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 |
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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 |
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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 |