senior Lecturer in Korean
Korean language; literature and society; history of 19th century Korea - Tel: 020 7898 4265
- Email: ak49@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 388
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 16:00-17:00/Thursdays 11:00-13:00
Griseldis Kirsch
Lecturer in Contemporary Japanese Culture
Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.
- Tel: 020 7898 4288
- Email: gk10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 377
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00 and by appointment
Mika Kizu
Lecturer in Japanese
Theoretical Linguistics; Syntax; Japanese Linguistics; Second Language Acquisition - Tel: 020 7898 4224
- Email: mk89@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 383
Grace Koh
Lecturer in Korean Literature
Korean and East Asian literary traditions (prose and fiction); literary and intellectual history; travel literature and cultural encounters; critical theory and comparative literature
- Tel: 020 7898 4290
- Email: gk5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 385
- Office Hours: Fridays 11:00-13:00
Owen Miller
Lecturer in Korean Studies
Modern Korean history and society; Korean historiography; social and economic history of 19th and 20th century Korea
- Tel: 020 7898 4363
- Email: om4@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 408
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 14:00-15:00/Thursdays 13:00-14:00
Barbara Pizziconi
Senior Lecturer in Applied Japanese Linguistics
Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic politeness - Tel: 020 7898 4225
- Email: bp3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 362
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 15:00-16:00 and by appointment
Isolde Standish
Reader in Film and Media Studies, Department of Japan and Korea
East Asian film and visual media
- Tel: 020 7898 4227
- Email: is16@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 574
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 9:00 - 11:00
Jae Hoon Yeon
Professor of Korean Language and Linguistics
Korean language and linguistics, especially morpho-syntax and linguistic typology; structure and history of Korean language; Korean language teaching and translation; modern Korean literature - Tel: 020 7898 4232
- Email: jy1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 384
- Office Hours: Fridays 14:00 - 15:00 and 16:00-17:00
Principal Lectors
Senior Lectors
Misako Kanehisa
Senior Lector in Japanese
- Tel: 020 7898 4235
- Email: mk7@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 387
- Office Hours: Mondays 13:00-14:00 / Wednesdays 12:00-13:00
Miwako Kashiwagi
Senior Lector in Japanese
- Tel: 020 7898 4236
- Email: mk56@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 387
- Office Hours: Mondays 16:00-17:00 / Wednesdays 16:00-17:00
Miki Kawabata
Senior Lector in Japanese
- Email: mk90@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 480
- Office Hours: Mondays 13:00-14:00 / Wednesdays 15:00-16:00
Kyung Eun Lee
Senior Lector in Korean
Korean language teaching
- Tel: 020 7898 4267
- Email: kl14@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 395
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 15:00 - 16:00
Teaching Fellows
Alan Cummings
Senior Teaching Fellow In Japanese
- Tel: 020 7898 4200
- Email: ac50@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 391
- Office Hours: Mondays 17:00-18:00/Fridays 16:00/17:00
Research Associates
J E Hoare
Research Associate
FCO Research Analysts (China, Japan and Korea) for 33 years. PhD from SOAS 1971 in Japanese history. Served in Seoul, Beijing and in 2001-2002, established the British Embassy in Pyongyang., Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Has taught Korean history at SOAS and currently teaches a course, “The Other Korea” on North Korea since 1945. Numerous publications, broadcasts etc.
- Tel: 020 7498 1489
- Email: jh3@soas.ac.uk
