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Jungwon Kim

JWKIMJungwon Kim

King Sejong Associate Professor of Korean Studies

Office: 402 Kent hall
Office Hours: TBD
Email: jk3638@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Harvard University (’01)
PhD: Harvard University (’07)

Classes Taught

ASCE UN1363 Introduction to East Asian Civilizations: Korea
EAAS UN3412 Conflict & Culture in Korean History
HSEA GR9860 Korean Historical Texts

Research Interests

Early Modern Korean History; Legal History; Women, Gender, Family, and Women’s Writing in Korea

Jungwon Kim is the King Sejong Assistant Professor of Korean Studies. She specializes in gender, family, and legal history of Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910). Her broad research interests include women’s writings, ritual and expression of emotions, and the use of legal archives. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and was a member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ (2012-13) before joining the department in 2013.

Selected Publications

Families in Trials: Local Courts and Legal Culture in Late Chosŏn Korea (forthcoming)

Wrongful Death: Selected Inquest Records from Nineteenth Century Korea (with Sun Joo Kim, Washington, 2014)

“You Must Avenge On My Behalf: Widow Chastity and Honor in Nineteenth-Century Korea”, Gender and History (2014)

Filed Under: Uncategorized

Laurel Kendall

Laurel Kendall

Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections at the American Museum of Natural History

Email: lk7@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Columbia University (’79)
MA: Columbia University (’76)
AB: University of California, Berkeley (’69)

Research Interests

Popular Religions in East Asia, Shamans, Sacred Objects, Contemporary Korea

As an anthropologist of Korea, Dr. Kendall has been working with and writing about Korean shamans for nearly thirty years. Having attended their performances in the early 1970s as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea, she became interested in the relationship between this largely female tradition and the operation of gender in Korean popular religion. In 1989, Dr. Kendall collaborated with documentary filmmaker Diana Lee in filming the story of a shaman’s initiation, a visual complement to her books.

More recently, Prof Kendall has been examining how changes in the shamans’ world keep pace with the social and economic transformation of South Korean society. This project includes questions of space and landscape, performance, ritual consumption, national identity, and market anxieties. She is also working with colleagues in Hanoi, Vietnam, studyingl “the sacred life of material goods.” Following the work of Alfred Gell, they are exploring the relationship between people and objects, relationships that have rules, obligations, potential benefits, and dangers.

Working between Korea and Vietnam, Dr. Kendall is cautiously interested in regional comparisons. Vietnamese folklorist Dr. Nguyen Thi Hien and her are exploring points of similarity and contrast between Korean shamans and spirit mediums of Vietnam’s Mother Goddess Religion.

Selected Publications

The Museum at the End of the World: Travels in the Post-Soviet Russian Far East (University of Pennsylvania, 2005).

Getting Married in Korea: Of Gender, Morality, and Modernity (University of California, 1996)

The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: Of Tales and the Telling of Tales (University of Hawaii, 1988)

Filed Under: Emeritus

Donald Keene

keeneDonald Keene

SHINCHO PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF JAPANESE LITERATURE

Office: 507 Kent Hall
Phone: (212) 854-5036
Email: dk8@columbia.edu
Educational Background

BA: Columbia University (’42)
MA: Columbia University (’47)
PhD: Columbia University (’49)

Donald Keene received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, and his Litt. D. from Cambridge University in 1978. He is the recipient of the Kikuchi Kan Prize of the Society for the Advancement of Japanese Culture (1962); the Order of the Rising Sun, Second Class (1993) and Third Class (1975); the Japan Foundation Prize (1983); the Yomiuri Shimbun Prize (1985); the Shincho Grand Literary Prize (1985); the Tokyo Metropolitan Prize (1987); the Radio and Television Culture Prize (1993); and the Asahi Prize (1998). He has received honorary degrees from St. Andrew’s College (1990), Middlebury College (1995), Columbia University (1997), Tohoku University (1997), Waseda University (1998), Tokyo Gaikokugo Daigaku (1999), and Keiwa University (2000).

He was the first non-Japanese to receive the Yomiuri Literary Prize for the best book of literary criticism in Japanese (awarded in 1985 for the original Japanese version of Travelers of a Hundred Ages) and he was awarded the Nihon Bungaku Taisho (Grand Prize of Japanese Literature) for the same work. In 1991 he received the National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandorf Award, and in 1994 he won the Inoue Yasushi Prize. Professor Keene has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1976, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 1986; and in 1990 he became an honorary member of the Japan Academy. He began teaching at Columbia University in 1955, and was named Columbia University Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature in 1981 and University Professor in 1989; he is currently a University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus.

Professor Keene has published approximately 25 books in English, consisting of studies of Japanese literature and culture, translations of Japanese works of both classical and modern literature, and edited works including two anthologies of Japanese literature and the collection Twenty Plays of the No Theatre. His major publications include a four-volume history of Japanese literature. Professor Keene’s Japanese publications include approximately 30 books, some written originally in Japanese, others translated from English. The Japanese translation of his history of Japanese literature has appeared in 18 volumes. His biography of Emperor Meiji in two volumes was published in October 2001 by Shinchosha. The English text, Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912, was published by Columbia University Press in 2002.

Selected Publications

Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912 (Columbia, 2002)

Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century (Henry Holt & Co, 1993)

Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era (Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1984)

World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600–1867 (Henry Holt & Co, 1976)

The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720–1830 (Stanford, 1969, 2nd edition)

Major Plays of Chikamatsu (Columbia, 1961)

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