Kerim Yasar
Research & Practice Areas
Modern Japanese literature and cinema; media theory and history; auditory culture and musicology; translation theory and praxis; performance studies and the history of Japanese film acting
Biography
I specialize in modern Japanese literature and cinema, media history, and translation studies. My first book, Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945 (Columbia University Press, 2018), examines the roles played by the telegraph, telephone, phonograph, radio, and sound film in the discursive, aesthetic, and ideological practices of Japan from 1868 to 1945. My second project, tentatively entitled Gestures in Light: The Body in Japanese Cinema, is a critical and theoretical meditation on physical expressivity and representations of the body in Japanese film from...
Education
- M.Phil. East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
- Ph.D. East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
- B.A. Music, Wesleyan University
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Tenure Track Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Japanese, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 2013 – 2017
PostDoctoral Appointments
- East Asian Studies-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, 2009 – 2012
Visiting and Temporary Appointments
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of Notre Dame, 2012-2013
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese, Boston University, 2008-2009
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Research Specialties
Modern Japanese literature and cinema; media theory and history; auditory culture and musicology; translation theory and praxis; performance studies and the history of Japanese film acting
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Book
Yasar, K. (2018). Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868-1945. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.