Graduate Students
Meet the graduate students of the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Minnesota.
PhD Program
Salam Al Sayed
Specialties
Arab cultural studies; Global and digital media studies; Postcolonial theory; Trauma studies; Affect
Shaiq Ali
Specialties
South Asian Literature; Urdu Literature; Print and Periodicals; Postcolonial Studies
Mohimarnab Biswas
Specialties
Media labor; Media infrastructures; Media ecologies; Film production cultures; Film exhibition cultures; Political economy of media; Fan cultures
Nusaiba Imady
Specialties
Modern Arabic Literature; World Literature; Suicidology; Gender and Sexuality; Popular Romance Studies; Middle Eastern Culture and Literature
Dhrijyoti Kalita
Specialties
Environmental Humanities, Postcolonial Literature, South Asian Literature, Archipelagic Studies
Sarah Humiko Maple
Specialties
Nuclear humanities; Queer theory; Gender studies; Japanese studies
Kevin McKiernan
Specialties
Japanese Cinema; Brazilian Cinema; Japanese Animation; Manga; Documentary Film; Photography
Hunter McLeod
Specialties
Contemporary Japanese literature; Japanese film and media; Ecocriticism and environmental humanities; Archipelagic thinking and critical island studies; New materialisms and speculative realisms
Jiyoon Pyeon
Specialties
Korean cinema and media; Modern and contemporary Korean cultural studies (including K-Drama, K-Pop, and transnational fan culture); East Asian and transnational cinema; Genre studies; World cinema; Film style and aesthetics; Film and media industies
Tanner Rogers
Specialties
Modern Korean Literature; Cold War Literature; Production of space / Urbanization; Bildungsroman; Modern Korean History
Emily Sumner
Specialties
Modern Arabic Language and Literature; Yemeni Literature and Culture; Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language; Performance Theory
Mingyo Sung
Specialties
Modern and Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Daoist Philosophy; Death and Mourning
Master's Program
Yoko Tanaka
Specialties
Japanese language education; Japanese language and culture; Language pedagogy