Wali Ahmadi Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Persian literature, literary theory and criticism, cultural history, Afghanistan
Mark Blum Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization
Paula Varsano 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
Kevin Shadel Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Korean literature and culture, comparative literature, critical theory, marxism, posthumanism, psychoanalysis
Ahmad Diab Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures Arabic literature, translation studies, Arabic philology, postcolonial studies, linguistics, Middle Eastern Cinema
Aglaya Glebova Dept of History of Art Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures Soviet art, photography, European avant-gardes, global modern art
Edward Tyerman Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures cultural connections and exchanges between Russia and China, early Soviet culture, socialist internationalism, post-socialism, politics and aesthetics
Paola Bacchetta Dept of Gender and Women's Studies transnational feminist and queer theory, decolonial feminist and queer theory, activisms / artivisms / practices / movements /alliances / right-wings, geographic specializations: U.S.; France; India; Italy; Brazil
Yoko Hasegawa Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Japanese linguistics, syntax/semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, cognitive linguistics
Alan Tansman Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history
Mark A. Csikszentmihalyi Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures early China, Confucianism, Taoism, Daoism, Comparative Religion
Niek Veldhuis Dept of Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures digital humanities, intellectual history, Sumerian, cuneiform, Mesopotamia
Daniel O'Neill Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures East Asian literatures and cinema, gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities and media theory
Jonathan Zwicker Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures literature and cultural history of early-modern and modern Japan
Sophie Volpp Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Chinese literature, Ming and Qing fiction and drama, material culture, pre-modern women poets and dramatists
Jacob Dalton Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies religion, ritual, Tibet, Buddhism, Tantra, Dunhuang
Laura Sterponi School of Education neurodiversity, discourse analysis, autistic communication, doctor-patient interaction
Miryam Sas Dept of Comparative Literature Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures Dept of Film and Media 20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory, memory studies
Kristin Hanson Dept of English linguistics, English, poetry, meter, rhyme, alliteration, textsetting, phonological theory, English grammar and usage