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Department

Dan O'Neill

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian literatures and cinema, environmental humanities and media theory

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies

Colleen Lye

Dept of English

postcolonial theory, Marxism, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature

Steven Lee

Dept of English

twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, diaspora, Korean studies, Soviet and post-Soviet studies

Mark Blum talk at VESAK Celebration 2023

Mark Blum

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization

Yumi Kim

Dept of History

Japan, Korea, women's studies, gender studies, medicine, religion, colonialism, Asian diaspora

Andrew Way Leong

Dept of English

19th century American literature, 20th and 21st century American literature, Asian American, Pacific, critical theory, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies

Dept of History

history, East Asian studies, Qing and Modern China, maritime Asia, Taiwan, Pacific Rim societies

Robert Sharf standing with group of students in library, holding a plague and flowers

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion

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

Andrew F. Jones

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

East Asian languages and cultures, Chinese popular music, sonic culture, media technology, modern Chinese fiction, children's literature, literary translation

Poulomi Saha standing in front of decorative wood panels, hands in pockets

Dept of English

Asian American studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory, spirituality, comparative race and gender, cults

Miryam Sas in outdoor environment

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

Junko Habu

Dept of Anthropology

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

Xin Liu

Dept of Anthropology

history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, social/cultural anthropology, comparative societies, capitalism and culture, America and China/East Asia

Elora Shehabuddin

Elora Shehabuddin

Dept of Gender and Women's Studies

transnational feminism, history and politics of feminist movement, activism, left-wing politics in the Global South, critical approaches to development, political economy, South Asia, Middle East, Global South, United States

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

China, lyric poetry, Chinese literature, Chinese culture, poetic theory

Jinsoo An in outdoor setting with memorial sculpture in background

Jinsoo An

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Korean cinema, Korean culture

Jacob Dalton in outside environment

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Dept of South and Southeast Asian Studies

religion, ritual, Tibet, Buddhism, Tantra, Dunhuang

Alan Tansman in outdoor setting

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Modern Japanese Literature, literary and cultural theory, aesthetics and politics, Comparative Responses to Violence, literary history

Barshay in Edinburgh

Dept of History

social thought, social sciences in modern Japan, Marxism, Japanese history, Japanese-Russian relations

Sophie Volpp standing in outside setting.

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

Prof. Vinod K. Aggarwal picture

Vinod K. Aggarwal

Dept of Political Science

political science, negotiations, trade policy, international organizations, international debt rescheduling

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Japanese linguistics, syntax/semantics, pragmatics, phonetics, cognitive linguistics