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Professors
gwen [dot] bennett [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
Victor Fan
Victor Fan is an Assistant Professor in East Asian Studies. He graduated from Yale University, specializing in Chinese Cinema, Global Hollywood, Film Theory, and Political Philosophy. His works have been published in Screen (on contemporary Hollywood and prosthetic memory), Film History (on Chinatown movie theatres in North America), CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture (on the televisual audience of the English Premier League), and in an anthology on Rainer Werner Fassbinder. His dissertation, titled "Football Meets Opium: A Topological Study of Political Violence, Sovereignty, and Cinema Archaeology Between ‘England’ and ‘China’”, discusses the relationship between life and political power with cinema as a site of negotiation. He is now working on a project about the industrial, formal, and spectatorial relationships between Hollywood and Chinese cinema.
Professor Fan is also a composer of contemporary "classical" music, and a filmmaker. His film, The Well (2000) was premiered at the Anthology Film Archives in NYC, and was then shown in the São Paolo International Film Festival, the Japan Society (sponsored by Song Music), and the George Eastman House (as part of the Nagisa Oshima retrospect), and won 3rd Prize in Long Narrative at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
Research Interests: Chinese Cinema and Media, Modern Chinese literature, film and Media Theory, Global Hollywood and China, political philosophy
Grace Fong
Research Interests: Classical Chinese poetry, Literary Theory and Criticism, Gender and Women's Writing (On Leave 2011-2012)
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 assistant 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
Robin D.S. Yates
Research Interests: Early and Traditional Chinese History, Historical Theory, Archaeology of China, Traditional Popular Culture, Chinese Poetry
Faculty lecturers
Jennie Chang
Teaching: Chinese Language
Myung Hee Kim
Teaching: Korean Language
Miwako Uesaka
Teaching: Japanese Language
Bill Wang; CV:bill-cv-may2011.pdf
Teaching: Chinese Language
Margaret Ng; Ph.D. Candidate, McGill University
Joy Lin
Visiting Faculty 2011-2012
lidu [dot] yi [at] mcgill [dot] ca (Dr. Lidu Yi) Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Toronto
Research Interests: Art and archaeology of East Asia; pictorial narratives and traditions of thoughts in China, visual representations and biographies, words and images, wen ren hua (literary man’s painting) and Buddhist art and architecture. Contact: Arts bldg., W245 and Room 404, 3434 McTavish; Phone: (514) 398-3926
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
Language Instructors 2011-2012
yasuko [dot] senoo [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (Yasuko Senoo) Ph.D. Candidate (McGill)
Faculty of Education
kazuhiro [dot] yonemoto [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca (Kazuhiro Yonemoto) Ph.D. Candidate (McGill)
Faculty of Education
Associate Members
Anthropology
Sandra Hyde
Socio-cultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, East Asian Studies, HIV/AIDS, Feminist Theory, Gender and Sexuality
Margaret Lock
Medical Anthropology
Art History and Communications
TBA
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)
Yuzo Ota
Japanese history and Japanese intellectual history (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