Program Offered:
Master of Arts
Director of the Graduate Program: Associate Professor Wendy Swartz, 43 College
Avenue, College Avenue Campus (848-932-7605)
Website: http://asianlanguages.rutgers.edu/graduate
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; women and gender; memory studies; rituals
theory; epigraphy
Suzy Kim, Associate 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, Associate 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
Xiaojue Wang, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, SAS; Ph.D., Columbia
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature; the cultural Cold War; Late Qing fiction; film and visual studies; comparative literature
Associate Members of the Graduate Faculty
Tao Jiang, Associate Professor of Chinese and Buddhist
Philosophy, SAS; Ph.D., Temple
Buddhism; Chinese religious and philosophical traditions
Sukhee Lee, Assistant Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D.,
Harvard
Social and intellectual history of middle period China
Xun Liu, Associate Professor of History, SAS; Ph.D.,
Southern California
Modern Chinese history; history of Chinese medicine
John D. Phan, Assistant Teaching Professor in Asian Languages and Cultures, SAS; Ph.D., Cornell
Chinese and Vietnamese literature; historical linguistics; culture; society
Louisa Schein, Associate Professor of Anthropology and
Women's and Gender Studies, SAS; Ph.D., California (Berkeley)
Chinese anthropology, diaspora, and gender studies
Yuan-Chen Jenny Yang, Lecturer in Asian Languages and Cultures, SAS; Ph.D., Yale
Chinese linguistics; Chinese pedagogy; language and society