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I am a historian and curator of East Asia at Laurier Brantford. For over 15 years, I served as Curatorial Consultant and Research Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum and has worked as the guest curator for the museum’s Korea Gallery. I am also a digital humanist and have been involved in Deep Mapping projects on Brantford’s immigration history. I am currently building a multi-lingual Linked Open Database of classical Korean poetry talks (sihwa). Since 2022, I have been serving as the President of the Canadian Industrial Heritage Centre and the Director of the Laurier Hub for Community Solutions.
My academic work has focused on the investigation of various cultural and intellectual developments in East Asia and beyond. My research interests encompass art, literature and cultural history of East Asia, digital humanities, and game studies. My recent research examines poetry games in both classical literature of premodern Korea and digital literature of contemporary South Korea. I recently completed a SSHRC-funded research, “Comparative Spatial Histories of Brantford’s Early Immigrant Communities (1900-1920): A Deep Mapping and Digital Storytelling Project.”
I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of Korean and Chinese cultural and intellectual history, public history, and digital humanities.
“시화총림(詩話叢林) 연구를 통해 살펴보는 한문학 데이터 편찬,” in 디지털로 읽고 데이터로 쓰다— 디지털 환경에서의 한국어문학 모색 (Seoul: Bangmunsa, 2023), 215-234. (Co-authored with Chi Yeongwon)
Contact Info:
E: chan@wlu.ca
Office location: RCW316
Office hours: By appointment.
Languages spoken: English, Korean, Mandarin Chinese