Associate Head of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Dr Alan Cummings (BA Japanese, BA Japanese Studies, BA Korean, BA Korean Studies)
Dr Alan Cummings (BA Japanese, BA Japanese Studies)
Professor Jae Hoon Yeon (BA Korean)
Dr Anders Karlsson (BA Korean Studies)
Professor Stephen Dodd (MA Japanese Literature, MA Japanese Studies, MA ...and Intensive Japanese)
Dr Grace Koh (MA Korean Studies, MA Korean Studies (Literature Pathway)
Dr Anders Karlsson MA ... and Intensive Korean)
Please note that for Masters Students the Admissions Tutor and Academic Advisor is the Postgraduate Programme Convenor.
https://www.academia.edu/37292583/Mobilizing_Japanese_Youth_Propaganda_Politics_and_Power_in_the_Cold_WarModern and Contemporary Japanese history. Social and cultural history of the 20th century, especially the intersection of consumer capitalism and historical memory.
Contemporary Japanese culture, with particular interest in Japanese media and popular culture, representations of 'Otherness', social phenomena and war memory.
Korean and East Asian literary traditions (prose and fiction); literary and intellectual history; travel literature and cultural encounters; critical theory and comparative literature
Modern Korean history and society; Korean historiography; social and economic history of 19th and 20th century Korea
Korean language teaching
Ms Jones is a Teaching Fellow within the Department of Financial and Management Studies and Department of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea.
She also coordinates The Sir Peter Parker Awards for Spoken Business Japanese and Japanese Language Proficiency Test at SOAS Language Centre.
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.
Japanese art and culture of the 16th to 19th centuries
East Asian film and visual media