Director of the Graduate Program: Wendy Swartz, 43 College Avenue, College Avenue Campus (848-932-7605)

Members of the Graduate Faculty:

Young-mee Yu Cho, Associate Professor of Korean Language and Culture, SAS; Ph.D., Stanford
Phonology; morphology; Korean and Japanese linguistics; language acquisition; language pedagogy

Jessey Choo, Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Religion, SAS; Ph.D., Princeton
Medieval Chinese history and religion; ritual theory and practice; women and gender; history of medicine and body

Suzy Kim, Assistant Professor of Korean History, SAS; Ph.D., Chicago
Modern Korean history; North Korean social history; social theory; women and gender; oral history

Satoru Saito, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Modern and contemporary Japanese literature; Japanese film; Japanese popular culture

Paul Schalow, Professor of Japanese Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Harvard
Classical and early-modern Japanese literature; Japanese women's writing; Japanese literature and the atomic bomb; samurai cinema and the ethics of violence

Richard VanNess Simmons, Professor of Chinese, SAS; Ph.D., Washington
Chinese dialectology; dialect geography; Chinese historical linguistics; history of Chinese

Weijie Song, Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Modern Chinese literature and film; urban culture; comparative literature; Chinese popular culture; sinophone and diaspora studies

Wendy Swartz, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, SAS; Ph.D., California (Los Angeles)
Medieval Chinese poetry; literary theory and criticism; literary history; comparative poetics

Ching-I Tu, Professor of Chinese and East Asian Studies, SAS; Ph.D., Washington
Chinese literary criticism; Chinese thought; Chinese hermeneutics; Chinese culture; East Asia