Current Graduate Students

Students in the Ph.D. program in the field of Asian Literature, Religion & Culture

	Vincent Burgess discourses of abnegation and the cultural/counter-cultural articulations of asceticism and renunciation in North Indian religious movements, specifically regarding the utilization/abnegation of intoxicants and dietary restrictions e-mail: [email protected]
	Patrick Cummins Sanskrit; poetics, grammar, hermeneutics, and logic e-mail: [email protected]
	Kevin Dong modern Chinese poetry, ghosts, and critical theory e-mail: [email protected]
	Yunfei Du contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese labor culture & migrant worker poetry, subaltern studies, Marxism e-mail: [email protected]
	Yuanyuan Duan writing and reading practices of Buddhist multilingual texts found in Southwest China (11-16th century) e-mail: [email protected]
	Yuanxue Jing Japanese electronic literature, video games, and digital media e-mail: [email protected]
	Joshua Chun Wah Kam culinary connections to the Middle East in classical Malay and Javanese Sufism e-mail: [email protected]
	Anna Koshcheeva imagining of Laos at the crossroads of the Cold War e-mail: [email protected]
	Yanting-Leah Li deep ecology and solidarity with the nonhuman through affective mediation of soundscapes, atmospheric poetics, contemporary Chinese poetry e-mail: [email protected]
	Chengxiang Lin modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture; Chinese poetry and poetics; media history and theory; the relations between literature and technology e-mail: [email protected]
	Mary Kate (MK) Long women and gender in Buddhism; Buddhist institutions in Burma/Myanmar and Southeast Asia; religious diversity; friendship e-mail: [email protected]
	Xiaoyue Luo late imperial Chinese literature and print culture e-mail: [email protected]
	Andrea Mariucci Japanese studies, digital media, and popular culture e-mail: [email protected]
	Su-Yeon Seo literary, intellectual, and cultural history of premodern Sinitic dictionaries and encyclopedias; history of linguistic thoughts, organization of knowledge and information e-mail: [email protected]
	Saumya Sethia e-mail: [email protected]
	Bruno Shirley Buddhist kingship; the Pāli Cosmopolis (particularly Sri Lanka); textual and material records e-mail: [email protected]
	Sirithorn (Ing) Siriwan rice rituals and performances in Northern Thailand e-mail: [email protected]
	Casey Stevens medieval Chinese poetry, specifically that of the Tang; cultural history, literary reception, and ontological frameworks created through poetry e-mail: [email protected]
	Amy An Wei contemporary Japanese literature; post-disaster fiction; queer studies; disability studies e-mail: [email protected]
	Tsuguta Yamashita Japanese post-imperial impact on Indonesia e-mail: [email protected]
	Yumeng Zhang Chinese literature in Tang China e-mail: [email protected]

Students in the M.A. program in the field of Asian Studies

	Ian Bellows development of multivalent identities within mono-ethnic Sherpa communities in Nepal's Solukhumbu region e-mail: [email protected]
	Hairuo Cao Asian family dynamics; feminism, gender, and sexuality; translation studies e-mail: [email protected]
	Yujia Chen popular Japanese culture e-mail: [email protected]
	Narumol Choochan Thai judicial procedure; Thai human rights activism e-mail: [email protected]
	Lingyu Dong rural society in China, cultural anthropology, development study e-mail: [email protected]
	Xiao Hong modern Chinese literature and culture e-mail: [email protected]
	Anna Naiyapatana politics of gender in Thai education, student activism, and youth culture; Thai American identity e-mail: [email protected]
	Sarita Pariyar caste, gender, and sexuality in Nepal e-mail: [email protected]
	Nikita Sukmono themes of democratization, ethnic identity/identity politics, and comparative analysis in Southeast Asia e-mail: [email protected]
	Katherine Tran media studies, gender and sexuality, and contemporary society in relation to East Asia e-mail: [email protected]