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Yuko-Wright

Given Name: 
Yuko
Family Name: 
Eguchi Wright
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Part-Time Faculty
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: 
2703 Cathedral of Learning
Regional specialty: 
Japan
Email Address: 
yue13@pitt.edu
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Chisato-Ninomiya

Given Name: 
Chisato
Family Name: 
Ninomiya
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Rank: 
Part-Time Faculty
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: 
2617 Cathedral of Learning
Regional specialty: 
Japan
Email Address: 
chk55@pitt.edu
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Yukiko-Deutsch

Given Name: 
Yukiko
Family Name: 
Otani Deutsch
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Rank: 
Part-Time Faculty
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
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Japan
Email Address: 
yud16@pitt.edu
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Elizabeth-Oyler

Given Name: 
Elizabeth
Family Name: 
Oyler
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Rank: 
Associate Professor
Department: 
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Office: 
2728 Cathedral of Learning
Office phone number: 
412-624-0559
Regional specialty: 
Japan
Email Address: 
eaoyler@pitt.edu
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Historical and cultural memory in medieval Japanese literature and performing arts
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PhD, Japanese, Stanford University, 1999
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Publications: 
  • Swords, Oaths and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006.
  • Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Noh Plays of the Genpei War. Cornell East Asia Series, 2014. Co-editor, with Michael G. Watson.

 

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stephen_wludarski

Given Name: 
Stephen
Family Name: 
Wludarski
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Rank: 
Staff
Department: 
Asian Studies Center
Office: 
4132 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Office phone number: 
412-648-7411
Regional specialty: 
Japan
Email Address: 
swludarski@pitt.edu
Staff Title: 
Program Manager, NCTA Pittsburgh Coordinating Site
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you have questions about NCTA programming.
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Raja-Adal

Given Name: 
Raja
Family Name: 
Adal
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Rank: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
History
Office: 
WWWPH 3295
Office phone number: 
412-643-5406
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
Japan
Email Address: 
raja.adal@pitt.edu
Area of specialization: 
<p>Japanese history, world history</p>
Qualifications: 
PhD, Harvard University (2009)
Publications: 

"Aesthetics and the End of the Mimetic Moment: The Introduction of Art Education in Japanese and Egyptian Schools," Comparative Studies in Society and History 58, no. 4 (October 2016): 982-1003.
“Kanji bunkaen” [Cultural sphere of Chinese characters], “arufabetto” [Alphabet].  Entries in Gendai shakaigaku jiten [Encyclopedia of Contemporary Social Science].  Tokyo: Kōbundō, 2012.
“Japan’s Bifurcated Modernity: Writing and Calligraphy in Japanese Public Schools, 1872-1943.”  Theory, Culture and Society 26, no. 2-3 (2009): 233-247.
“Shakib Arslan’s Imagining of Europe: The Colonizer, the Inquisitor, the Islamic, the Virtuous, and the Friend.”  In Islam in Europe in the Interwar Period: Networks, Status, Challenges.  Edited by Nathalie Clayer and Eric Germain, 156-182.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2008.

Hiroyuki Nagahashi-Good

Given Name: 
Hiroyuki Nagahashi
Family Name: 
Good
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Department: 
East Asian Library
Office: 
207J Hillman Library
Office phone number: 
412-648-8187
Regional specialty: 
Japan
Email Address: 
hng2@pitt.edu
Area of specialization: 
<p>Open Access; Digital Resources; International Scholarly Communication; Bibliography of Japanese Studies; Information Literacy</p>
Staff Title: 
Japanese Studies Librarian, University Library System
Qualifications: 
MLIS, University of California, Los Angeles, 2004
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2012   From the Chair of the Shashi Group. Essay of from the Editors on peer review and open access e-journal "Shashi: the Journal of Japanese Business and Company History". University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

 

2012    University Libraries are Changing to Encourage More Student Use]. Kagaku Forum (Science Forum), Tokyo University of Science

 

2011    Japanese Company Histories Interest Group (Shashi Group) Current status of studies on Japanese company histories in North America. Journal of Japan Special Libraries Association

 

Clark-Chilson

Given Name: 
Clark
Family Name: 
Chilson
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Associate Professor
Department: 
Religious Studies
Office: 
2610 Cathedral of Learning
Office phone number: 
412-624-5977
Regional specialty: 
East Asia
Japan
Email Address: 
chilson@pitt.edu
Area of specialization: 
<p>Religious Studies; Japanese Religion and Culture</p>
Qualifications: 
PhD, Lancaster University, 2004
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2013    Secrecy’s Power: The Conflicting Consequence of Concealment for Covert Shin Buddhists in Japan, University of Hawai‘i Press 

 

2012    “Preaching as Performance: Notes on a Secretive Shin Buddhist Sermon.” In Studying 

            Buddhism in Practice, edited by John Harding, pp. 142–153. London: Routledge. 

 

2012   “Searching for a Place to Sit: Buddhism in Modern Japan.” In Buddhism in the Modern World, edited by David L. McMahan, pp. 49–68. London: Routledge.