*Japanese Studies General Guide: Japan Studies Faculty and Courses

Provides a starting point for Japan Studies, including resources to find books, articles, newspapers, and web resources.

2014 Spring Japan (East Asia) Studies Courses - Undergrad

Under Construction.

2014 Spring Japan (East Asian) Studies Course - Grad

ANTH775: Seminar Cultural Anthropology” Gendered Modernity & Development East Asia

COMS557: East Asian Communications

EALC541/FMS541/EALC841/FMS841: Asian Film

EALC570/LING570: The Structures of Japanese

EALC 589/HIST589: Japan Since 1945

EALC 590: Topics in East Asian Language & Culture

EALC 801/JPN801: Direct4ed Readings

HA503: Japanese Prints

HA589: History of Art – Japanese Art Encounters with Europe and US

HIST605/EALC590: Medieval Japan

HIST747: East Asian History and Cultural Teachers

 

 

Japan (East Asia) Studies Faculty

Anderson, Christopher W.

Associate Professor, School of Business
http://www.business.ku.edu/faculty/anderson-christopher-w/
International finance, corporate finance, contracting and governance; international expertise in capital markets in Japan and South America

Baskett, Michael

Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
http://film.ku.edu/people/baskett_michael.shtml
Asian films, particularly Japanese, silent and early world cinema, colonial and diasporic cinemas, film/media history and criticism, and postcolonial film studies

Butler, James J. Jr.

Senior Scientist, Kansas Geological Survey
http://www.kgs.ku.edu/General/Personnel/abc/butler.html
Well hydraulics, direct-push methods for hydrostratigraphic characterization, ground-water flow and transport in heterogeneous formations, stream-aquifer interactions, phreatophytes. Experience in China, Korea, and Japan.

Childs, Margaret H.

Associate Professor, East Asian Language & Cultures
http://www2.ku.edu/~ealc/faculty/margaret_childs.shtml
Pre-modern Japanese literature, Japanese language pedagogy

Fiorentino, Robert

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
http://people.ku.edu/~fiore355/

Fowler, Sherry

Associate Professor, Art History
http://www.ku.edu/~kuarthis/faculty/fowler.htm
Japanese art history, Buddhist art history

Gabriele, Alison

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
http://people.ku.edu/%7Egabriele/
Second language acquisition

Gerbert, Elaine T.

Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
pages/Gerbert_Elaine_T.shtml
Modern Japanese literature, play in Japan, translation, Japanese language pedagogy

Graham, Patricia J.

Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies
pages/Graham_Patricia_J.shtml
Japanese art history, Japanese devotional site

Kaneko, Maki

Assistant Professor, Art History
http://www2.ku.edu/~kuarthis/faculty/index.htm
20th-century and contemporary Japanese art history

Lindsey, William Robert

Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
http://www.ku.edu/~rstudies/FacultyNewbios.shtml
Religion in Japan; popular religious expression and ritual in the Tokugawa period

Minai, Utako

Assistant Professor, Linguistics
http://www.linguistics.ku.edu/faculty/index.shtml
First Language Acquisition, Child Language

Mitsugi, Sanako

Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures
http://people.ku.edu/~s451m393/index.html
Psycholinguistics, L2 sentence processing, second language acquisition

Nam, Yoonmi

Associate Professor, Art
http://art.ku.edu/people/nam_yoonmi.shtml
Drawing, printmaking, painting, and installation art; Japanese woodblock printing methods

Rath, Eric

Associate Professor, History
http://www.history.ku.edu/faculty/rath/index.shtml
Premodern Japan; social and cultural history, especially traditional Japanese theater, foodways, and urban agriculture; Tibetan history

Slusser, Dale

Assistant Vice President, Development, Kansas University Endowment Association
pages/Slusser_Dale.shtml
Japanese culture and tea ceremony

Takeyama, Akiko

Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
http://wgss.ku.edu/people/akiko_takeyama.shtml
Commercialization of feelings, emotions, and romantic relationships

Uchiyama, Benjamin

Assistant Professor, History
www.history.ku.edu/faculty/index2.shtml#uchiyama
Social and cultural history of wartime Japan