Timothy Unverzagt Goddard

Timothy Unverzagt Goddard teaches Japanese literature, film, and cultural history. He received his A.B. in East Asian Studies from Harvard College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of California, Los Angeles. As a scholar, he employs a multilingual and interdisciplinary methodology in his comparative research on the literature of Japanese empire. His research interests include modernism, colonialism, urban space, and visual culture.

From 2010 to 2011, he was a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative Literature and Culture at the University of Tokyo. Prior to his arrival at HKU, he was a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also served as the Asia Research Coordinator for the UCLA Urban Humanities Initiative, an interdisciplinary group that brings together faculty members and graduate students in such diverse fields as architecture, urban planning, history, philosophy, and anthropology to pursue collaborative research on the city.

He is currently at work on a book manuscript based on his Ph.D. dissertation, “Teito Tokyo: Empire, Modernity, and the Metropolitan Imagination,” exploring literary, visual, and architectural representations of Tokyo as an imperial capital.

Companies

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies UC Santa Barbara (2022)
• Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University (2020 — 2022)
• Assistant Professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures The University of Hong Kong (2014 — 2020)
• Asia Research Coordinator, Urban Humanities Initiative UCLA (2013 — 2014)
• Visiting Lecturer, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures UCLA (2013 — 2014)
• Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow University of Tokyo (2010 — 2011)

Education

• Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (2007 — 2013)
• M.A. University of California, Los Angeles (2005 — 2007)
• A.B. Harvard University (1999 — 2003)