current-phd-students

Albert E. Errickson

Albert E. Errickson

Field: Vietnamese Studies
Advisor: John Phan
Email: aee2126@columbia.edu

Albert Errickson is a Ph.D. student with a focus in Vietnamese Studies. His current research examines the relationship between language and writing in pre-modern Vietnam. He is interested in issues of vernacularization, writing script history, book history, and literacy in Vietnam and pre-modern East Asia more broadly. Prior to beginning the Ph.D. program, he received his B.A. from Rutgers University and M.A. from Columbia University. 

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Yi Deng

Yi Deng

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Haruo Shirane
Email: yd2366@columbia.edu

Yi is a PhD student in early modern Japanese literature. Some of her interests include historical narratives, classical poetry, Noh plays, ghost stories, revenge tales, and legends of demon-slaying. Her primary focus is late Edo yomihon, where many of these elements converge. Beyond that, she is also interested in the publishing industry, contemporary media, and literary translation.

Yi received her BA in Neurobiology & Behavior from Cornell University (2011), MI in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University (2018), and MA in Japanese Literature from Columbia University (2022).

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Anna Dai

Anna Dai

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Tomi Suzuki, Haruo Shirane
Email: kd2657@columbia.edu

Anna is a doctoral candidate in modern Japanese literature and media studies. Her dissertation, titled “Verdant Thought: Vegetal Form and the Ecological Vision in Japanese Literary Modernity, 1900s-1920s”, examines how literary texts, plant-centered phenomenology, visual media, and ecological theory intersect as interwoven forces in the emergence of modern Japanese literature. She received her M.A. in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art (London), with a focus on the Aesthetic Movement, and her B.A. from UCLA.

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