Timothy Iles, University of Victoria
Associate Professor
Pacific and Asian Studies
Victoria, British Columbia
timiles@uvic.ca
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Timothy Iles has both a BA (completed very, very slowly) and an MA (completed at a moderate rate) from the University of British Columbia, where he focussed on the Japanese language and modern Japanese literature, writing his thesis on Akutagawa Ryūnosuke. He holds a PhD (completed very, very qui...
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Timothy Iles has both a BA (completed very, very slowly) and an MA (completed at a moderate rate) from the University of British Columbia, where he focussed on the Japanese language and modern Japanese literature, writing his thesis on Akutagawa Ryūnosuke. He holds a PhD (completed very, very quickly) from the University of Toronto, writing his dissertation on the avant-garde novelist, Abe Kōbō. He later published his dissertation as Abe Kōbō: An Exploration of his Prose, Drama, and Theatre (Fucheccio: European Press Academic Publishers, 2000).
He has taught Japanese literature (modern and premodern), culture (modern and premodern), theatre, cinema, and language (modern and classical) in both Canada and the United States, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Teaching is his forté and something for which he feels a tremendous responsibility in his role as guide for his many and diverse students. His teaching interests are firmly grounded in the traditions of the Humanities—the historical contextualisation of ideas and their textual expression.
His research interests are in narrative. This term accommodates many forms and intricacies. Of especial concern are the process and mechanism of narration in the medium of cinema—and the associated thematic issues which narrative presents. Timothy Iles has published numerous books and analytical articles on various thematic problems in film, both Japanese and Asian. He is also General Editor of the online electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies,, where he publishes film and book reviews, as well as other essays.
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He has taught Japanese literature (modern and premodern), culture (modern and premodern), theatre, cinema, and language (modern and classical) in both Canada and the United States, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Teaching is his forté and something for which he feels a tremendous responsibility in his role as guide for his many and diverse students. His teaching interests are firmly grounded in the traditions of the Humanities—the historical contextualisation of ideas and their textual expression.
His research interests are in narrative. This term accommodates many forms and intricacies. Of especial concern are the process and mechanism of narration in the medium of cinema—and the associated thematic issues which narrative presents. Timothy Iles has published numerous books and analytical articles on various thematic problems in film, both Japanese and Asian. He is also General Editor of the online electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies,
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