Undergraduate Research
Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
The Ohio State University Recent Honors Research
Katharine Anne Gabele (2004, Japanese minor)
"Places, Faces, and Spaces in Between: An Exploration of Setting and Identity Formation in the Works of Japanese American Women Authors"
Advisor: Professor Naomi Fukumori
Christopher Merkel (2004, Japanese major)
"A Translation from the Japanese of 'Koku, The Void' (1950), by the Japanese novelist Haniya Yutaka (1910-1997)"
Advisor: Professor William Tyler
Anita Allen (2004, Japanese major)
"A Comparative Study of Early Childhood Discipline in the United States and Japan"
Advisor: Professor Etsuyo Yuasa
Charles Stevens (2005, Japanese major)
"A translation from the Japanese of 'S. Karuma-shi no Hanzai, The Crime of Mr. S. Karma' (1951), by the Japanese novelist Kobo Abe (1924-1993)"
Advisor: Professor William Tyler
Daniel Bradshaw (2006, Japanese major)
"The Unseen World: An Exploration of Contemporary Japanese Short Fiction in Translation"
Advisor: Professor William Tyler
Jennifer Lin (2006, Chinese major)
"Taiwanese: A Study of the Language and its Cultural, Sociological and Historical Significance"
Advisor: Professor Marjorie Chan
Erin Odor (2006, Comparative Studies major)
"Negotiating Cultures, Creating 'China' and 'The West': Translation Work of the Seventeenth-Century Jesuit Missionaries in China"
Advisors: Professor Patricia Sieber and Professor Daniel Reff (Comparative Studies)
Brian Baker (2007, Japanese major)
"Postposing Adnominals in Japanese"
Advisor: Professor Etsuyo Yuasa
Matthew Gerber (2007, Japanese major)
"The Importance of Poetry in Heian-era Romantic Relationships"
Advisor: Professor Naomi Fukumori
George Stey (2007, Japanese major)
"Translation into English of the Scenario (by Kubota Mantaro) of Nagai Kafu's Novel Yume no onna (1903)"
Advisor: Professor William Tyler
Edwin Szeto (2007, Chinese major)
"Thinking Outside the Closet: Negotiations of Taiwanese Gay and Lesbian Subjectivities in Contemporary Fiction, 1994-1998"
Advisor: Professor Patricia Sieber
