Dr Gregory Evon
PhD, Australian National University
Dr Gregory Evon completed his BA and MA in Korean and East Asian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington and then came to the Australian National University to continue his PhD under Prof. Ken Wells.
He has published articles on the Buddhist literature of Han Yongun (1879-1944), on the classical poetry of Kim Sisup (1435-1493) and Yi Kyubo (1168-1241), as well as articles on premodern Korean literary and intellectual history, often dealing with Buddhism.
Select Publications
Salvaging Buddhism to Save Confucianism in Choson Korea (1392-1910),?Cambria Press: Amherst, New York, 2023,?
"Script Apartheid and Literary Production in Pre-modern Korea: Framing Pollocks Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in East Asia," in Ross King (ed.),?Cosmopolitan and Vernacular in the World of Wen : Reading Sheldon Pollock from the Sinographic Cosmopolis, Brill:?Leiden and Boston, 2023: pp.?349-377.?
'Buddhism and Statecraft in Korea: The Long View', in?Balkwill S; Benn JA?(ed.),?Buddhist Statecraft in East Asia,?Brill: Leiden and Boston, 2022: pp. 119 - 139,?
'Han Yongun, Fukuzawa Yukichi, and Questions of Nationalism and Colonialism', in?Kim HI; Park JY?(ed.),?New Perspectives in Modern Korean Buddhism: Institution, Gender, and Secular Society,?SUNY Press:?Albany, 2022: pp. 211 - 232,?
'Kim Sis?p', in?Silk JA?(ed.),?Brill's Encyclopedia of Buddhism Volume II, Lives,?Handbook of Oriental Studies.,?Leiden and Boston, 2019: pp. 873 - 876,?
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The Current Situation of Korean Romanization in Australia and Oceania, in ??? ed., ?? ?????? ?????? ???? ???? (Seoul: Hanyang University), pp. 75-84.
?"Uncovering Korean Textual and Literary Histories: A Critical Review of Recent Scholarship on Koreas Literary Past, International Review of Korean Studies 6(1), January-December 2009, pp. 155-186.
"The Conservation of Knowledge and the Technology of the Word in Korea, Asian Studies Review 33(1), March 2009, pp. 1-19.
"Chinese Contexts, Korean Realities: The Politics of Literary Genre in Late Chos?n (1392-1910) Korea, East Asian History (32/33), December 2006/June 2007? [published 2008], pp. 57-82.
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?"??????? ????? ?? (The Riddle of Alphabetic Print in Korean History), ????? 43, May 2008, pp. 249-258.
"Brushes and Booze in the Poetry of Yi Kyubo (1168-1241), The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia (Sydney University), 2004/2005, vol. 36-37, pp. 122-149.
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?"Remembering the Past, Condemned to the Present: The Imaginative Retreat of Kim Sis?p (1435-1493), International Review of Korean Studies (KAREC, The University of New South Wales), 2004, 1(1), pp. 49-81. ?
? "Contestations over Korean Buddhist Identities: The Introduction to the Ky?ngh?jip,, The Review of Korean Studies (The Academy of Korean Studies), vol. 4, no. 1, June 2001, pp. 11-33.
Ghostly Voices and Their Avatar: Buddhist Resonances in Han Yonguns Enlightenment Verse, The Review of Korean Studies (The Academy of Korean Studies), vol. 3, no. 1, September 2000,? pp. 93-122.
?"Eroticism and Buddhism in Han Yonguns Your Silence, Korean Studies (Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii), vol. 24 (Winter,2000), pp. 25-52.
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Korea Research Institute (KRI@)
My Teaching
Teaching areas include:
? Korean Culture and History
? Japanese Culture and History
? Comparative Korean and Japanese History
? East Asia
Courses taught include:
ARTS2211 - East Asia
ARTS2662 - Korea at a Glance
ARTS2633 - A Cultural Survey of Japan
ARTS3640 - Japan and Korea: Cultures in Conflict
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