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 |