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Thomas Gaubatz

Thomas Gaubatz

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisors: Haruo Shirane & Tomi Suzuki
Email: tmg2130@columbia.edu
 

 

 

 

Thomas is a Ph.D. candidate in early modern Japanese literature at Columbia University. His dissertation examines literary representations of chonin (urban commoner) identity in relation to shifts in the administrative policy, print and performance media, and urban space of early modern Japan. His research interests include early modern book history and print culture, especially commercial publishing and the woodblock print as media; social history, urban space, and the Edo-Meiji transition.

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Matthieu Felt

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Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: David Lurie
Email: maf2208@columbia.edu
 

 

Matthieu is a Ph.D. candidate in premodern Japanese literature focusing on the reception and reinterpretation of eighth-century texts in medieval, early modern, and modern Japan. His dissertation traces the shifting meaning and value of the Nihon shoki (720), Japan’s first official history, through the early twentieth century. His research interests center on the adaptation of myth and early literature in text, art, and film and extend to narratology, textual production, and cultural identity.

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Dongxin Zou

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Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Eugenia Lean
Email: dz2245@columbia.edu

Dongxin Zou is a doctoral student in modern Chinese history, with interests in medicine and science, Cold War politics, and China’s relations with the Middle Eastern and North African countries in the post-colonial world. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Arabic Language & Culture from Beijing Foreign Studies University where upon graduation she worked as a lecturer in Arabic for three years. Prior to entering Columbia, she earned M.A. in History from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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