Archives for January 2015

Filed Under: Emeritus

Paul Anderer

Fred and Fannie Mack Professor
Emeritus of Humanities

Office: 414 Kent Hall
Office Hours: F 3:00-5:00 or by appointment
Phone: (212) 854-1525
Email: pja1@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Michigan University (’71)
MA: Chicago University (’72)
PhD: Yale University (’79)

Classes Taught

AHUM UN1400 Colloquium on Major Texts: East Asia
EAAS UN3901 Senior Thesis
JPNS GR8020 Graduate Seminar in Modern Japanese Literature

Research Interests

Japanese fiction, film, and cultural criticism
Asian Humanities

Paul Anderer joined the Columbia faculty in 1980. From 1989 until 1997, he was the chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. He has also served the University as Vice Provost for International Relations, as Associate Vice-President for Academic Planning and Global Initiatives in the Arts and Sciences, and as Acting Dean of the Graduate School. He has written numerous articles exploring the culture of the city (Tokyo) and Japanese modernity. His work has been awarded support from the NEH, the SSRC, and the Fulbright Commission. He is currently writing a book on the black and white films of Kurosawa Akira, in their relationship to the Japanese post-war and to the era of silent film-making.

Selected Publications

Kurosawa’s Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films (Pegasus, 2016)

Literature of the Lost Home: Kobayashi Hideo-Literary Criticism, 1924-1939 (Stanford, 1995)

Other Worlds: Arishima Takeo and the Bounds of Modern Japanese Fiction (Columbia, 1984)

Hetty Ye-Jae Lee

Field: Korean Cultural History
Advisor: Theodore Hughes
Email: yl2693@columbia.edu

Hetty Ye-Jae Lee is a PhD candidate in EALAC studying the history of forensic psychiatry and psychology in modern South Korea. Her research examines how diagnostic technologies shaped the medical-legal categories of “mental incapacity,” “deception,” and “trauma” from 1945 to 1987, amid postcolonial technology transfer, national security legislation, and democratization movements. She is also pursuing a certificate in the Psychoanalytic Studies Program within ICLS.

Hetty received her BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University with a focus on German and Ancient Greek literature and psychoanalysis. She received her MA in modern Korean cultural studies from Columbia University in 2023.

Filed Under: recent-phds

Ekaterina Komova

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Haruo Shirane
Email: ek2853@columbia.edu

Ekaterina is a PhD student in premodern Japanese literature. Prior to coming to Columbia, she received her BA in Asian Language and Culture (Hons., 2012) followed by her MA in Asian Studies (2014) from the University of British Columbia. Her primary research areas include the history and development of linguistic thought as well as the interrelation between linguistic processes such as grammatical and semantic broadening and their effect on the evolution and aesthetization of certain poetic and literary concepts. She is also interested in the tradition of poetic commentaries and reception, in addition to the stylistics and reading of kuzushiji (cursive) texts. Outside of her field of specialty, Ekaterina is actively involved in the research of phonetics of Czech and Russian.