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, VP for Strategic Initiatives and Special Advisor to the President, Professor of Chinese

Amy Dooling

VP for Strategic Initiatives and Special Advisor to the President, 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.