Ph D Guidance

[Aaron Gerow]

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(Forgive me if I omitted anything or if anything is out of date.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