Catherine Ames
Demystifying Taishō: Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, Narrative Form and the Politics of Cultural Formation
- Email: 580594@soas.ac.uk
Japan & Korea Section, Department of East Asian Languages & Culture
Japan and Korea PhD Students
Kohei Aramaki
Resistant Translation in Modern Japan: Poetry Translation by Hakushu Kitahara, Shigeru Kuzuhara and Seigo Shirotori.
Nadeschda Bachem
Imperialism, Occupation and National Identity in Post-Colonial Japanese and South Korean Literature
Lawrence Carter
Going Global: Studio Ghibli, Anime and the Popularisation of a Global Genre
- Email: 574786@soas.ac.uk
Xi Chen
A contrastive study of illocutionary acts in Korean and Chinese
- Email: lyzcx@hotmail.com
Justin Youngchan Choi
Religion and Barbarism: Protestant Political Thought in Korea in the first half of the twentieth century
- Email: 586168@soas.ac.uk
Irene Gonzalez Lopez
Prostitution in Postwar Japanese Cinema
- Email: 572446@soas.ac.uk
Makiko Hayashi
Constructing the Legal Profession in Modern Japan
- Email: 175524@soas.ac.uk
Hyejin Jang
Developing intercultural competence through Korean language education: Conceptualisation, transformation and adaptation
- Email: hyejin_jang@soas.ac.uk
Yuko Kameda
Japan as Multi-ethnic Nation: Exploring the Iconography of Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Japan
- Email: 541229@soas.ac.uk
Patrick Kilkelly
How did Confucianism influence early Korean Catholicism?
Kyeong-Soo Kim
Naturalizing Strategy in the Translation of Korean Fiction into English: from a pragmatic perspective
- Email: kyekorea@gmail.com
Inhyea Kim
Preservation and Development of Korean Folk Music during Japanese Colonial Rule
- Email: 230444@soas.ac.uk
Yejin Kim
Translation, Ideology and National Identity in the Liberation Period of Korea (1948-1953)
- Email: 603810@soas.ac.uk
Miyoung Kim
Modernity in Korean Literature: Based on the study of Ch’unhyang chŏn
- Email: 349971@soas.ac.uk
Jaewoon Ko
Story-based Approach to Teaching Korean Particles: Development of Teaching-Learning Model
- Email: 554850@soas.ac.uk
Yohei Koyama
Life with radiation: ethnography of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima
Laura Lopez Aira
Narrating the Korean 'other' in contemporary Japanese TV dramas
- Email: 346968@soas.ac.uk
Barbara Micyk
The supernatural in pre-modern Japanese illustrated fiction
- Email: 222069@soas.ac.uk
Forum Mithani
Challenging the Two-Parent Norm? Single Mothers in Japanese Visual Media
- Email: f_mithani@soas.ac.uk
Kanako Miyabayashi
Corrective feedback in the teaching of Japanese case particles
- Email: 569784@soas.ac.uk
Frances Eames Noland
Tea, Shadows, and Suicide: Emptiness as Aesthetic Identity in the works of Okakura, Tanizaki, and Mishima
- Email: 657285@soas.ac.uk
Sangwon Shin
- Email: 599777@soas.ac.uk
Allan Simpson
Locating a Queer Theory in the Context of Contemporary South Korean Literature (with a focus on the novels of Kim Hyena)
Jamie Tokuno
Translating Ecotourism: A Descriptive Corpus-Based Study of English<>Japanese Translator Mediation of Ideological Differences in Ecotourist Texts for Hokkaido and Hawaii
- Email: 556611@soas.ac.uk
Elesabeth Woolley
Suspicious Steeds and Evil Deeds: Horses and Misconduct in the Genpei Jousuiki
- Email: 533923@soas.ac.uk
Recently Awarded PhDs
2017
- Simon Barnes-Sadler Central Asian and Vernacular Yanbian Korean in Comparative Perspective (Dr J Yeon)
- Xi Chen "Speech Acts Across Cultures: Evaluations and Refusals of Koreans, Chinese and Chinese Learners of Korean" (Dr J Yeon)
- Youngchan Choi "A History of Protestant theory of liberty in Korea, 1886-1917" (Dr A Karlsson)
- Makiko Hayashi "Constructing the Legal Profession in Modern Japan" (Dr JL Breen)
- Ye Jin Kim Translation, National Ideology and Cold War in South Korea (1949-1950) (Dr O Miller)
2016
- Sang Pil Jin "Korean Neutralisation Attempts (1882-1907): Retracing the Struggle for Survival and Imperial Intrigues" (Dr A Karlsson)
- Ivan Rumanek "The Role of No in the Genesis of Kabuki - Etymology of Genre-" (Prof A Gerstle)
2015
- Ryoko Aoki "The Construction of Japanese Noh Theatre as a Masculine Art: an Analysis of its Traditional and Modern Discourses" (Prof A Gerstle)
2014
- Galia Petkova "Performing Gender in Edo-period Kabuki" (Prof A Gerstle)
- Sarah Son "Brothers, refugees or migrants? South Korean government policy for North Korean defectors and nation-building in the South Korean national narrative" (Dr A Karlsson)
- Sun Kwan Song "Intellectuals and the State: The Resilience and Decline of Neo-Confucianism as State Ideology in Joseon Korea" (Dr A Karlsson)
- Bo Kyung Kim "A Study on Korean Monolingual Learner's Dictionaries for Foreign Learners Focusing on Grammatical Information" (Dr J Yeon)
- You Kyung Ju "Typological Universals of Relative Clauses with Reference to Korean as a Foreign Language" (Dr J Yeon)
- Marie-Laure Verdier-Shin "In Good Faith? The South Korean Christian evangelical response(s) to the humanitarian crisis in North Korea" (Dr A Karlsson)
2013
- Midori Tanaka Atkins "Time and Space Reconsidered: The Literary Landscape of Murakami Haruki" (Dr S Dodd)