Timothy Goddard

Terasaki Center For Japanese Studies

Established in 1991, the UCLA Terasaki Center has been a platform for research on Japan. Our distinguished faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and the board of advisors have been contributing to the field of Japanese studies for over 20 years.

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Center programs were established with strong support from the local community to promote research and instruction in Japanese studies, with a recent focus on the profound transformations unfolding in contemporary Japanese society.

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Understanding Japan/Japanese culture within a global context.

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Timothy Goddard

Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong

Asian Languages & Cultures PhD, 2013
http://www.japanese.hku.hk/staff/TGoddard.html

Timothy Unverzagt Goddard teaches Japanese literature, film, and cultural history. He received his A.B. in East Asian Studies from Harvard College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles. As a scholar, he employs a multilingual and interdisciplinary methodology in his comparative research on the literature of Japanese empire. His research interests include modernism, colonialism, urban space, and visual culture.

From 2010 to 2011, he was a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture at the University of Tokyo. Prior to his arrival at HKU, he was a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also served as the Asia Research Coordinator for the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, an interdisciplinary group that brings together faculty members and graduate students in such diverse fields as architecture, urban planning, history, philosophy, and anthropology to pursue collaborative research on the city.

He is currently at work on a book manuscript based on his Ph.D. dissertation, “Teito Tokyo: Empire, Modernity, and the Metropolitan Imagination,” exploring literary, visual, and architectural representations of Tokyo as an imperial capital.