Department Chair

Hisae Kobayashi, Associate Teaching Professor of Japanese, Chair of East Asian Languages & Cultures

Hisae Kobayashi

Associate Teaching Professor of Japanese, Chair of East Asian Languages & Cultures

Language pedagogy • Japanese language


Faculty

Amy Dooling, Professor of Chinese

Amy Dooling

Professor of Chinese

Modern and Contemporary Chinese fiction and drama • Chinese women's writing • History of the women's movement and feminism in China • Translation


Yibing Huang, Professor of Chinese, Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection

Yibing Huang

Professor of Chinese, Curator of the Chu-Griffis Asian Art Collection

Modern and contemporary Chinese literature, art, and culture • Modernism and postmodernism • Chinese American literature and art • Indigenous poetics and global modernity • Cultural translations between Chinese and American poetry


Tek-wah King, Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese

Tek-wah King

Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese

Syntax and morphology • Chinese writing system and dialects • Language pedagogy


Ayako Takamori, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Ayako  Takamori

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Japan • Asian America • Anthropology • Transnational Migration • Comparative Race and Ethnicity • Gender and Sexuality • Media and Visual Cultures



Staff

, Academic Department Assistant

Timmie Kydd

Academic Department Assistant


Associated Faculty

Di Luo, Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Di Luo

Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies

Chinese Art • Chinese Architecture • Architectural History • Architecture • Asian Art • World Art • Digital Humanities


Yong Jin Park, Associate Professor of Economics

Yong Jin Park

Associate Professor of Economics

Applied microeconomics and behavioral economics • Banking and comparative banking systems • Social inequality and labor supply


Sarah A. Queen, Professor of History, Global Capitalism Pathway Coordinator

Sarah A. Queen

Professor of History, Global Capitalism Pathway Coordinator

Early Chinese cultural history • The spiritual and philosophical dimensions of Confucianism and Daoism • Confucianism in East Asia Today (Confucianism and Human Rights; Confucianism and Democratization; and Confucianism and Ecology)


John Qunjian Tian, Professor of Government and International Relations

John Qunjian Tian

Professor of Government and International Relations

Chinese political economy • East Asian political economy • International political economy • Comparative political economy and politics


James Dale Wilson, Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department

James Dale Wilson

Professor of Music, Chair of the Music Department

Ethnomusicology • Jazz Composition • Guangdong ritual and ritual music • Southeast Chinese perspectives on migration and transnationalism


In Memoriam

Charles J. Chu

Professor Emeritus of Chinese

Professor Chu taught in the department from 1965-1984.

Henry T. K. Kuo

Professor Emeritus of Chinese

Professor Kuo taught in the department from 1970-1994.