Dr. Michael Wood
Assistant Professor, Instructional Faculty Director, Japanese Studies Program
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Department of World Languages
and Cultures
Office Location: DeMille Hall 120 A
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 10-11am and by appointment
Phone: 714-997-6842
Email: mwood@chapman.edu
- Education:
- Kenyon College, Bachelor of Arts
University of Oregon, Master of Arts
University of Oregon, Ph.D.
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- Language consultant and calligrapher for _Behind the Lines_ (John Benitz, dir.): A film based on the book of the same title by Chapman Presidential Fellow, Andrew Carroll
- Performed guitar and other stringed instrument parts with Darius Miertschin (Chapman '24) for "Duet No. 2" composed by Professor Adam Borecki (CoPA) at Monk's Space LA.
- Interpreter and interlocutor for _An Evening with Hirokazu Kore'eda_ (with Professor Nam Lee) and screening of _Monster_.
- Language consultant and calligrapher for Chapman Opera production of _From the Towers of the Moon_ by Robert Moran (Marc Callahan, faculty director). Performed at Musco Center for the Arts
- “Getting the Story Right: A Castaway’s Travels in Korea and the Textual Genealogy that Followed,” (co-written with Stephen W. Kohl) in _Bochumer Jahrbuch Zur Ostasienforschung_ [Bochum Yearbook of East Asian Studies] Vol. 36(2012) (Marion Eggert, ed.) (Munich: IUDCIUM Verlag, 2014), pp. 27-43.