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Olga Matich

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Slavic languages and literatures, Russian symbolism and post-Stalin literature, women in Russian literature, Zinaida Gippius, Russian emigre literature, conceptualization of love in Russian culture, theory and practice of private life

Peter B. Zinoman

Dept of History

Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vietnamese literature, Southeast Asian history, communism, nationalism, colonialism

Niklaus Largier sitting in office

Niklaus Largier

Dept of Comparative Literature

theology, anthropology and literature, literature and the visual arts, philosophical anthropology, ritual and religion, religious practice, literature

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

Anthony J,, Cascardi

Anthony J. Cascardi

Dept of Comparative Literature

comparative literature, literature, aesthetics, early modern literature, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Spanish Baroque

Lester Hu

Europe, East Asia, Inner Asia, music, history of music theory

Junko Habu

Dept of Anthropology

Japan, anthropology, archaeology, climate change, sustainability, East Asia, Jomon hunter-gatherers

Dept of History of Art

global modern art, modern and contemporary South and Southeast Asian art

John Lie

Dept of Sociology

social theory, political economy, East Asia

Damon Young standing in front of book shelves full of reading material

Damon Young

Dept of Film and Media

film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory

Mark Danner

Dept of English

School of Journalism

foreign affairs, voting and elections, journalism, Central America, politics, Balkans, Haiti, documentaries, terrorism, the Middle East, contemporary literature, modernist writers, contemporary literature and film

Dept of Ethnic Studies

education, memory, Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American histories and communities, Southeast Asian diaspora, refugees, international migration, transnational and diaspora studies, genocide studies

Stefania Pandolfo

Stefania Pandolfo

Dept of Anthropology

cultural anthropology, Islam, Middle East, theories of subjectivity, postcolonial criticism, anthropology and literature, the Maghreb, mental illness

Rahul Parson in front of the Campanile.

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Hindi Literature

Cover image of Disorientation: France, Vietnam, and the Ambivalence of Interculturality

Karl Britto

Dept of Comparative Literature

Africa, cultural studies, the Caribbean, literature, francophone literature, colonial and postcolonial literature, Vietnam, gender and identity

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

Sanskrit literature

Stephen Best standing at desk with shelves full of book in the background.

Dept of English

film, English literature, African American literature, literary culture, legal culture

Aarti Sethi

Dept of Anthropology

agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, climate change, cinema and media culture, caste, socio-economic inequality, the politics of knowledge, multi-species ethnography

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

pre-modern drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, 19th and 20th century media culture, critical theory

Jonathan Zwicker

Jonathan Zwicker

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

classical Chinese poetry and poetics (3rd-11th centuries), traditional Chinese literary theory, phenomenology, translation, comparative literature, aesthetics, epistemology

Dept of History

gender, history, East Asian studies, early China, the fifth century BC to the fifth century AD, with an emphasis on the sociopolitical context, aesthetic theories and material culture, belief

Julian Chun-Chung

Julian Chun-Chung Chow

School of Social Welfare

East Asian studies, social welfare, community practice and service delivery in urban poverty, ethnic, immigrant neighborhoods, community analysis and needs assessment, program planning and development, cultural competency services

Timothy Tangherlini

Timothy Tangherlini

Dept of Scandinavian

School of Information

folklore, Danish culture, Danish cinema, Danish literature, 19th and 20th Century Scandinavian literature, digital humanities, culture analysis, machine learning, networks, Korean culture, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship