Graduate Students

Our department's graduate student offices are located at 425 Folwell Hall. For individual appointments, please reach out to the student by email.

PhD Program

Name Specialty
Salam Al Sayed Arab cultural studies; Global media studies; Postcolonial theory; Islamophobia studies; Trauma and memory studies
Shaiq Ali South Asian Literature; Urdu Literature; Print and Periodicals; Postcolonial Studies
Nicolas Audet Japanese intellectual history; empire and race
Mohimarnab Biswas Media labor; media infrastructures; media ecologies; film production and exhibition cultures; political economy of media; fan cultures
Nusaiba Imady Middle East & North Africa; gender and sexuality studies; the novel; modern Arabic literature; trauma theory; feminist theory; literature and philosophy
Dhrijyoti Kalita Postcolonial ecocriticism and zoocriticism; anthropocene studies; political ecologies; empire studies; post-development in South Asia; governance systems in the modern world; South Asian literatures; Northeast Indian literature and history
Soo Hyun Jackelen Korean and Asian cinema, comedy, and comic theory; East Asian comedy films
Annabella Jankowski Japanese Literature; Japanese Popular Culture; Media and Fandom Studies; Comic Studies.
Sarah Lam Nuclear humanities; Queer theory; Gender studies; Japanese studies
Hui Liu Chinese cinema, popular culture, and comedy; documentary ethics; international cinema
Kuan Liu  
Kevin McKiernan Japanese cinema and animation; new wave cinema; Brazilian cinema; modern Japanese art; the global 1960s
Hunter Mcleod Japanese cinema; gender and sexuality studies; Japanese theaters
Jiyoon Pyeon East Asian and Korean film, media, and pop culture
Tanner Rogers Modern Korean literature, Cold War literature, space and spatial production, the Bildungsroman
Pawan Sharma South Asian cinema, popular Bollywood films; spatiality; small-town spaces; traditions of storytelling, narratives, and film-making
Emily Sumner Yemeni prose and poetry; modern Arabic literature; performance theory; teaching Arabic as a foreign language 
Kaixuan Yao Chinese Cinema; Theater and New Media; Dance Films; Affect Theory; Body Theory
   

Master's Program

Name Specialty
Eva Heinen  
Nour Eldin Hussein  
Ally Kann Modern Arabic Literature; disability studies
Noah Larson  
Samuel Maret  
Jena Mehl  
Sasinindu Patabendige  
Nicholas Wahl 19th century Ottoman-Arab relations, religious hierarchy and authority in the Ottoman-Arab world
Yulong Yang