Research at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Our expertise in the languages and cultures of East Asia will open the doors to one of the most economically vibrant and culturally exciting regions of the world.
China, Japan and Korea have all seen rapid economic and social development over the past 70 years, while their TV shows and film, food, fashion and computer games, Manga and anime, Chinese web novels, K- and J-pop, have become an important part of global popular culture.
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures covers, through teaching and research, the language-based study of the histories and cultures of China and Inner Asia, Japan, and Korea.
Our academics have engaged in a wide variety of research, including:
- Language and identity (Barbara Pizziconi, Ernest Caldwell)
- Law and statecraft (Ernest Caldwell, Anders Karlsson)
- History and memory in East Asian cultures (Griseldis Kirsch, Owen Miller)
- East Asian literature and popular cultures (Cosima Bruno, Filippo Cervelli, Alan Cummings, Grace Koh), contemporary East Asian film and media (Griseldis Kirsch, Xiaoning Lu)
- Geopolitics, history and identity in East Asia (Christopher Gerteis, Owen Miller, Satona Suzuki)
- Cultural translation, visual and sound poetry (Cosima Bruno)
- Socialist visual cultures (Xiaoning Lu)
- Literary representation of loneliness and nerds (Filippo Cervelli)
