Kerim Yasar holds a Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and a B.A. in Music from Wesleyan University. His dissertation, "Electrified Voices: Media Technology and Discourse in Modern Japan," considers the roles played by technologies of communication and reproduction in the discursive, aesthetic, and ideological practices of post-Meiji Restoration Japan. He has won numerous fellowships over his graduate career, including the Fulbright, Weatherhead, Orient Finance, and Japanese Ministry of Education (Monbusho) Research Scholarship. He has published translations from Japanese in a variety of genres and media, from contemporary Japanese novels to selections from pre-modern verse anthologies to subtitles and documentary materials for Japanese films. Yasar has also gained broad and deep teaching experience in Japanese Studies. He was Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese at Boston University from 2008-9, where he taught courses entitled "Sound Worlds in Japanese Popular Culture," "Masterpieces of Classical Japanese Literature," "Literature of the Fantastic in Modern Japan," and "Representations of the Family in Japanese Cinema." In addition, he served as a Teaching Fellow for three years while a graduate student at Columbia University. At Princeton he will join the faculty team in teaching the year-long interdisciplinary sequence "East Asian Humanities." He will also prepare his dissertation for publication in two volumes, with the first volume treating the period up to the end of World War II and the second, the postwar period to the present.