Dr. Ross King is a Canadian academic. He is currently Professor of Korean Language and Literature in the Asian Studies Department at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, B.C.). Dr. King describes his primary research interests as follows:
"History of language, writing and literary culture in the Sinographic cultural sphere, with a specific focus on medieval Korea and the interplay of cosmopolitan and vernacular in other regions of the Sinographic cosmopolis"
His research interests also include Korean historical linguistics & dialectology.
Dr. King received a B.A. in Linguistics (Japanese-Korean) and Political Science from Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) in 1983. He earned both his M.A. in Linguistics (1986) & Ph.D. in LingDr. Ross King is a Canadian academic. He is currently Professor of Korean Language and Literature in the Asian Studies Department at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, B.C.). Dr. King describes his primary research interests as follows:
"History of language, writing and literary culture in the Sinographic cultural sphere, with a specific focus on medieval Korea and the interplay of cosmopolitan and vernacular in other regions of the Sinographic cosmopolis"
His research interests also include Korean historical linguistics & dialectology.
Dr. King received a B.A. in Linguistics (Japanese-Korean) and Political Science from Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) in 1983. He earned both his M.A. in Linguistics (1986) & Ph.D. in Linguistics (1991) from Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)....more