Graduate Students
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 | Specialty |
|---|---|
| Nicolas Audet | Japanese intellectual history; video games theory |
| Chun Wai Fong | Japanese literature; Japanese history and Yōkai |
| 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 |
| Hui Liu | Chinese cinema, popular culture, and comedy; documentary ethics; international cinema |
| Chuanhui Meng | Modern and contemporary Chinese cinema, film and media theory (with focus on the intersection between genre theory and affect theory); transnational and international film history and media migrations; the global 1950s; socialist feminism and ethnicity studies |
| Kevin McKiernan | Japanese cinema and animation; new wave cinema; Brazilian cinema; modern Japanese art; the global 1960s |
| Mari Odoy | Modern Arabic literature; translation studies; gender and sexuality studies; post-colonial theory; modern Syrian literature |
| Jiyoon Pyeon | East Asian and Korean film, media, and pop culture |
| Sreyashi Ray | Postcolonial theory and criticism; critical animality studies; theories of race and indigeneity; South Asian literatures |
| Tanner Rogers | Modern Korean literature, Cold War literature, the Bildungsroman, and Aesthetics |
| 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 |
Master's Program
| Name | Specialty |
|---|---|
| Hussnain Ahmed | South Asian cinema; cinema as escapism; false reality in cinema |
| June Eldon | Japanese animation |
| Paul Hoanglong | Modern Korean literature of the 1930s; Korean modern writing |
| Ally Kann | Modern Arabic Literature; disability studies |
| Alexandria Kopicki | Japanese diaspora community, Zainichi Koreans |
| Hunter Mcleod | Japanese cinema; gender and sexuality studies; Japanese theaters |
| Callie Veiga | Japanese literature; postcolonial theory and imperialism; Japanese gender and sexuality studies; Japanese feminism and radicalism; construction of landscape and social consciousness; postwar memory and trauma |
| Nicholas Wahl | 19th century Ottoman-Arab relations, religious hierarchy and authority in the Ottoman-Arab world |