Yi, Eun Jeong
Professor
Office: College of Humanities Building 14, Room 404
Phone: 880-9106
Email: eyl@snu.ac.kr
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University
Statement
Professor Yi Enu Jeong received her PhD in History of Middle East from Harvard University.
Publications
Guild Dynamics in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: Fluidity and Leverage, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2004.
Popular protest and political participation in the Ottoman Empire : Studies in honor of Suraiya Faroqhi(共著), Istanbul Bilgi Universitesi Yayinlari, 2011.
“The Economic and Social Roles of Janissaries in a Seventeenth-Century Ottoman City: The Case of Istanbul, by Gulay Yılmaz”, Dissertation Reviews, 2014.5.
Ku, Hawon
Assistant Professor
College of Humanities Building 5, Room 422
880-8620
hawonku@snu.ac.kr
Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Statement
Art History of India.
Publications
-「근대성의 건축: 식민 치하 인도 칼리지와 대학교 건축의 고찰」,『인도연구』 21권 1호 (2016): 1-32
-「식민치하 인도 ‘종교’대학의 의의와 한계 – 알리가르 무슬림 대학교와 바나라스 힌두 대학교를 중심으로」,『인문논총』 제73권 제1호 (2016): 233-269.
강희정, 조인수 공저, 『클릭 아시아 미술』(예경, 2015)
-「아가한 건축상과 남아시아 현대 이슬람 건축의 이해」,『한국이슬람학회논총』, 25권 1호 (2015): 1-29
-“Representations of Ownership: The Nineteenth-Century Painted Maps of Shatrunjaya, Gujarat.” South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies vol. 37 no.1 (2014): 3-21.
-「윌리엄 존스(William Jones)와『마누법전(Mānava Dharmaśāstra)』의 번역」,『인도연구』 제18권 2호 (2013): 1-34)
-스튜어트 고든 저, 구하원 역, 『아시아가 세계였을 때』(까치 2010)
Yeo, Woonkyung
Assistant Professor
College of Humanities Building 5, Room 418
880-8619
Email: wkyeo@snu.ac.kr
Education
Ph.D., University of Washington
Statement
History of Modern and Contemporary Southeast asian.
Publications
「1950-60년대 인도네시아의 정치적 혼란과 셀레베스 해(Celebes Sea) 밀무역」, 『문화역사지리』 26-1(2014)
「1950년대 인도네시아 지역반란과 화인사회: 국민당계의 몰락을 중심으로」, 『아태연 구』 21-1(2014)
「근대로 향하는 길? 무시 대교(Musi Bridge)를 통해서 본 도로건설과 지역개발의 상관 관계」, 『동남아시아연구』 24-1(2014)
『작가의 망명: 인도네시아의 대문호 프라무댜 아난타 투르와의 대화』서울: 후마니타 스, 2011(역서)
Alena Kulinich
Assistant Professor
College of Humanities Building 5, Room 427
880-8301
akulinich@snu.ac.kr
Education
Ph.D., SOAS, University of London
Statement
Islam Studies
Publications
“Rethinking Muʿtazilite tafsīr: from essence to history.” Religion and Culture, Seoul National University 29 (2015): 227–262.
“Beyond theology: Muʿtazilite scholars and their authority in al-Rummānī’s tafsīr.” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 78/1 (2015): 135–148.
Siavash Saffari
Assistant Professor
College of Humanities Building 5, Room 413
880-6281
ssaffari@snu.ac.kr
Education
Ph.D., University of Alberta
Statement
Siavash Saffari is an Assistant Professor of West Asian Studies. He teaches modern Islamic thought and modern West Asian history and politics. His areas of research include modern Iranian social and intellectual history, post-19th century Islamic thought, and the history of modernity and coloniality in West Asia. His publications include several journal articles and book chapters, as well as a monograph titled Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism and Islam in Iranian Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Publications
Reclaiming Islam and Modernity: A Neo-Shariati Revisiting of Ali Shariati\’s Intellectual Discourse in Post-revolutionary Iran, 2013.9
“The Post-Islamist Turn and the Contesting Visions of Democratic Public Religion”, 2014.12
“Rethinking the Islam/Modernity Binary: Ali Shariati and Religiously Mediated Discourse of Sociopolitical Development”, 2015.6
“Alternative Development(s), or Alternative(s) to Development?: Challenges and Prospects for Genuine Alternative-building”, 2013.1
“Limitations of Dialogue: Conflict Resolution in the Context of Power Asymmetries and Neglected Differences”, 2012.10
Saito Ayumi
Assistant Professor
College of Humanities Building 5, Room 428
880-9261
ayumi2012@snu.ac.kr
Education
Ph.D., University of Tokyo
Statement
Japanese Medieval Literature
Publications
『이야기의 공간』(공저),2006.7
『고대 중세 문학 논고 19』 (공저),2007.5
『강좌 겐지 연구 4 』(공저),2007.6
「“거울”의 종언」, 『고대 중세 문학 논고』19, 2007.5
「“마스카가미”에 한 상감」, 『강좌 겐지 연구』4, 2007.6
「중세의 역사 이야기」, 『해석과 감상』75-2, 2010.12
Seo, Young Chae
Distinguished Professor
Office: College of Humanities Building 5, Room 429
880-6041
ycseo@snu.ac.kr
Education
Ph.D., Seoul National University
Statement
Professor Seo Young Chae received his PhD in Korean literature from Seoul National University. His current research areas include: Korean Literature, Criticism Theory and East Asian Modern.
Publications
『인문학 개념정원』, 문학동네, 2013.
『미메시스의 힘』, 문학동네, 2012.
『아첨의 영웅주의』, 소명출판, 2011.
『문학의 윤리』, 문학동네, 2005.
『사랑의 문법』, 민음사, 2004.
Yoon, Sang In (retired)
Professor, the dean of a faculty
College of Humanities Building 5, Room 430
880-6423
yoonsi@snu.ac.kr
Education
Ph.D., University of Tokyo
Statement
Professor Yoon Sang In received his PhD from Tokyo University. His research focuses on
Japanese Modern and Contemporary Literature; Comparative Literature.
Publications
『세기말과 나쓰메 소세키世紀末と漱石』, 이와나미(岩波)서점, 1994,2011
*2011년 ‘현대의 명저:이와나미 인문서 셀렉션10’에 선정되어 재출판
『월경하는 언어: 세계와 만나는 일본문학越境する言の葉－世界と出会う日本文学, 日本比較文学会편』, 彩流社, 2011. (공저)
『문학과 근대와 일본』, 문학과지성사, 2009
『동아시아 지식인의 삶과 학문』, 성균관대학교출판부, 2009(공저)
『일본문학번역60년 현황과 분석』, 소명출판, 2008(공저)
Travis L. Smith (retired)
Associate Professor
Sanskrit Literature, Indian Religious
College of Humanities Building 5, Room 420
880-4094
tlsmith@snu.ac.kr
Education
Ph.D., Columbia University
Statement
Associate Professor Travis L. Smith studied Sanskrit language and South Asian religions at the University of California, Berkeley and at Columbia University (Ph.D. 2007), and taught at the University of Florida before joining the SNU faculty in 2014. He teaches courses on the classical literature and thought of South Asia, as well as courses in Sanskrit language. His research interests center on the Sanskrit Purāṇas and their role in the early development of Hinduism. His forthcoming book manuscript focuses on the Kāśīkhaṇḍa, an extensive literary panegyric praising the ancient pilgrimage city of Varanasi.
Publications
Glorifying Varanasi: the Vārāṇasī-Māhātmya Tradition of the Sanskrit Purāṇas (working title). Book manuscript. In progress.
“Varanasi Envisioned: Approaches to the Purāṇic Māhātmyas” in I. Keul, ed., Banaras Revisited: Scholarly Pilgrimages to the City of Light. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrasowitz, forthcoming 2014. In press.
“Textuality on the Brahamanical ‘Frontier’: Reassessing the Sanskrit Purāṇas.” for Philological Encounters (a journal of Projekt Zukunftsphilologie) 1, no 1 (forthcoming 2014).
Jacobsen, Knut, ed. Brill\’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism, 4 vols. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2010. Entry on “Tantras” vol. 2: 168-181.
“Re-newing the Ancient: the Kāśīkhaṇḍa and Śaiva Vārāṇasī.” In Literary Construction of Place as Religious and Social Commentary in Asia. Special issue of Acta Orientalia Vilnensia 8, no. 1 (2007): 83-108.
Cush, D., C. Robinson, and M. York, eds. The Encyclopaedia of Hinduism, Encyclopaedia of Asian Religions. London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2007. Entries on “Mahāvrata,” “Śaiva Siddhānta,” “Śaivism,” “Saptapuri (Seven Sacred Cities),” “Śiva” and “Yantra.”
“Lament for a \’Living Literature\’” Biblio: A Review of Books 9, nos. 3-4 (March-April 2006): 24-25.
Book review of Sushil Mittal, ed., Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern India (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003) in Itinerario 29, no. 1 (2005): 179-181.
