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South Asian and Buddhist Studies

Genoveva Castro-Meagher
South Asian literature, epic literature, Indian cinema and performing arts
Amruta Chandekar
South Asian linguistics, syntax, semantics, and sanskrit grammar

South Asian religious texts and print history, asceticism and power, hagiography. 

Qian Lin
Early Buddhist literature and history, Theravāda and Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma literature and philosophy systems, Buddhist philosophy of mind
Early South Asia historical literature and records of Buddhist expansion in the Bay of Bengal

Chinese

Renee M. Balog
Modern Chinese literature, gender studies in Chinese fiction, foreign language teaching/acquisition
Marco Caboara
Chinese linguistics, classical Chinese grammar, Chinese dialects
Medieval Chinese poetry

Chinese grammar, Chinese dialectology, Chinese historical  phonology, typology, general linguistics, Chinese pedagogy

Chinese linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Dialectology, and excavated texts.
Namwoon Kim
Sino-Tibetan languages, Chinese historical linguistics(Proto-Old Chinese), Buddhist philology, and Dunhuang study.
Sino-Korean historical phonology, Chinese dialects, Early Chinese texts, Second language acquisition
Tang Prose and Literary Criticism, Wen Xuan, intellectual, literary, and cultural history of Tang China.
Qiang Li
Chinese linguistics, classical Chinese, Chinese dialects.
J. Edmund Lien
Eastern Han intellects, literature and science
David Lippmann
Eastern Han intellects, literature and science
Seaver Milnor (on leave)
Chinese and Sino-Korean historical phonology; martial arts literature
Chinese literature
Rebecca Peer (on leave)
Modern Chinese literature and gender studies in Chinese fiction
Mark Pitner
Early Chinese intellectual history, literature, geography, and material culture
Northeastern Chinese dialects, language contact with Yanbian Korean minority in NE China
Chia-ying Shih
Modern Chinese Literature
Hsiang-Lin Shih
Early Chinese literature
Jeongsoo Shin
Landscape Aesthetics in Early Medieval China.
Chinese literature
Ancient Chinese literature and history
Sterling Swallow
Late Qing, early Republican genre novels Chinese science fiction Chinese pedagogy
Ying Tang
Chinese Martial Arts literature
Nicholas Williams
Six Dynasties imitation poetry, medieval Chinese and Japanese poetry, and comparative literature.
Classical Chinese, textual criticism, early Chinese history

Japanese

Sarah Clayton
Japanese literature
Amy E. Elder
Premodern Japanese literature
Jon Holt
Early twentieth-century Japanese literature, poetry and children's stories; poet Miyazawa Kenji
Japanese literature with interdisciplinary approaches that integrate art, religion, and history
Christopher J. Lowy
Modern Japanese literature, Kambun aesthetics, Japanese writing system
Medieval Japanese literature from the perspectives of gender, class and Buddhism
Koji Tanno
Second language acquisition, Pragmatics, Bilingualism

 

 

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