AAAS Faculty

Research Interests

• Race, racism, and mixed race studies
• Asian and African Diasporas in the Americas
• Latin American and Caribbean history
• South Asian diasporas
• Festivals, music, and performative culture
• Indigeneity

Research Interests

• East Asia
• Chinese social history

Research Interests

• • Pre-modern Chinese poetry and poetics
  • Confucianism
  • Translation of pre-modern Chinese literature
  • Language and culture pedagogy

Teaching Interests

• • History of Chinese Literature
  • Confucian Ethics
  • Translation of pre-modern Chinese literature
  • Chinese language and culture

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

Teaching Interests

• Asian American history
• race and popular culture
• comparative transnational racial formation
• historical methods and documentary history
• digital culture and literacy

Research Interests

• Syntax and Morphology
• Passive; Causative; Sluicing; Honorifics
• Language Pedagogy
• National Standards
• Assessment

Teaching Interests

• Structure of Korean
• Korean Language (All levels)
• East Asian Linguistics
• Morphology and Syntax
• Language, Culture and Society in Korea
• Pedagogy for East Asian Languages
• Advanced Korean Linguistics

Research Interests

• Asian Philosophy
• Ethical Theory
• Applied Ethics

Teaching Interests

• Asian Philosophy
• Ethical Theory
• Applied Ethics
• Metaphysics

Research Interests

• Japanese Pragmatics
• Japanese Culture and Second Language Acquisition

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

Teaching Interests

• 20th Century Chinese Literature
• Fiction and Film in Post-colonial Taiwan
• Sinophone Cinemas
• Intersections of Western Theory and Chinese Culture
• Chinese-to-English Translation
• Writing and Composition
• Chinese Language

Research Interests

• Chinese Language Pedagogy
• Chinese Stamp Carving
• Bookmaking
• Chinese Woodcut; Silkscreen; Lithography and Intaglio Printmaking
• Watercolor Painting
• Chinese Culinary Arts

Research Interests

• Korea and Comparative East Asia
• Medicine
• Health
• Gender
• Race and Class
• Education and Welfare

Teaching Interests

• Korean and East Asian History
• Gender; Migration; Race; Nation and Empire
• History of Medicine; Science and Technology

Research Interests

• Teaching Korean as a Second/Foreign Language
• Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
• Second Language Acquisition
• Korean Linguistics

Teaching Interests

• Korean as a Second/Foreign Language
• Korean through pop music, dramas, and variety shows
• Korean Pop Culture
• Korean Linguistics

Research Interests

• Asian American literature and culture
• Asian diasporas
• cultural politics of food

Research Interests

• U.S. Empire and comparative race relations
• Afro-Asian histories
• Philippine and Filipino American history

Teaching Interests

• Asian American history
• Race; War; and Citizenship
• Afro-Asian Intersections
• U.S. Empire in the Philippines and Pacific

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

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)

Research Interests

• Second Language Acquisition
• Sociolinguistics

Research Interests

• General and Japanese linguistics - syntax and morphology
• Translation and translation education
• Multilingualism

Teaching Interests

• General and Japanese linguistics
• Syntax and morphology
• Translation
• Multilingualism

Research Interests

• Chinese phonology
• Historical linguistics
• Tones in poetic prosody
• Chinese as a foreign language teaching

Teaching Interests

• Chinese language teaching
• Chinese linguistics and culture

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

Teaching Interests

• Survey courses on modern Japanese literature and Japanese Cinema
• Artistic representation of Japanese Asia Pacific War experience
• Unresolved issues from modern Wars in Asia
• Social trauma
• dissociation and recovery

Research Interests

• Pedagogy
• Second Language Acquisition
• Japanese Linguistics

Teaching Interests

• Japanese language courses

Research Interests

• Immigration and Migration
• Humanities for Justice
• Digital Storytelling
• Digital Pathways to Community
• Community Engagement
• Afro Asian Connections
• Asian American Literature and Culture
• Asians of the Americas

Research Interests

• Language and Music
• Language Pedagogy
• Vocal Pedagogy
• Chinese Music and Culture

Teaching Interests

• Cultural Chinese
• Business Chinese
• Compositional Chinese
• Chinese through Song
• Li Bai & Du Fu
• Confucius' Analects