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Paul Anderer

Paul Anderer

Mack Professor of Humanities
Professor of Japanese Literature

Office: 414 Kent Hall
Office Hours: On leave for the 2019-20 academic year
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)

 

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Takuya Tsunoda

Takuya Tsunoda

Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Media

Office: 416 Kent Hall
Office Hours: W 11:00-12:00 or by appointment
Phone: (212) 854-5040
Email: tt2101@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Waseda University (’02), Columbia University (’05)
MA: Columbia University (’08)
PhD: Yale University (’15)

Classes Taught

EAAS UN3322 East Asian Cinema
EAAS UN3343 Japanese Contemporary Cinema and Media Culture
EAAS GU4122 Japanese New Wave and Cinematic Modernism
EAAS GU4123 Japanese Documentary Films
EAAS GR6400 Critical Approaches to East Asian Studies: Literary and Cultural Theory
EAAS GR8070 Graduate Seminar in Japanese Cinema and Visual Culture

Research Interests

Japanese cinema and media, educational and science film, industrial cinema, history and theory of audio-visual pedagogy, media archaeology, cinematic modernism, new cinemas of the 1960s, television

Takuya Tsunoda’s primary research centers on the interplay between institutions and media, technologies and socio-cultural practices, science and material culture, and representation and knowledge formations. He is currently at work on a book project about Iwanami Productions, which evolved from a major provider of sponsored educational, science and public relations films into a key player in the new cinemas of the 1960s in Japan. Grounding his research in archival materials, he highlights the historical and theoretical intersection between media-based governmental and civic activities, cross-medial articulation of postwar academicism in Japan, and a postwar struggle over the legacy and meaning of cinematic modernism. Looking beyond the activist logic of political radicalism, his book argues that the crucial root of new cinemas in Japan resided in institutionalized audio-visual pedagogy and image-making practice. This project works towards new transnational parameters that relate the cinematic New Wave to a range of epistemic transformations and changing mediascapes occurring in the period. His recent research interests extend to such topics as various modes of reflexivity, children and media, the emergence of alpine photography and insect ecology, television documentaries as well as the relationship between diegesis and contemporary media cultures.

Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, he taught at Colgate University and the University of Chicago.

Selected Publications

“Hani Susumu, Nouvelle Vague in Japan and Processive Cinema,” in A Companion to Japanese Cinema (Blackwell, forthcoming)

“Taxonomy of Techniques: Visions of Industrial Cinema in Postwar Japan,” in Films That Work Harder: The Circulations of Industrial Cinema (Amsterdam, forthcoming)

“Iwanami Photo Library and Natori Yōnosuke on Photography,” in Mediology in the Transformative Period: Reconfiguration of Art and Media in 1950s Japan (Shinwasha, 2019, in Japanese)

“Index and Deixis: Jinba Isao and Polluted Water Karte,” in Images of Postwar Japan: Pollution, Youth Rebellion, and the Osaka Exhibition (Univ. of Tokyo, 2018, in Japanese)

 

 

Naofumi Tatsumi

Naofumi Tatsumi

Lecturer in Japanese

Office: 518 Kent Hall
Office Hours: by appointment only
Phone: (212) 854-8345
Email: nt2358@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Japanese Linguistics, Purdue University
MA: TESOL, University of Southern Mississippi
BA: Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University

Classes Taught

JPNS UN1001 Introductory Japanese A
JPNS UN1101 First Year Japanese I
JPNS UN1102 First Year Japanese II
JPNS UN2202 Second Year Japanese II
JPNS UN3005 Third Year Japanese I

Research Interests

Japanese Pragmatics
Compliment Responses

Naofumi Tatsumi specializes in Japanese pragmatics and earned his PhD from Purdue University in 2012. His dissertation is entitled, “Compliment responses: Comparing American learners of Japanese, native Japanese speakers, and American native English speakers.”

Publications

Compliment responses: L2 learners’ rationales behind their responses (Proceedings of the Canadian Association for Japanese Language Education (CAJLE), 2015)
Teaching Japanese popular culture via otaku (Proceedings of the SecondTeaching Japan Conference: Between ‘Cool’ and 3-11: Implications for Teaching Japan Today, in press)
American learners’ compliment responses in Japanese (Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Central Association of Teachers of Japanese (CATJ 22), 2010)
Japanese loanwords in English (Proceedings of the First Annual Graduate Research Conference, 2007)