Chair
- Leo Ching
- Associate Professor and Chair
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His research interests include colonial discourse studies, postcolonial theory, Japanese mass culture, and theories of globalization and regionalism. He has published in boundary 2, positions and Public Culture.
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Director of Undergraduate Studies
- Carlos Rojas
- Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image and DUS
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Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image, and his research focuses on issues of gender and visuality, corporeality and infection, and nationalism and diaspora studies.
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Faculty
Tenure, Regular Rank Faculty
- Leo Ching
- Associate Professor and Chair
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His research interests include colonial discourse studies, postcolonial theory, Japanese mass culture, and theories of globalization and regionalism. He has published in boundary 2, positions and Public Culture.
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- Guo-Juin Hong
- Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture
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Film historiography, film theory, postcolonial theory and theories of culture and globalization; film and other media of Taiwan, Hong Kong and China
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- Hwansoo I. Kim
- Assistant Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and Religion
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- Nayoung Aimee Kwon
- Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor
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Nayoung Aimee Kwon is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Korean and Japanese Cultural Studies in the Department of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Women's Studies and the Program in the Art of the Moving Image. She is currently working on her book manuscript Translating Empire: the Conundrum of Modernity and Collaboration in Korea and Japan which examines the broader problem of ...
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- Kang Liu
- Professor
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My research interests: Marxism and aesthetics, globalization, ideologies,
cultural politics and media in China
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- Ellen A. McLarney
- Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture
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- Carlos Rojas
- Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women's Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image and DUS
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Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image, and his research focuses on issues of gender and visuality, corporeality and infection, and nationalism and diaspora studies.
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Non-Tenure, Regular Rank Faculty
- Jie Cai
- Lecturer
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His research interests include Chinese language word order, second language acquisition, teaching of written style Chinese (shumianyu), computer-assisted learning and Chinese pedagogy
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- Hitomi Endo
- Associate Professor of the Practice
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Her academic interests are in language pedagogy, second language acquisition, Japanese linguistics and oral proficiency testing.
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- Tianshu He
- Lecturer and Coordinator for First Year Chinese
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Second language acquisition theories and methodologies, teaching with mulimedia
technology, Chinese classical language and literature, heritage language learning
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- Hae-Young Kim
- Professor of the Practice
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Her research and teaching interests include L2 Korean morpho-syntactic development, bilingualism, heritage language development and maintenance, and content-based instruction of language with focus on history, literature and cultural studies. She has published on tense/aspect morphology and relative clause construction in L2 Korean, Korean heritage language students in the U.S. and ...
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- Naoko Kurokawa
- Lecturer
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Development of foreign language curriculum, computer-assisted learning, Japanese linguistics and pragmatics in second language classroom.
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- Kun Shan (Carolyn) Lee
- Associate Professor of the Practice & Director of Chinese Language Program,
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Her research interests are development of foreign language curriculum (including study abroad program), second language acquisition, Sociocultural theory, and computer assisted learning.
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- Mbaye B. Lo
- Assistant Professor of the Practice and 2008-2009 Recipient of the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award
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Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), oral proficiency-based language teaching and testing.
http://www.youtube.com/user/DukeAMES.
His areas of research include the sociology of Islam & theories of civil society. He also has a strong interest in the development of Arabic language and literature in Africa.
Associate Editor of Dirasaat Ifrikiyyah Journal. ...
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- Shelli Plesser
- Lecturer
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Her interests are focused primarily on the
communicative performance of languages with a strong
adherence to the Chomskian-generative view of
language, language development, and language
acquisiton. She also is a strong supporter of the incorporation of cultural content in class linguistic as well as non-linguistic (music, movies, commercials etc).
Shelli is a native Hebrew speaker (she was
born and raised in Israel) ...
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- Premlata Vaishnava
- Lecturer
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Dr. Vaishnava’s interests include developing teaching materials for South Asian languages (such as Hindi), incorporating new technology and innovative ideas in classroom, publishing her own poetry, stories and journal articles on diaspora and gender among South Asian women immigrants. Dr. Vaishnava is actively involved with other South Asian language ...
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- Yuan Yao
- Lecturer
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Yuan Yao received her M.A. from Xian Foreign Language Institute in China.
Her interests include second language acquisition and language teaching methodology.
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Secondary Appointments
- Claire Conceison
- Professor of Theater Studies and Professor of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
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- Shalom L. Goldman
- Professor of Religion and Middle Eastern Studies and Professor in the Department of Religion
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- Erdağ Göknar
- Assistant Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies and Turkish Studies/DISC
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Instructors
- Azusa Saito
- Japanese Instructor
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Language Pedagogy, curriculum development
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Visiting Professor
- Abdul Sattar J Al Mamouri
- Professor of Comparative Literature and Middle East Studies and English
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- Jonathan Kramer
- Visiting Professor of Music (ethnomusicology) and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
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Staff
