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gwen [dot] bennet [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Gwen Bennett)
Research Interests: Chinese archaeology, production, craft specialization and exchange, environmental and landscape archaeology.
Kenneth Dean
Kenneth Dean is James McGill Professor and Drs. Richard Charles and Esther Yewpick Lee Chair of Chinese Cultural Studies in the Department of East Asian Studies of McGill University. He recently completed Bored in Heaven, an 80 minute documentary film on ritual celebrations around Chinese New Years in Putian, Fujian, China. He is the author of several books on Daoism and Chinese popular religion, including Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plains: Vol. 1: Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods, Vol. 2: A survey of village temples and ritual activities, Leiden: Brill, 2010 (with Zheng Zhenman); Lord of the Three in One: The spread of a cult in Southeast China, Princeton: 1998 Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China, Princeton 1993; as well as First and Last Emperors: The Absolute State and the Body of the Despot (with Brian Massumi), Autonomedia, New York. 1992. He gathered and edited (with Zheng Zhenman) Epigraphical Materials on the History of Religion in Fujian: Xinghua Region (1 vol. 1995); Quanzhou Region (3 vols, 2004).
Research Interests: Taoist studies, Popular Culture, Chinese literature. See "Bored in Heaven" website
For a list of publications:k._dean_publications.pdf
Grace Fong: grace [dot] fong [at] mcgill [dot] ca (contact)
Research Interests: Classical Chinese poetry, Literary Theory and Criticism, Gender and Women's Writing.
Yuriko Furuhata
Yuriko Furuhata (Ph.D. Brown University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and a faculty member of World Cinemas Program. She works in the areas of film and media theory, Japanese cinema, visual culture, photography, and critical theory. She has published articles on Japanese film theory and filmmaking, the discourse of fûkeiron, indexicality and photography, animation and plasticity in journals such as Animation, Screen, Semiotica, and New Cinemas. She is currently completing her book, entitled The Cinema of Actuality: Japanese Film Theories, Politics, and Experiments. This book explores connections between the political avant-garde filmmaking and news media with the focus on the work of Matsumoto Toshio, Oshima Nagisa, Wakamatsu Kôji, Adachi Masao, Matsuda Masao, and Nakahira Takuma.
Research Interests: Japanese Avant-Garde and Independent Cinema, Film and Media Theory, Moving-Image Studies, Photography, Marxism, Anarchism and Political Activism, Continental Philosophy, and Visual Culture.
Adrienne Hurley
Adrienne Hurley is an Associate Professor in East Asian Studies and an associate member of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. She earned a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Irvine in 2000. She served as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for abused youth in Orange County and was awarded a Japan Foundation dissertation fellowship in 1997-1998 for her research on child abuse and youth violence in contemporary Japan. She held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japan Studies at Stanford University from 2002-2005. From 2005-2008, she was assistant professor in Asian and Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Iowa, where she was also the founder and director of the University of Iowa Youth Empowerment Academy and coordinator of the University of Iowa's One World Foundation Young Leader Scholarship program. Hurley's translation of Tomoyuki Hoshino's novel Lonely Hearts Killer was published by PM Press in 2009 and is the first book-length work by the award-winning novelist to be translated into English. She is the author of Revolutionary Suicide and Other Desperate Measures: Narratives of Youth and Violence from Japan and the United States (Duke University Press, 2011).
Research Interests: Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature, Youth and Violence, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Anarchist Studies.
Thomas Lamarre
Thomas Lamarre is a James McGill Professor in East Asian Studies and Associate in Communications Studies at McGill University. He is author of books dealing with the history of media, thought, and material culture, with projects ranging from the communication networks of 9th century Japan (Uncovering Heian Japan), to silent cinema and the global imaginary (Shadows on the Screen) and animation technologies (The Anime Machine). He has also edited volumes concerning the impact of modernity in East Asia, on pre-emptive war, and He has also edited volumes on the impacts of modernity in East Asia, on pre-emptive war, and, as Associate Editor of Mechademia: An Annual Forum for Anime, Manga, and the Fan Arts, volumes on manga, anime, and fan cultures. He is a participant in a Canadian Foundation Innovation grant to construct at Moving Image Research Laboratory.
Research Interests: History of Thought; Animation and Media Theory; Science and Technology Studies; Comparative Philosophy and Cultural Theory publications.pdf.
jeffrey [dot] moser [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Jeffrey Moser)
Jeffrey Moser is Assistant Professor of East Asian Art History in the Departments of East Asian Studies and Art History & Communication Studies. His research deals primarily with the artistic and intellectual history of China during the Song era (tenth to thirteenth centuries AD), with a particular focus on the ways in which sensory engagement with material things transformed cognition and behavior. For a complete profile, see http://www.mcgill.ca/ahcs/faculty/jeffrey-moser.
gavin [dot] walker [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Gavin Walker)
Gavin Walker is Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and East Asian Studies. He has been a Mellon Graduate Fellow in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University and a visiting researcher at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan. His research deals with topics in modern Japanese intellectual history, Marxist theory and the history of Marxism, nationalism and the global history of ‘the national question’, postcolonial studies, historiography, historical method, the history of social thought, and the intersections between critical theory and intellectual history. His essays and translations have appeared in various edited volumes and journals such as Shisō, Jōkyō, Gendai Shisō, positions: asia critique, Postcolonial Studies,Traces, Mechademia, Historical Materialism, Rethinking Marxism, Interventions, and Socialism & Democracy,among others. His current work includes The Archive of Revolution: Marxist Historiography in Modern Japan(with Katsuya Hirano) and Area and the Regime of Civilizational Difference: Biopolitics, Geopolitics, History, a special issue of positions: asia critique (with Naoki Sakai). For a complete profile, see http://www.mcgill.ca/history/gavin-walker.
Research Interests: Intellectual history, Marx and Marxism, nationalism and the national question, critical theory.
Robin D.S. Yates
robin [dot] yates [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Contact) Research Interests: Early and Traditional Chinese History, Historical Theory, Archaeology of China, Traditional Popular Culture, Chinese Poetry
Faculty lecturers
Jennie Chang: - Chinese Language
Myung Hee Kim: - Korean Language
yasuko [dot] senoo [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (Yasuko Senoo): - Japanese Language
Miwako Uesaka: Japanese Language
Bill Wang: Chinese Language
Visiting Faculty 2012-2013
james [dot] thomas [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Dr. Jim Thomas) Visiting Professor
Ph.D., University of Rochester Research
Interests: Korean visual culture, political culture, socio-economic development.
Contact: Room 102, 3434 McTavish; Phone:(514)398-4993
Associate Members
Anthropology
Sandra Hyde
Socio-cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, East Asian Studies, HIV/AIDS, Feminist Theory, Gender and Sexuality
Margaret Lock
Medical Anthropology
Geography
Sarah Turner
Development geography, Southeast Asian geography
History
Lorenz M. Luthi
History of International Relations, Cold War, Communist World, Soviet Union and Communist China (On Leave 2010-2011)
Johanna Ransmeier
Modern China; Human Trafficking, Household Bondage, and Domestic Slavery in China during the Late Qing and Republican Period
Linguistics
Junko Shimoyama
Syntax, syntax-semantics interface, Japanese
Political Science
Erik Kuhonta
Main Fields Comparative Politics, Southeast Asia Research Areas Political Development: States, Political Parties, Populism, Regionalism Political Economy: Poverty and Inequality, Social Policy International Affairs: Security Communities Qualitative Methodology: Conceptual Analysis, Comparative-Historical Analysis
Faculty Of Religious Studies
Victor Hori
East Asian religion, Ch'an/Zen Buddhism, comparative monasticism
