RIJS People

Graduate Students: Q-Z

Yongwook RYU (Government) yryu@fas.harvard.edu
Yongwook is a third-year doctoral candidate in the Department of Government, specializing in international relations of East Asia, IPE, and identity. Before coming to Harvard, he was a happy undergraduate concentrator in economics and political science at The University of Auckland, New Zealand. His current research interests concern international finance, and territorial issues in East Asia.

Emi SHIMOKAWA (EALC) shimokaw@fas.harvard.edu
Emi earned her undergraduate degree in Japanese and English literature at Wellesley College, also spending a year at Waseda University in Japan. Afterwards she received an M.A. at Columbia in modern Japanese literature. At Harvard her interests focus on modern poetry and the literature of the immediate prewar period. 

Glynne WALLEY (EALC) walley@fas.harvard.edu
Glynne is a Ph.D. student studying Japanese literature. Glynne first went to Japan as an undergraduate in 1989. After finishing a BA in Asian Studies and Japanese at Brigham Young University in 1996, he spent an additional three years in Japan, most of it teaching at a high school in Kanagawa-ken. Subsequently he attended Washington University in St. Louis, where he completed an MA in Japanese literature in 1999. His thesis was on the Akutagawa Prize in the 1980s. Now he is interested in late Edo fiction, particularly Takizawa Bakin.  His dissertation will focus on Bakin's Nanso Satomi Hakkenden.