Core Faculty
| Name | Title/Interest | |
|---|---|---|
Chungmoo Choi | Ph.D. Indiana University, Professor of Korean Culture Interests: Modern Korean culture and society, critical theory, gender, literature and film, religion, popular culture, post-colonial discourse Published Books | cchoi@uci.edu |
Martin Weizong Huang | Ph.D. Washington University, Professor of Chinese Interests: Traditional Chinese Narrative, Narrative Theory, Cultural History of Late Imperial China Published Books | mwhuang@uci.edu |
Kyung Hyun Kim | Ph.D. University of Southern California, Professor of Korean Culture; Asian American Studies; Film and Media Studies Interests: East Asian Cinema, Modern Korea, Critical Theory Published Books | kyunghk@uci.edu |
Susan B. Klein | Ph.D. Cornell University, Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture Interests: Pre-Modern and Modern Theater and Dance, Japanese Religions, Feminist Critical Theory Published Books | sbklein@uci.edu |
Margherita Long | Ph.D. Princeton University, Associate Professor of Japanese Interests: Japanese Literature and Film, Ecocriticism, Peace Activism, Feminist Theory, Eco-Documentary Published Books | margherita.long@uci.edu |
Jon Pitt | Ph.D. University of California Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Japanese Environmental Humanities Interests: Japanese Literature, Cinema, and Sound Media, Environmental Philosophy, Ecocriticism, Affect Theory, New Materialism, Speculative Realism/Object Oriented Ontology | jpitt@uci.edu |
Bert Scruggs | Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor of Chinese Interests: Twentieth Century Chinese and Taiwanese Fiction, Insular and Postcolonial Theory Published Books | bms@uci.edu |
Serk-Bae Suh | Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Associate Professor of Korean Interests: Modern Korean Literature Published Books | suhsb@uci.edu |
Elizabeth Tinsley | Ph.D. Otani University (Kyoto), Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies Interests: Buddhism in East Asia, Japanese Buddhism, East Asian Religions, Buddhist Visual and Textual Cultures, Visual Theory | etinsley@uci.edu |
Hu Ying | Ph.D. Princeton University, Department Chair and Professor of Chinese; Comparative Literature Interests: Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Translation Study, Feminist Theory Published Books | huying@uci.edu |