Faculty

Director of Asian & Asian American Studies Program
Associate Chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures

Research Areas: Chinese, Modern Chinese Literature and Film

Research Areas: East Asian politics and international relations

Research Areas: Protestant Christianity in Francophone Caribbean; Transnational Korean Religions; (De)Coloniality; Gender Studies; Theory and Method of Religion

Research Areas: Sociocultural and linguistic anthropology, semiotics, global development policy and practice, labor, youth and education, mobility and migration, Indonesia/Southeast Asia

Research Areas: Tibetan Buddhist modernity, Buddhist ideals of renunciation, miracle narratives, and Buddhist biographies

Research Areas: Digital Media, Media Studies, Political Communication, Visual Communication, Asian American Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Critical Cultural Theory

Research Areas: Distance Teaching Techniques Applied to the Chinese Language, task-based language teaching (TBLT), digital learning, and technology enhanced language learning

Research Areas: Contemporary Japanese literature and culture, motherhood, horror

Research Areas: Chinese Literature, Aesthetics, Sensory Studies, Gastronomy

Director of the Humanities Center

Research Areas: East Asia, Intellectual History, Modern Chine, History of science, Global history

Research Areas: literature, film, and art from the perspectives of gender & sexuality, affect & trauma theories, and memory & history

Research Areas: Sociology of education, gender and inequality in labor market