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Kerim Yasar

Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese

• BA, Wesleyan University
• MA, Columbia University
• MPhil, Columbia University
• PhD, Columbia University (expected October 2008)

Kerim Yasar's areas of specialization are modern Japanese literature, film, and cultural studies. His research interests include media theory and history, translation theory and praxis, auditory culture, body/culture interfaces (medicine, physical regimens, tattooing, etc.), temporality, and performativity. He is currently preparing a book manuscript entitled Electrified Voices: Media Technology and Discourse in Modern Japan that examines the reception and cultural functions of various media technologies in Japan from the late nineteenth century to the present. He is also an active translator, with two novels and dozens of feature-film subtitle translations to his credit (including the Criterion Collection releases of Kurosawa's High and Low, Ozu's Late Spring, and Mizoguchi's Ugetsu).