The Master's Duty: Tourism qua Critique of Asymetrical Japanese Colonial Policies in Yi Sang's "Miscellaneous Writings by Autumn Lamplight"
Professor John M. Frankl discusses colonial Korean literature under Japanese occupation 1910-1945.
Hilliard Endowment Lecture by John M. Frankl, Ph.D. (2003, Harvard GSAS)
November 19, 2024
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Davidson Math and Science Center (DMSC) Room 104
Professor John M. Frankl is a scholar of Korean and comparative literature. He completed his undergraduate education at UC Berkeley where he majored in East Asian languages, studying both Korean and Mongolian. He went on to complete a master’s degree in modern Korean literature at Yonsei University, where he focused on short fiction from the Japanese colonial period. He then completed a second master’s degree in Regional Studies East Asia and a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, both at Harvard University. His graduate work focused on images of “the foreign” in Korean literary and historical texts. For the past decade, he has moved away from fiction in order to work on the essays of Korea’s premier modernist, Yi Sang (1910–1937). Professor Frankl is currently on sabbatical, affiliated as a Visiting Associate at the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
