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Deanna T. Nardy

Deanna T. Nardy

Field: Modern Japanese Literature
Advisor: Takuya Tsunoda
Email: dtn2109@columbia.edu

Deanna T. Nardy is a Ph.D. candidate in modern Japanese literature and visual media. Before returning to Columbia, she received her MA in Contemporary Culture Studies from Kyoto University (2018), and her BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University (2015).  Her research interests include black studies and decolonial theories and their circulation in Japan, black literature in translation, postwar rental comics, and the processes by which art constitutes revolutionary praxis and fosters radical subjectivity.

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Peter Moody

pmoodyPeter Moody

Field: Korean History
Advisors: Gregory Pflugfelder and Jungwon Kim
Email: pgm2116@columbia.edu

Peter is a PhD student in East Asian History specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of modern Korea and Japan. He is interested in looking at how the discourse of tradition vs. modern evolved during the colonial and post-war periods, particularly when state actors used notions of civilization and advancement to win support for political projects that were sometimes at the expense of the subaltern. Before coming to Columbia, he obtained his Master’s in East Asian Studies from the University of Virginia where he wrote his thesis on mass mobilization campaigns in North Korea. His recent research interests include microhistories of North Korean coastal cities and the intersection of North Korean ideology and cultural production, particularly when it comes to the popular music soundscape.

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Maho Miyazaki

Maho Miyazaki

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Haruo Shirane
Email: mm4909@columbia.edu

Maho Miyazaki is a PhD candidate in premodern Japanese literature. Before joining Columbia she received her BA (2012) and MA (2014) in English literature from Kyoto University. Her research project focuses on theories on cross-dressing in noh plays; how men in the 14th to 15th centuries imagined and recreated female body, and how gender and age of actors have affected the theorization of female impersonation. Her research also includes comparisons with two other transvestite theatrical genres, kabuki and English Renaissance theatre, and the changes and evolvement in female impersonation brought about by the participation of female professional noh performers since the 20th century.

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