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Visitors
2007-2008 |
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Visiting
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 MICHIHIRO
AMA (Buddhist
Studies)
Michihiro Ama received his M.A. in Buddhist Studies in 1999 from Otani University, Kyoto, Japan, and a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures in 2007 from the University of California, Irvine. He specializes in Japanese Buddhism and has recently completed an in-depth study of Japanese Buddhism and modernity, colonialism, and ethnicity. He wrote an article “Shifting Subjectivity in the Translation of Shinran’s Texts,” for The Eastern Buddhist, n.s., 37, no. 1 & 2 in 2005, and is the guest editor of the featured articles on “Natsume Soseki and Buddhism” in the forthcoming volume (n.s. 38) of the aforementioned journal. |
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JINSOO AN (Korean Program)
Jinsoo An is a full-time lecturer at School of Design and Arts of Hongik University in Korea. He received B.A in film studies at UC Berkeley and M.A and Ph.D in critical studies of Dept. of Film and Television at UCLA. He completed post-doctoral studies at Dept of East Asian Studies of NYU. His research interests include representation of history in Korean cinema, history of Korean and East Asian cinema, transnational film circulation and reception, popular film genres, "fringe" Korean cinema, interactive new media. His current project focuses on cinematic representation of colonialism in South Korean cinema. |
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 ZHONGMIN
CHEN (Chinese
Program)
Zhongmin Chen, is a professor at Zhejiang University, and “Zhiqiang” adjunct
professor at Shanghai University. Currently he is a visiting professor of Chinese
linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D.
from
UC Berkeley, and has about 20 years teaching experience on Chinese Linguistics
in many academic Universities located in China, Singapore and the United States.
His major research interests have been in Chinese historical linguistics, Chinese
phonology, Chinese dialectology, and experimental phonetics.
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 JUNKO HABU (Japanese Program and Anthropology)
Junko Habu, Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology, received her MA in Archaeology from Keio University in Tokyo (1984), and her Ph.D, in Anthropology from McGill University (1996). Her research and teaching interests include long-term changes in the prehistoric Jomon culture of Japan, Edo Period archaeology, archaeology and Japanese identities, and sociopolitics of archaeological studies. She has conducted archaeological excavations in both Japan and North America. Her books include Ancient Jomon of Japan (2004), Hunter-Gatherers of the North Pacific Rim (Senri Ethnological Studies No. 63, co-edited with J. M. Savelle, S. Koyama and H. Hongo), Beyond Foraging and Collecting (2002, co-edited with B. Fitzhugh), and Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan (2001).
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JONATHAN HALL (Japanese Program)
Jonathan M. Hall is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department
for the Spring 2008 semester. Regularly an Assistant
Professor of Japanese film, literature,
and media in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Film & Media
Studies at the University of California Irvine, Hall has taught previously
at San Francisco State University, Tokyo National University of the Fine
Arts and Music, Tokyo International University, and the University of Chicago.
Hall’s research focuses on psychoanalytic and critical theory, avant-garde
and experimental literature and film, queer theory, and cultural studies.
His current book project, entitled After Revolutionary Time: Perverse Fantasies
of the Japanese Postwar, addresses media theory, social histories of perversion,
and the Japanese underground. Hall also works as a film critic and curator;
his co-curated JPEX: Japanese Experimental Film & Video, 1955-now toured
seven North American cities in 2005 and 2006. Hall is currently working
with the Museum of Jurassic Technology (Los Angeles) and Japanese video
artist
Nakaya Fujiko on an exhibition to foreground the scientific and aesthetic
accomplishments of snow crystal specialist Nakaya Ukichiro (1900-1962).
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 NATASHA
HELLER (Chinese and Buddhist Studies Programs)
Natasha Heller is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2006-08. She specializes
in the intellectual and religious history of China, with a particular focus
on the intersection of Buddhism and literati culture. She received her Ph.D.
(November 2005) from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
at Harvard University, with a dissertation on the Chan monk Zhongfeng Mingben
(1263-1323) and his literati followers. Other research interests include
religion and the state, material culture, and concepts of law and justice
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 HSIU-HSIA
HSU (Chinese Program)
Hsiu-hsia
Hsu is a Master's degree candidate at the Graduate Institute
of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign/Second Language, National Taiwan
Normal University. Her research is on pedagogies for Chinese
grammar. She has taught Chinese at the International Chinese
Language Program, National Taiwan University, the former IUP;
and the Middlebury College Summer Chinese School. |
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BIRGIT KELLNER (Buddhist
Studies)
Dr. Birgit Kellner specializes in the history of Buddhist logic and epistemology in ancient India and Tibet. After completing her M.A. studies under the supervision of Ernst Steinkellner at the University of Vienna (Austria) in 1994, she went to Japan, where a dissertation on the knowledge of absence in Buddhist epistemological thought in India after Dharmakirti, supervised by Shoryu Katsura, earned her a Ph.D. from the University of Hiroshima in 1999. Supported by further research fellowships from the Austrian Science Fund and the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation (Germany), she carried out further research on the relationship between realist and idealist epistemologies in Buddhist thought, which is also going to be the topic of her Habilitation monograph that is currently being completed. In addition to her work on the history of Buddhist philosophy, Birgit Kellner developed and implemented several academic database projects, notably the "Indian Logic Knowledge Base", funded by the European Commission (http://www.istb.univie.ac.at/cgi-bin/ilkb/ilkb.cgi). She currently carries out a research project on the theory of reflexive awareness (svasamvedana) in Dharmakirti's Pramāṇavārttika at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies of the University of Vienna. Together with Helmut Tauscher and Helmut Krasser, Birgit Kellner edits the monograph series "Vienna Studies in Tibetology and Buddhism" (http://www.istb.univie.ac.at/cgi-bin/wstb/wstb.cgi), and together with Helmut Krasser, she acts as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.
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 RONG
LI (Chinese Program)
Rong
Li received
her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Beijing Normal
University and M.A. in Education Management
from King's College, University of London. She has worked
for IUP at Tsinghua University since 1999, as an instructor,
teacher trainer, and chief instructor. |
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 DIANE DIEN-MIN
LIU (Chinese Program)
Diane Liu received the first place award in the annual Republic of China Mandarin Speech Competition in 1991. With a Bachelor's degree from Chinese Culture University in Chinese Literature and Drama of Arts, she has taught Chinese literature for seven and a half years to high school students. After completing her MBA at Lindenwood University in the US, she initiated and taught fourteen years of Communication and Negotiation courses in Soochow University. In addition to her MBA degree, she also received a Certificate in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University. With this qualification, she is currently teaching Mandarin Chinese to foreign students and Chinese Literature to overseas Chinese students at both Soochow and National Taiwan Normal University. In 2006, she received an offer to teach Mandarin Chinese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota. |
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 SANJYOT
MEHENDALE (Near Eastern Studies and Buddhist Studies)
Dr. Mehendale received her B.A. (Art and Archaeology) from
the University of Amsterdam and her M.A. (Art and Archaeology)
from the Rijksuniversity of Leiden, The Netherlands.
She obtained her Ph.D. (Near Eastern Studies) in 1997 from the University of
California at Berkeley. Since 1997, she has been teaching on Central Asia and
Silk Road art and archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. In
Fall 2007, she will teach “Buddhism along the Silk
Road” under the auspices
of the Group in Buddhist Studies. From 2001-2005, she was the co-director of
the Uzbek-Berkeley Archaeological Mission (UBAM); she is currently developing
a new joint archaeological project in Sri Lanka. During the same period, she
was Executive Director of the Caucasus and Central Asia Program under the auspices
of the Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies. Among Dr. Mehendale’s
main research concerns is a focus on the Kushan period, in particular on trade
and cultural exchange and the relationship between Kushan kingship and Buddhist
institutions. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship,
she has developed, in collaboration with the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative,
a digital archive of the Begram ivory and bone carvings, which were once housed
in the National Museum in Kabul, Afghanistan (www.ecai.org/begramweb). The
author of several articles on Silk Road art and archaeology, she is the co-editor
of
Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora (Routledge, 2005),
and is currently working on a book on the Begram carvings. Under the auspices
of the Center for Buddhist Studies, Sanjyot Mehendale serves as the program
coordinator for its Silk Road Initiative. |
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 LAN
CHIH PO (Chinese
Program)
Po Lanchih is visiting associate professor at the Institute of International and Area Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. She received her doctorate from the Department of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley in 2001, and then she taught at Peking University in Beijing from 2001 to 2006. Her research interests encompass divergent developmental paths in China’s transitional economies, including the influence of Taiwanese direct investment on local institutional change, the globalization of producer services and the formation of China’s city-regions, and the socio-economic transformations associated with China’s (sub)urbanization process. Representative publications include “Repackaging Globalization: A Case Study of the Advertising Industry in China” in Geoforum, (2006); and “Redefining Rural Collectives in China: Land Conversion and the Emergence of Rural Shareholding Cooperatives.” Urban Studies (forthcoming, 2008). |
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 JENNIFER YING-CHU SHIAO (Chinese Program)
Ying-chu Jennifer Shiao graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature and Language, Beijing Normal University. She has taught Chinese at International Chinese Language Program, the former IUP, National Taiwan University, and National Zhengzhi University. She also has a Certificate of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language Proficiency issued by Ministry of Education (MOE), Taiwan. When not working, she likes writing Chinese novels, practicing qi-gong, cooking, and reading. |
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 JOHN
WALLACE (Japanese Program)
John Wallace teaches premodern
Japanese language and literature. He received his Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1991. He has
taught at the University of Wisconsin, Madison (1991–98), University of
California, Berkeley (1998–99), and Stanford University (1999–2003).
Professor Wallace specializes in Heian period women’s memoirs with an
emphasis on the rhetorical construction of self. He is the author of
Objects
of Discourse: Memoirs by Women of Heian Japan (Center for Japanese Studies,
University of Michigan). He is currently working on the poetry of Ono no Komachi
and Ise
as early precursors to the romantic persona constructed by Heian memoirists.
He is also interested in the interface between traditional research on classical
Japanese literature and literary analysis that relies on modern critical thought. |
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