Maji Christine Rhee, Ph.D. (Rutgers University) Korean/Japanese Language & Literature

Professor Rhee received her Ed.D. in education focusing on a comparison of knowledge formation in Japan, Korea, and the United States from Rutgers University. Prof. Rhee's writing and research specialty are divided into three areas: the languages of the two Koreas, romantic condition in contemporary Japanese literature, and gender and knowledge in Japan and Korea. She teaches courses in Korean and Japanese languages, and participates in courses taught in the International Studies Program. Professor Rhee's recent publications include The Doomed Empire: Japan in Colonial Korea (Ashgate, 1997) and Gender and the Law (Asian Cultural Studies, v.25, 1999). She has served as a director of the Oregon-Japan Study Program at Waseda University located in Tokyo, Japan. She is currently serving as a research member of the Korean Unification Council where she regularly contributes her writing on Japan, South Korea and North Korea.

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Phone: 503-725-5282
Email: rheem@pdx.edu