Japanese Studies Teaching
Professor Ian Neary is Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies and Professor of the Politics of Japan. His research interests include contemporary Japanese politics, minority groups in Japan and human rights in East Asian societies. His has recently completed a biography of Matsumoto Jiichiro.
His contribution to the master’s programme will be a course on Japanese politics. He can be contacted by email at: ian.neary@nissan.ox.ac.uk
Dr Mark Rebick is University Lecturer in the Japanese Economy and Chair of Examiners for the MSc/MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies 2010-2011. His research interests are in the Japanese labour market, population ageing and income distribution. His current research project is an investigation of poverty in Japan.
His contribution to the master’s programme will be a course on the Japanese Economy. He can be contacted by email at: mark.rebick@nissan.ox.ac.uk
Professor Takehiko Kariya is Director of Graduate Studies for the MSc/MPhil in Modern Japanese Studies and Professor in the Sociology of Japanese Society. He has conducted sociological studies of education, social stratification and social mobility, school-to-work transition, and social influences of education policies in Japan. Before coming to Oxford, he was a professor of sociology of education at the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, for two decades.
His contribution to the master’s programme will be the course Sociology of Japanese Society. He can be contacted by email at: takehiko.kariya@nissan.ox.ac.uk
Dr Sho Konishi is University Lecturer in the History of Modern Japan. He studies the intellectual, cultural and transnational history of Japan from 1700. His current research interests include historical epistemology, the transnational history of the emotion, anarchist natural science and ethnography, and language and translation as intellectual history.
His contribution to the master’s programme will be a course on Modern History. He can be contacted by email at: sho.konishi@nissan.ox.ac.uk
Dr Ekaterina Hertog is the Sasakawa Career Development Fellow in the Sociology of Japanese Society. Her research interests lie in the field of Sociology of the Family. She has recently completed a research project on Japanese unwed mothers, and the book ‘Tough Choices: Bearing an Illegitimate Child in Contemporary Japan’ is coming out with Stanford University Press. She has now started work on a new research project which aims to (i) examine how preferences and opportunities affect the selection of long-term mates; (ii) test some of the predictions that various theories make in this regard and (iii) test some of the theories on the strategies that people employ to signal their qualities in order to attract the best possible mate and to avoid being deceived by potential partners who misrepresent their attractiveness.
Professor Roger Goodman is the Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and Head of the Social Sciences Division. His research interests include the anthropology and sociology of Japan, comparative education and social policy and the anthropology of children. His current research project is on higher education reform in Japan.
His contribution to the master’s programme will be a course on Japanese Social Anthropology. He can be contacted by email at: roger.goodman@nissan.ox.ac.uk
Dr Jenny Corbett is University Reader in the Economy of Japan. She is also Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre at the Australian National University.
She will contribute some lectures to the course on the Japanese Economy in the master’s programme during Trinity Term. She can be contacted by email at: jenny.corbett@anu.edu.au
Japanese Studies Teaching Staff (from other departments and faculties)
We also have colleagues located in the Saïd Business School and the Ashmolean Museum who have teaching and/or research interests in Japan and who may contribute to the graduate teaching programme from time to time.
At the time of writing there are four colleagues with a full time research and teaching commitment to Japanese studies in the Oriental faculty: Professor Bjarke Frellesvig (linguistics), Dr Linda Flores (modern literature), Dr Phillip Harries (classical literature), Dr James Lewis (Japan Korean relations) and three full time language instructors.
Professor Bjarke Frellesvig is Professor of Japanese Linguistics, and a Fellow of Hertford College. His research interests include the history of the Japanese language, Japanese-Korean comparative linguistics, and general historical linguistics. He is the Director of the University’s Research Centre for Japanese Language and Linguistics (see http://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/research/jap-ling/) and also directs a large research project funded by the AHRC on Pre-modern Japanese syntax. Other current research projects include Reconstruction of proto-Japanese phonology and morphology (together with John Whitman, Cornell University).
His contribution to the master’s programme will be a course in Japanese Linguistics. He can be contacted by email at: bjarke.frellesvig@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Dr Rachel Murphy is University Lecturer in the Sociology of China and a Faculty Fellow at St. Antony’s College. Her interests include population and development, migration, rural transformation, media communications and qualitative research methods.
Her contribution to the master’s programme will be teaching on the course Research Methods for Asian Studies. She can be contacted by email at: rachel.murphy@sant.ox.ac.uk
Mr Gian-Piero Persiani's research interests are in the sociology of literary production and consumption and, more specifically, in the nature and structure of the literary field, the making of writers' reputations, the role of audiences, and the ciruclation of literary styles and forms. His most recent project is a study of the waka boom of the mid-10th century.
His contribution to the master's programme will be a course in modern and classical Japanese literature, translation, as well as an introduction to the classical Japanese language. He can be contacted by email at: gian-piero.persiani@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Dr Linda Flores is the University Lecturer in Japanese Literature and Tutorial Fellow at Pembroke College. Her research interests include Proletarian Literature, Women’s Writing, Gender Theory, Comparative Literature, and Atomic Bomb Writing. She organised the 2008 Kobayashi Takiji Symposium in Oxford at Keble College from September 16-18.
She is currently on sabbatical leave.