John William Chaffee
Distinguished Service Professor; Director, Institute for Asia and Asian Diaspora; Distinguished Service Professor; Director
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; History; Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas
Research Interests
- East Asia
- Chinese social history
Zu-Yan Chen
Director; SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor; Director, Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera
Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Pre-modern Chinese poetry and poetics
- Chinese culture
- Confucianism
- Language and culture pedagogy
John Cheng
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
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 for Center for Korean Studies; Associate Professor/Director, Center for Korean Studies
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; Professor/AAAS; Graduate Director
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Philosophy
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
Immanuel J. Kim
Research Interests
- North Korean Literature
- North Korean Comedy Films
- Korean Cinema
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
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Asian American literature and culture
- Asian diasporas
- cultural politics of food
Cynthia Marasigan
Assistant Professor
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
- and kinship
So-Jin Moon
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Teaching Korean/English as a Foreign Language
- Second language acquisition
- Korean/English language and grammar
- Language Pedagogy and Teaching Methodology
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)
Rumiko Sode
Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- General and Japanese linguistics - syntax and morphology
- Translation and translation education
- Multilingualism
Chenqing Song
Associate Professor; Director
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Chinese phonology
- Historical linguistics
- Tones in poetic prosody
- Chinese as a foreign language teaching
David C. Stahl
Professor, Japanese Literature & Cinema
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
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
Kayo Yoshida
Lecturer
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Japanese Pedagogy
- Accent Acquisition of Japanese
Lisa T. Yun
Associate Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; English, General Literature and Rhetoric
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
