Faculty
The department is composed of eight core faculty in Chinese and Japanese language and literature, as well as affiliated faculty in other departments. Faculty are listed below with their affiliations and interests. Names link to individual faculty pages or sites.
The Asian Studies page in the college directory has a list of core faculty with photos and contact information. (The directory lists affiliated faculty under their home departments.)
Chinese Language and Literature
Cecilia Chang, Associate Professor of Chinese
- Second language acquisition,
- psycholinguistics/reading research,
- second/foreign language pedagogy,
- curriculum design and evaluation,
- multimedia instruction
Cornelius C. Kubler, Chair and Stanfield Professor of Asian Studies
- Chinese language pedagogy,
- Chinese linguistics,
- language contact
Christopher Nugent, Assistant Professor of Chinese
- Tang dynasty literary and manuscript culture,
- textual and oral circulation of poetry,
- second/foreign language pedagogy,
- memory and memorization
Li Yu, Assistant Professor of Chinese
- Chinese language pedagogy,
- history of reading in late Imperial China,
- multimedia learning material development
Chen Wang, Visiting Lecturer in Chinese
- Chinese language pedagogy
Japanese Language and Literature
Christopher Bolton, Assistant Professor of Japanese
- Modern and contemporary Japanese fiction,
- Japanese animation,
- literature and science,
- critical theory
Shinko Kagaya, Associate Professor of Japanese
- Japanese literature and performance,
- comparative performance studies,
- Japanese language pedagogy
Yuki Sakurai, Visiting Lecturer in Japanese
- Language pedagogy,
- sociolinguistics,
- conversation/discourse analysis,
- conversation strategies,
- reading in foreign language,
- individual differences,
- teacher training
Reiko Yamada, Professor of Japanese
- Japanese language pedagogy,
- sociolinguistics,
- intercultural communication
Kasumi Yamamoto, Associate Professor of Japanese
- Language pedagogy,
- Japanese linguistics,
- first and second language acquisition,
- lexical acquisition,
- cognitive development
Affiliated Faculty
George T. Crane, Professor of Political Science
- International political economy and the domestic politics of East Asia,
- economic nationalism in China and Taiwan
Georges B. Dreyfus, Professor of Religion
Ju-Yu Scarlett Jang, Professor of Art
- Chinese painting,
- print culture,
- theater culture in 16th- and 17th-century China
Jason Josephson, Assistant Professor of Religion
- Japanese religions,
- Edo- and Meiji-era (1600-1912) cultural, intellectual, and political history,
- East Asian folklore,
- East Asian Buddhism,
- Theories of religion
Peter Just, Professor of Anthropology
- Southeast Asia,
- especially Indonesia,
- law and dispute settlement,
- religion and magic,
- cross-cultural study of personality and emotions
Anne Reinhardt, Assistant Professor of History
- Western imperialism,
- technology,
- and social change in 19th- and 20th-century China
Eiko Maruko Siniawer, Assistant Professor of History
- Modern Japanese political and social history,
- history of organized crime and politics,
- modern history of political violence
W. Anthony Sheppard, Professor of Music
- Asian and Euro-American musical interactions and influence,
- Euro-American experimental vocal music and theater,
- opera and film music
Arafaat Valiani, Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Violence and militancy,
- historical sociology,
- history and politics of modern South Asia,
- space and place
K. Scott Wong, Professor of History
- Impact of WWII on Chinese Americans,
- the meaning of citizenship in immigration history,
- Asian American history on the east coast
Allied Staff
Jane Canova
- Administrative Director of the Center for Foreign Languages,
- Literatures and Cultures; Coordinator of the Critical Languages Program
Laura B. McKeon
- Associate Dean of the College and Coordinator of International Education Programs