A Range of expertise related to Asian Studies
Topics: Visual arts/aesthetic culture in Asia (19th – 21st centuries: graphic arts, filmic media), manga/comics, anime and animation
Approaches: Media Studies; Art Theory/Aesthetics; Museum/Exhibition Studies
Other supervision areas: Film Studies, Intermediality Studies, Narratology, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Intersectionality Studies, Cultural Studies, Game Studies
Topics: Sinophone and Hong Kong literature, translation in theory and practice, Confucianism and popular belief in China
Approaches: Sinological, Philological, Translation Studies
Other supervision areas: Chinese-European intercultural relations
Topics: pre-modern, modern and contemporary Korean literature; intellectual history; cultural heritage policies in the East Asian regional context
Approaches: textual analysis, comparative literature, historico-cultural approach, critical heritage studies
Other supervision areas: cultural memory and identity; local and regional culture
Stina Jelbring, Associate Professor
Topics: classical Japanese literature
Approaches: metaphor theory, translation studies, philology, close reading, stylistics
Other supervision areas: modern and premodern Japanese literature, Japanese script, ancient Japanese history and culture
Gabriel Jonsson, Associate Professor/Docent
Topics: Korean politics and economics
Approaches: social science and qualitative methods
Other supervision areas: Japanese-Korean Relations, Chinese politics
Topics: Modern Korean literature, contemporary South Korean women’s literature (prose and fiction), literary translation
Approaches: Koreanlogy, narratology, translation studies, gender studies
Other supervision areas: Korean popular culture, contemporary South Korean society
Gunnar Jinmei Linder, Associate Professor
Topics: Performative arts, with a special focus on pre-Meiji performative arts, aesthetics, cultural history.
Approaches: Text studies, including philological studies, but also using a theory of semiology in music (J. J. Nattiez’s tripartitional approach), as well as theories of performativity in music and performance theory.
Other supervision areas: pedagogics/education; inter-cultural communication and understanding.
Mitsuyo Kuwano Lidén, Lecturer
Topics: Japanese linguistics (modern Japanese grammar, especially in demonstratives; Japanese pedagogical grammar within syntax, semantics and pragmatics), foreign language acquisition, Japanese language education
Approaches: cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics
Other supervision areas: translation
Ewa Machotka, Associate Professor/Docent
Topics: art and visual culture of Japan (mainly early-modern culture and contemporary art),
Approaches: global art history (incl. Postcolonialism, Orientalism, Japonism, nationalism), social art history, gender art history, ecocriticism and environmental art history,
Other supervision areas: socially engaged artistic practices; gender art history (images of women in early modern and modern printed culture), and art historiography (art theory, exhibiting practices), multimodality and text-image relationships in premodern Japanese culture.
Topics: modern & contemporary literature & culture of China and Taiwan
Approaches: memory, gender, urban studies; social history, inter- and transcultural studies
Other supervision areas: Sino-European studies, historiography, film and theater, world literature, exile
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