Christopher P. Hanscom

Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

Christopher P. Hanscom is an associate professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA.  Author of The Real Modern: Literary Modernism and the Crisis of Representation in Colonial Korea (2013), co-editor of Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society from the Japanese Colonial Era (2013), and co-editor of The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empire (2016), he has also published on the relationship between science and literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea with ”Matters of Fact: Language, Science, and the Status of Truth in Late Colonial Korea” (Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, 2014) and as co-editor of a special issue of the Journal of Korean Studies on science and literature in the Korean context (forthcoming, Fall 2018).