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East Asian Studies

Andre Schmid

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • 20th century international East Asian history
  • 20th century Korean history
  • History of WWII in the Pacific
  • Japanese empire
  • North/South Korea

Office: 416-946-5114
Home: 416-536-3074
Website
Email: andre.schmid@utoronto.ca
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Eric Cazdyn

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Culture and politics
  • Japanese film
  • Media studies
  • Surveillance
  • The culture of disaster and crisis

Office: 416-585-4443
Mobile: 416-703-2450
Languages: Japanese
Website
Email: e.cazdyn@utoronto.ca
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Ikuko Komuro-Lee

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Comparative studies between Japanese and Chinese vocabulary
  • Discourse
  • Kanji vocabulary education for Chinese learners

Office: N/A
Languages: Japanese
Website
Email: ikuko.komuro.lee@utoronto.ca
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Janet Poole

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Decolonization and mid-century modernism in the Koreas
  • History of literature, art and photography in the Japanese empire
  • Theory and creative practice of literary translation

Office: 416-946-5105
Languages: English
Website
Email: janet.poole@utoronto.ca

Yurou Zhong

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • History of linguistic thought
  • Intersections between technology and writing
  • Media theory
  • Modern Chinese literature and culture
  • Writing systems and literacy

Office: 416-946-7217
Website
Email: yurou.zhong@utoronto.ca