Research Activities
Our faculty members are committed to the study of language and cultural phenomena of East, South, and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Our faculty's research encourages breadth of perspective and rigorous engagement with specific materials. General theoretical issues inform all areas and topics researched or taught in the department.
Current Faculty Research Topics
Research related to the Chinese middle school textbook and the formation of the modern nation state in China.
Research project for next book on the spatial and temporal facets of Palestinian literary and cinematic production.
Manuscript: “A Muted Feminine Voice: Women’s Gidayû-Music and Fandom in Modern Japan.”
Book manuscript: Biotropes: Ecology Without Culture
Book manuscript: Inscribing the Real: Realism and Convention in Chinese Cinema from the Silent Era to the Digital Age
Research on the relation of Buddhist belief to the formation of East Asian aesthetics in the realm of poetry, fiction, film, and other genres.
Book manuscript on inanimate things and other nonhuman figures in Indian cinema.
Book manuscript: Melodrama and the Cold War: Ideas and Emotion in Korean Cinemas