PhD guidance

[Eija Niskanen]

Don't forget SOAS with Isolde Standish.

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:29 PM,  <mjraine at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> Thanks to Aaron and Joanne for fleshing out the list of
> graduate programs for studying Japanese film. Perhaps
> KineJapan should develop some kind of web page with (brief!)
> descriptions of the various options.
>
> In answer to the original question: Chicago now has in place a
> joint PhD program in East Asian Cinema. There are over a dozen
> students in Cinema and Media Studies and East Asian Languages
> and Civilizations working toward dissertations on Chinese,
> Japanese, and/or Korean cinema. There's a short description here:
> http://ealc.uchicago.edu/joint_program.shtml.
>
> Always happy to answer questions by email.
>
> Michael
>
> ---- Original message ----
>>________________
>>Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 16:16:48 -0400
>>From: <dburall1 at rochester.rr.com>
>>Subject: Re: Ph D Guidance
>>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>>
>>A couple of other possibilities Aaron has forgotten below
> (universities with recognized Japanese cinema scholars--I am
> sure more will come to mind as soon as I send this, it's a
> rapidly growing field):
>>
>>Concordia (Catherine Russell)
>>Arizona State University (Sybil Thornton)
>>University of Rochester
>>
>>I'm at the University of Rochester, where you have several
> options for graduate work as well. One asset here is UR's
> close proximity to and formal collaboration with the George
> Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
> The holdings of the Motion Picture Department are extensive:
> the archive is one of the four largest in the country (the
> others are UCLA, LOC, and MoMA).
>>
>>Best of luck,
>>
>>Joanne Bernardi
>>
>>---- Aaron Gerow <aaron.gerow at yale.edu> wrote:
>>> I've answered this question before, so here is a recycling
> of the
>>> last time I did this.
>>>
>>> If you are also thinking about the United States or Canada,
> there are
>>> a number of places you can look into. Primarily that would
> involve
>>> investigating the universities where a recognized Japanese
> film
>>> scholar teaches (most belong to this list). Here is just a
> brief
>>> list, in no particular order other than I put our program
> first:
>>>
>>> Yale University (we have a separate PhD program in East
> Asian cinema)
>>> University of Michigan (Mark Nornes)
>>> University of Chicago (Michael Raine)
>>> New York University (Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto)
>>> University of Minnesota (Mark Anderson)
>>> University of Oregon (Daisuke Miyao)
>>> University of Kansas (Michael Baskett)
>>> McGill University (Tom Lamarre)
>>> University of Florida (Maureen Turim, Scott Nygren, Joe Murphy)
>>> University of Toronto (Eric Cazdyn)
>>> Carleton University (Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano)
>>> University of Southern California (Anne McKnight, Akira Lippit)
>>> University of California, Irvine (Jonathan Hall)
>>>
>>> (Forgive me if I omitted anything or if anything is out of
> date. Send
>>> in your own program if I've forgotten it.)
>>>
>>> These can be quite different programs and possibilities
> (some are
>>> only MAs), but do some web surfing and also write to these
> people.
>>> Most will have some form of financial aid for doctoral
> students,
>>> though the level can vary depending on the institution. You
> can also
>>> try some of the top schools for film studies or Japan
> studies that
>>> currently do not have a Japan film specialist (Berkeley,
> Wisconsin,
>>> etc.) and do some of your studies on your own (that is what
> a lot of
>>> us had to do).
>>>
>>> By the way, the description of the Yale program is here:
>>>
>>> http://www.yale.edu/eall/combined.html
>>>
>>> Happy hunting!
>>>
>>> Aaron Gerow
>>> Assistant Professor
>>> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
>>> Yale University
>>> 53 Wall Street, Room 316
>>> PO Box 208363
>>> New Haven, CT 06520-8363
>>> USA
>>> Phone: 1-203-432-7082
>>> Fax: 1-203-432-6764
>>> e-mail: aaron.gerow at yale.edu
>>>
>>>
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