Personal profile

Biography

Daniel Pieper is a Korea Foundation Lecturer in Korean Studies at Monash University. He specializes in modern Korean language and literary history. His current research focuses on the emergence of vernacular Korean as a discrete subject in the modern school, the textual differentiation process of cosmopolitan Hanmun and vernacular Korean, and the role of language ideology in directing language standardization in pre-colonial and colonial-era Korea. His most recent book is titled Redemption and Regret: Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale (2021) and examines themes of vernacularization, linguistic modernity, and literary translation in the missionary’s unpublished writings.

Education

I joined Monash in June of 2022 as a Korea Foundation Lecturer in Korean Studies. Prior to this, I was a Lecturer in the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department at Washington University in St. Louis (2019-2022). Before that I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia (2018-2019) and a Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Washington University (2017-2018).

I received a BA in Political Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia (1999-2003). Following graduation, I taught English for six years in Gunsan and Daejeon, South Korea where I developed a keen interest in Korean history and culture, and especially the Korean language and education system. I returned to graduate school and received an MA in East Asian Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, where I wrote a thesis on the Korean Language Movement in colonial Korea (1910-1945). I went on to do a PhD at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, writing a dissertation titled “Korean as a Transitional Literacy: Language Education, Curricularization, and the Vernacular-Cosmopolitan Interface in Early Modern Korea, 1895-1925,” which investigated the emergence of vernacular Korean as a subject in modern schools immediately before and during the Korean colonial period. The dissertation was completed in conjunction with a Fulbright Junior Researcher Fellowship which supported my research at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea (2016-2017).

 

Supervision interests

I am available to supervise HDR students in the following areas: 

Korean sociolinguistics

The cultural history of Korean

Vernacularization in Korea and East Asia

Translation theory and pedagogy

Language ideology and language policy

Literary history

Missionaries in Korea

Please contact me to discuss your proposed area of study. 

  

Monash teaching commitment

Teaching

 

I spent six years teaching English as a foreign language at private schools, elementary, middle, high schools, and universities in Gunsan and Daejeon, South Korea. In graduate school and as a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer I have taught a range of courses on Korea, including pre-modern and modern Korean history, contemporary Korean culture, pre-modern and contemporary Korean literature, the history of the Korean language, North and South history and relations, and Korean cinema. I have also taught the Korean language at all levels, including literary translation workshops. 

Education/Academic qualification

Asian Studies, PhD, Korean as a Transitional Literacy: Language Education, Curricularization, and the Vernacular-Cosmopolitan Interface in Early Modern Korea, 1895-1925, University of British Columbia

1 Sept 201117 May 2017

Award Date: 17 May 2017

East Asian Studies, MA, Han'gul for the Nation, The Nation for Han'gul: The Korean Language Movement, 1894-1945, Washington University in St Louis

1 Sept 200915 May 2011

Award Date: 15 May 2011

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