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Visiting
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 MASAKI MATSUBARA (Buddhist Studies Program)
Masaki Matsubara received his M.A. in Asian Studies (2004) and his Ph.D. in Asian Religions (2009) at Cornell University. His dissertation focused on the dynamics of tradition formation, (re) invention, and maintenance, and the role of cultural memory. It considered eighteenth-century Japanese Zen master Hakuin Ekaku's neglected role as a social critic and reformer. Matsubara has published articles on Hakuin (2004) and on Yasukuni Shrine and cultural memory (2007). He also wrote an article on succession problems in contemporary Japanese Zen in a book entitled Making Japanese Heritage (Routledge, 2009). He is presently engaged in translating Hakuin's political treatise Hebiichigo (banned soon after its publication in 1754), comparing the four extant materials (three autographed manuscripts and one published version of an autographed manuscript) with one another. He is also an ordained priest in the Rinzai tradition. |
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 MICHAEL RAINE (Japanese Program)
Michael Raine received his Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of
Iowa in 2002. He has taught at the University of Michigan, Yale
University, Bard College, and the University of Chicago. He is writing
a book on the tension between a "culture of the copy" in postwar
Japanese commercial cinema and a "culture of authenticity" in the
Japanese New Wave around 1960. He is developing a project on image
culture in wartime Japan and its territories, with a particular focus
on the rhetorical construction of the "People's Film" (kokumin eiga).
He is also engaged in using using statistics and other non-hermeneutic
methods to map the "cultural geography" of Japanese cinema during the
long transition to synchronized sound. His other interests include the
history of film theory, particularly political modernism and the
potential for a Peircian theory of film, and using digital media for
teaching and research, including subtitling as both an historical
practice and an aesthetic problem in the relation between text and
image.
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 JANN RONIS (Buddhist StudiesProgram)
Jann Ronis is the Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2011-2012 academic year. He studied religion, Tibetan studies, Sinology, and the Tibetan and Chinese languages at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2009 for a dissertation about developments in the monasteries of eastern Tibet, along the border between Tibet and China, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. His dissertation focused on innovations in scholastics, liturgical practices, and administration spearheaded by the lamas of Katok Monastery and their widespread adoption in the region. The resulting network of monasteries represented the only significant alternative in Tibet to the model of monasticism prevalent in central Tibet and was the site of tremendous literary and artistic production. His research interests include the social histories of visionary cults, scholastic traditions, monastic reform movements, and sectarian conflicts; the philosophical and contemplative traditions of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism; and Sino-Tibetan cultural relations. During his year at Berkeley Jann is researching the twelfth and thirteenth century formation of an important ritual tradition in Tibetan Buddhism the Kagye (bka' brgyad), or Eight Dispensations in an effort to better understand the domestication of Buddhism in Tibet. The Kagye is a compendium of eight heterogeneous deity cults including deities of Indic and Tibetan origins, and supramundane and mundane statuses and Jann is exploring the innovations in narrative and ritual made by the Tibetan creators of this uniquely Tibetan pantheon. |
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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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LIN ZOU (Chinese Program)
Lin Zou teaches modern Chinese literature and culture. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from U.C. Berkeley in 2003 and taught in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University from 2004-2009. Her research and teaching interests center on the constructions of subjectivity n modern and comtemporary Chinese literature and film, commercial culture, and classical Chinese aesthetics. She has completed a book manuscript titled Senseless Subversions—Agency, Affect, and Modernity in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Literature. It explores how critical agency is possible under the modern condition, and examines the role of affect in the construction of critical agency by looking at classical Chinese aesthetics and contemporary theory of affect. Her current project concerns the development of commercial culture in China from the late imperial periods to the present. |
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