William Carroll, PhD
Pronouns: He/him/his
Contact
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts - East Asian Studies Dept
- wcarroll@ualberta.ca
- Address
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3-37 Pembina Hall
8921 - 116 St NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H8
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Modern and Contemporary Japanese Culture Visual Arts and Media in Japan East Asian Cinema
Courses
EASIA 342 - Anime: Process, History, and Aesthetics
Survey of Japanese anime focused on history of the animation industry in Japan, processes and aesthetics of Japanese animation, anime's role in contemporary Japanese popular culture, and global fandoms of anime. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 or FS 100.
EASIA 422 - Urban Crime Film in East Asia
Seminar on the crime genre in East Asian cinema, focusing on how it visualizes unseen and illicit networks of interaction in urban spaces in the modern and contemporary metropolises of Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. Prerequisite: EASIA 101 or FS 100.
EASIA 599 - Directed Reading in East Asian Studies
May be repeated for credit when course content differs. Prerequisite: Consent of Department.
JAPAN 429 - Japanese-English Translation
Theory and practice in translation as applied to Japanese and English literary and non-literary texts. Prerequisite or corequisite: JAPAN 401 or consent of Department.
JAPAN 439 - Practical Translation
The practice of translation in media, government, and business. Prerequisite: JAPAN 429 or consent of Department.
Featured Publications
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Columbia University Press. 2022 July;
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Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. 2022 March; 10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.667
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Japanese Horror Culture Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games. 2021 November;
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Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies. 2020 March; 46 (1):57-78 10.6240/concentric.lit.202003_46(1).0004
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Cinéma&Cie. 2019 August; 19 (32):15-26
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Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema. 2018 March; 10 (1):47-60 10.1080/17564905.2018.1450471
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