Recently Awarded PhDs

2019

• Yuko Kameda "Examining Representations of the Ainu as 'Other' in Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture" (Dr G Kirsch)
• Patrick Nicholas Kilkelly "Mainstream culture and the inculturation of Catholicism in late Choson Korea" (Dr A Karlsson)
• Miyoung Kim "Modernity in Korean Literature Based on the Study of Ch'unhyang-chon" (Dr G Koh)
• Forum Kishanchandra "Reproducing and Challenging the Maternal Fantasy: Representations of Single Mothers in Japanese Television Drama, 2005-2014" (Dr G Kirsch)
• Elesabeth Amber Woolley "Suspicious Steeds and Evil Deeds': Ambition and Misconduct in the Genpei Jousuiki" (Prof CA Gerstle)

2018

• Ye Jin Kim "Translation, National Ideology and Cold War in South Korea (1949-1950)" (Dr O Miller)
• Kyeongsoo Kim "Translating Implicatures: from a relevance-theoretic perspective" (Dr G Koh)
• Eugene Lee "Between Identity and Difference: Othering, Bordering, and the Self-Fashioning of the Reading Public in Late Choson Travel Writing" (Dr G Koh)

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)