Dept. of Asian Studies
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Duanduan Li, Ed.D
Associate Professor
- Chinese linguistics
- applied linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- Chinese language and culture
- second language acquisition
- language socialization
- Chinese heritage language education
- bilingualism and multilingualism
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Christina Laffin
Associate Professor
- Women writers of Japan before the 19th century
- history of women in Japan before the 19th century
- Japanese diaries and memoirs
- Japanese poetry
- Japanese travel writing
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Prof. Hyung-Gu Lynn
AECL/KECPO Chair in Korean Research
- South Korea
- North Korea
- Japan
- politics
- popular culture
- society
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Adheesh Sathaye
Associate Professor of Sanskrit Literature and South Asian Folklore
- Sanskrit literature
- ancient India
- Asian folklore
- digital humanities
- manuscripts
- Hinduism
- caste
- Hindu mythology
- Sanskrit theater
- Sanskrit poetry
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Anne Murphy, PhD
Associate Professor
- Punjabi Studies
- Punjabi Canadian histories and cultural production
- South Asian studies
- South Asia
- Punjab
- Pakistan
- India
- Punjabi language
- Punjabi diaspora
- Sikh studies
- Sikh diaspora
- South Asian religions
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Dr. Dagmar Schwerk
Khyentse Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Tibetan Buddhist Studies
- Tibetan and Bhutanese Buddhism
- modernity and religion
- Himalayas
- Bhutan
- Buddhist ethics
- secularity
- religion and politics in Bhutan
- Tibet
- Buddhist philosophy
- nation-building
- identity building
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Fuyubi Nakamura, D.Phil.
Assistant Professor
- Anthropology of art
- museum studies
- material and visual cultures
- Japanese calligraphy
- contemporary art
- the Great East Japan Earthquake
- 3.11
- contemporary Japan
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Dr. Hessam Dehghani, PhD
Assistant Professor of Teaching Persian Language of Culture
- Teaching: Teaching Languages, Content-based, project-based teaching
- Research: Persian literature, Sufism and Islamic Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenology of Religious Experience
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Dr. Helena Wu, PhD
Assistant Professor of Hong Kong Studies
- Hong Kong
- Hong Kong culture, cinema, and literature
- identity
- popular culture
- media
- spectatorship
- community