John William Chaffee
Director; Distinguished Service Professor; Distinguished Service Professor; Director, Institute for Asia and Asian Diaspora; TRIP Courtesy Title
Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas; History; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- East Asia
- Chinese social history
Zu-Yan Chen
SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor; Director, Center for Theater Arts Collaboration; TRIP Courtesy Title
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Center for Theater Arts Collaboration; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Pre-modern Chinese poetry and poetics
- Chinese culture
- Confucianism
- Language and culture pedagogy
John Cheng
Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- comparative transnational and intersectional studies of race; gender; and nation
- popular culture; media; and technology
- the history of earth; life; and human sciences and of computing
- historiography and critical theory
Sungdai Cho
Director, Center for Korean Studies; Professor, Korean and Linguistics
Center for Korean Studies; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Syntax and Morphology
- Passive; Causative; Sluicing; Honorifics
- Language Pedagogy
- National Standards
- Assessment
Charles A. Goodman
Professor, Graduate Director of Philosophy; Professor
Philosophy; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Asian Philosophy
- Ethical Theory
- Applied Ethics
Mariko Hashimoto
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Japanese Pragmatics
- Japanese Culture and Second Language Acquisition
Nicholas A. Kaldis
Associate Professor; Director of Chinese Studies
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Aesthetic Cognition in the Fiction and Film of China & Taiwan
- Psychoanalytic Theory and Chinese Cultural Production
- Chinese-to-English Translation
- Lu Xun Studies
Shu-Min T. Kaldis
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Chinese Language Pedagogy
- Chinese Stamp Carving
- Bookmaking
- Chinese Woodcut; Silkscreen; Lithography and Intaglio Printmaking
- Watercolor Painting
- Chinese Culinary Arts
Sonja M. Kim
Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Korea and Comparative East Asia
- Medicine
- Health
- Gender
- Race and Class
- Education and Welfare
Kyung-Ah Kim
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Teaching Korean as a Second/Foreign Language
- Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
- Second Language Acquisition
- Korean Linguistics
Ji-Song (Robert) Ku
Associate Professor, Interim Chair
Sociology
Research Interests
- Asian American literature and culture
- Asian diasporas
- cultural politics of food
Tae Hee Lee
Adjunct Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Cynthia Marasigan
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- U.S. Empire and comparative race relations
- Afro-Asian histories
- Philippine and Filipino American history
Katherine Martineau
Assistant Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Contemporary India
- Colonial South Asia
- Semiotic Processes of Social Life (Language and Media Practice)
- Free Speech in Cultural and Historical Perspective
- The Global Circulation of Asian Religions
- Gender
- Sexuality
- Kinship
So-Jin Moon
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Language Pedagogy and Teaching Methodology
- Language teaching through pop culture media
- Korean linguistics
- KFL (Korean as a foreign language)
- SLA (Second language acquisition)
Michael J. Pettid
Professor of Korean Studies
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Premodern Korea (history; literature; culture; religions)
- Korean folklore and shamanism
- Korean Confucianism
- Daily life in premodern Korea (diet; housing; clothing; educational institutions; entertainment)
Junko Schwartzman
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Second Language Acquisition
- Sociolinguistics
Rumiko Sode
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- General and Japanese linguistics - syntax and morphology
- Translation and translation education
- Multilingualism
Chenqing Song
Director; Associate Professor
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Chinese phonology
- Historical linguistics
- Tones in poetic prosody
- Chinese as a foreign language teaching
David C. Stahl
Professor, Japanese Program Coordinator
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Modern Japanese literature and film
- Unresolved issues from the Asia Pacific War
- Examination of traumatic Japanese narratives in trauma/PTSD studies terms
- Japanese-English literary translation
Roberta Strippoli
Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Medieval Japanese literature and performing arts
- Medieval and early-modern manuscripts and illustrated scrolls
- Literary characters and cultural heritage
Ayae Uwabo
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Pedagogy
- Second Language Acquisition
- Japanese Linguistics
Lisa T. Yun
Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Freedom; Slavery; Human Rights
- Testimony and Testimonial
- Cross-racial Liberatory Movements
- Immigrant Narratives
Hong Zhang
Senior Instructor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Language and Music
- Language Pedagogy
- Vocal Pedagogy
- Chinese Music and Culture
