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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
Qian Lin
Early Buddhism, Theravada and Sarvastivada Abhidharma systems, Buddhist Psychology.
Maria Alejandra Robinson
Urdu literature, Hindi/Urdu linguistics
Early South Asia historical literature and records of Buddhist expansion in the Bay of Bengal
History of early sectarian Buddhist schools; Sarvastivada literature and doctrines; the epistemological trajectory in the doctrinal development from sectarian Buddhism to early Yogacara Buddhism

Chinese

Chinese grammar (classical, historical, modern), Chinese dialectology (phonology, grammar), Chinese historical phonology, typology, general linguistics, Chinese pedagogy
Chinese literature, Chinese poetry
Classical Chinese, classical Chinese literature, early Chinese texts and poetry, Chinese pedagogy
Ian Fraser
Translation, philology, historical phonology
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
Qiang Li
Chinese linguistics, classical Chinese, Chinese dialects.
Chia-ying Shih
Modern Chinese Literature
Hsiang-Lin Shih
Early Chinese literature
Ancient Chinese literature and history
Tang poetry
Chinese historical phonology, Chinese dialects, early Chinese texts
Classical Chinese, textual criticism, early Chinese history

Japanese

Sarah Clayton
Japanese literature
Amy E. Elder
Premodern Japanese literature
Japanese literature with interdisciplinary approaches that integrate art, religion, and history
Yuka Inoue
Second language acquisition, bilingualism, Japanese language teaching, technology in language teaching
Christopher J. Lowy
Modern Japanese literature, Kambun aesthetics, Japanese writing system
Japanese theater nohgaku, Muromachi period, Edo period
Medieval Japanese literature from the perspectives of gender, class and Buddhism
Japanese and Korean Colonial Period literature, Literature of Koreans in Japan (Zainichi literature), Translation
Premodern Japanese Literature, Japanese Reception of Chinese Literature

 

 

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