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Hana Lethen

Hana Lethen

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

Hana Lethen is a PhD candidate specializing in theater and performance in premodern Japan. In particular, her work focuses on how the embodied techniques, aesthetic conventions, and other distinguishing characteristics of medieval theatrical genres offer insights in excess of privileged textual and documentary archives. Her dissertation, Choreographies of Eccentricity: Madness, Dance, and Gender in Medieval Noh Theater, examines how the identification of madness with dance shaped embodiments of difference in noh’s genre of “madness plays.” Evidencing her steadfast commitment to scholarship informed by praxis, she has extensive training and performance experience in noh dance and chanting as well as nihon buyō.

Hana’s article, “Moving Spectacles: Madwomen and Human Trafficking in Noh’s Peripheries,” was published in the Spring 2026 issue of Verge: Studies in Global Asias. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright and FLAS fellowships. She received her AB in comparative literature from Princeton in 2017.

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C.V. Starr Library New Acquisition: Documents of the Proletarian Cultural Movement in Prewar Japan

C.V. Starr Library New Acquisition: Documents of the Proletarian Cultural Movement in Prewar Japan

A new DVD on Documents of the proletarian cultural movement of the prewar Shōwa era (昭和戦前期プロレタリア文化運動資料集) has been acquired and is now accessible through the dedicated Japanese language CD/DVD-ROM workstation in the Starr Reading Room (300 Kent Hall).

This DVD, newly compiled by Shōwa Senzenki Puroretaria Bunka Undō Shiryōshū Kenkyūkai, contains various important resources from various sources.

More details, please refer to the CLIO record: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/12807594

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Professor Theodore Hughes awarded Heyman Center Fellowship for 2018-2019

Professor Theodore Hughes awarded Heyman Center Fellowship for 2018-2019

Professor Theodore Hughes, Director of the Center for Korean Research and Korean Foundation Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University, has been awarded a Heyman Center Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Funded by Office of the Executive Vice-President of the Arts and Sciences, this yearlong fellowship provides course relief, allowing scholars to work on proposed research projects and to participate in the Heyman Center Fellows Seminar. Comprising other faculty and dissertating graduate student fellows and chaired by Mark Mazower, the Seminar Director of the Heyman Center Fellows, this seminar provides the opportunity to present work-in-progress and foster discussion across fields and disciplines in other ways, creating opportunities for collaborative research and teaching in future semesters.

The EALAC Department hopes you join us in congratulating Professor Hughes on his tremendous achievement.

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