Our department's graduate student offices are located at 428 Folwell Hall. For individual appointments, please reach out to the student by email.
PhD Program
| Name |
Contact |
Specialty |
|---|
| Nicolas Audet |
audet077@umn.edu |
Japanese intellectual history; Video Games Theory |
| Chun Wai Fong |
fongx097@umn.edu |
Japanese literature; Japanese history and Yōkai |
| Nusaiba Imady |
imady002@umn.edu |
Middle East & North Africa; Gender & sexuality studies; The novel; Modern Arabic Literature; Trauma Theory; Feminist Theory; Literature and philosophy |
| Dhrijyoti Kalita |
kalit008@umn.edu |
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 Lee |
leex7096@umn.edu |
Korean and Asian cinema, comedy and comic theory; East Asian comedy films |
| Hui Liu |
liux1841@umn.edu |
Chinese cinema, popular culture, and comedy; documentary ethics, international cinema |
| Chuanhui Meng |
meng0112@umn.edu |
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| Kevin McKiernan |
mckie030@umn.edu |
Japanese Cinema and Animation; New Wave Cinema; Brazilian Cinema; Modern Japanese Art; The Global 1960s |
| Mari Odoy |
odoy0001@umn.edu |
Modern Arabic literature; Translation studies; Gender & sexuality studies; Post-colonial theory; Modern Syrian literature |
| Jiyoon Pyeon |
pyeon002@umn.edu |
East Asian and Korean film/ media/ pop culture |
| Sreyashi Ray |
rayxx356@umn.edu |
Postcolonial Theory and Criticism; Critical Animality Studies; Theories of Race and Indigeneity; South Asian Literatures |
| Pawan Sharma |
sharm684@umn.edu |
South Asian Cinema, Popular Bollywood Films; Spatialit; Small-town spaces; Traditions of storytelling and narratives and film-making |
| Emily Sumner |
sumne036@umn.edu |
Yemeni prose and poetry; Modern Arabic literature; Performance theory; Teaching Arabic as a foreign language |
Master's Program
| Name |
Contact |
Specialty |
|---|
| Hussnain Ahmed |
ahmed804@umn.edu |
South Asian Cinema; Cinema as escapism; False reality in cinema |
| Dana Deutmeyer |
deutm002@umn.edu |
Social Systems in China; Policing systems unique to China; Community Policing; Community strength and its relation to safety |
| Matthew Eldon |
eldon001@umn.edu |
Japanese Animation |
| Paul Hoanglong |
hoang208@umn.edu |
Modern Korean literature of the 1930s; Korean modern wiritng |
| Alexandria Kopicki |
kopic003@umn.edu |
Japanese diaspora community, Zainichi Koreans |
| Trae Larson |
lars5558@umn.edu |
Japanese Cinema; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Japanese Theaters |
| Joshua Opatz |
opatz033@umn.edu |
Middle Eastern studies |
| Tanner Rogers |
roger833@umn.edu |
East Asian (mainly South Korean) Educational Systems and Their Social, Economic and Political Impacts |
