Sixiang Wang
Sixiang Wang is a historian of Chosŏn Korea and early modern East Asia. He teaches courses in Korea’s premodern history as well as the history of cultural and intellectual interactions in early modern...
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Bio Oona Paredes is a Southeast Asianist specializing in the ethnographic and archival study of the southern Philippines, in particular its indigenous non-Muslim minorities known collectively as the...
View ArticleFaye Lu
Faye Qiyu Lu received her Ph.D. in Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA in 2024, specializing in comparative studies of modern Chinese and Sinophone cultures. Her dissertation, “Sinophone Cold War...
View ArticlePaula R. Curtis
Dr. Paula R. Curtis is a historian of medieval Japan based at UCLA. Her research focuses on metal caster organizations from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries and their socioeconomic relationships with...
View ArticleJordan Smith
Jordan A. Y. Smith (Ph.D., UCLA Comparative Literature) researches and teaches contemporary Japanese literature / culture and comparative literature. He has served as Associate Professor of...
View ArticleNadia Kanagawa
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View ArticleSarfaraz A. Farooque
Sarfaraz A Farooque is a Lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He teaches language courses at elementary and intermediate levels. The post Sarfaraz A. Farooque appeared...
View ArticleMichiko Kaneyasu
Michiko Kaneyasu is an associate professor of Japanese language and linguistics in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures. At UCLA, she teaches Asian language pedagogy and Japanese linguistics....
View ArticleJunko Yamazaki
Junko Yamazaki joined the department in the fall of 2017. In her research and teaching, she explores questions of film and media aesthetics as part of larger historical transformations of the...
View ArticleElizabeth Leicester
Elizabeth Leicester is the inaugural Associate Director of the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities. She brings over ten years of experience in managing the growth and expansion of...
View ArticleKenneth M. Shima
Kenneth M. Shima is an visiting adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He teaches classes in modern Japanese culture, film, literature, media studies,...
View ArticleMai Takeuchi
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View ArticleDiego Loukota
I specialize on the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road during the first millennium CE, in what spans cultural areas of South, Central, and East Asia. A philologist by training, I work with texts in...
View ArticleStephanie Balkwill
I am interested in the literary and public lives of Buddhist women who lived in what is now China between the 4th and 6th centuries. My research engages the question of whether or not Buddhist...
View ArticleNina Duthie
Nina Duthie received her Ph.D. in Chinese Literature and Cultural History from the East Asian Languages and Cultures department at Columbia University in spring 2015. She specializes in narrative...
View ArticleHuijun Mai
Huijun Mai is a scholar of pre-modern Chinese literature and culture. As a specialist in Chinese literature of the middle period (broadly 220–1300) with a training in material culture and intellectual...
View ArticleNina Duthie
Nina Duthie received her Ph.D. in Chinese Literature and Cultural History from the East Asian Languages and Cultures department at Columbia University in spring 2015. She specializes in narrative...
View ArticleSatoko Shimazaki
Satoko Shimazaki’s areas of research include early modern Japanese theater and popular literature; the modern history of kabuki; gender representation on the kabuki stage; sound and visual media; and...
View ArticleSixiang Wang
Sixiang Wang is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. He teaches courses in Korea’s premodern history as well as the history of cultural and intellectual...
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