Zachary Adamz
PhD Candidate, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: B.S. Geography, Brigham Young University; M.A. Geography, University of Kansas
Interests: Korean Studies; Migration and Diaspora Studies; Geographies of Territorialization and Nationalism; Tourism and Museology
Katheryn Bolton
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: MA in Sociology, Ewha Womans University
Interests: Korean diaspora, return migration, hierarchical nationhood, ethnic enclaves, expatriate communities, identity formation, Hallyu and cultural globalization
Cicely Bonnin
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: BSc, BEd, MA (Linguistics), The University of Queensland
Katharine Chandler
Graduate student
Education: BA in Philosophy, Religious Studies, History, and Great Books, East Carolina University
Michelle Chen
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Modern Chinese literature, film and culture; Sinophone studies
Isaac Dwyer
MA Student in Contemporary South Asia
Education: BA, Literature & Spanish, Bennington College
Interests: Hindi-Urdu language and literature, Islam in South Asia, Shi'ism, transgender studies, critical caste studies, disability studies, labor and migration.
Ssu-Chieh Fan
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: M.A. in Translation and Interpretation, National Taiwan University
Interests: Cultural production in contemporary East Asia, with an emphasis on the intersections between Sinophone literature, film, and globalization.
Michael Fiden
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: MA in Religious Studies, University of South Florida.
Nina Gat
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Literatures of India; Beginnings of modern Hindi literature; Classical Indian aesthetics; & Indian modernity
Charlotte Giles
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Indo-Islamic culture and history, Urdu literature, labor, home-based production and the textile industry
Namrata Kanchan
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Premodern Deccan literary cultures; translation culture, Indo-Persian literary culture.
Jean Young Kim
PhD Candidate, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: M.A. in Geography Education, Seoul National University
Interests: infertility/subfertility, hope, neoliberal governmentality, biopolitics, Assisted Reproductive Technologies(ARTs), politics of reproduction, (ultra) low fertility in East Asia, everyday geographies
Michael Kuehl
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Contemporary Japanese literature, Russian literature, Translation, Literary analysis, Trauma studies, Psychoanalytic theory, Gender studies.
Catherine Lajara
M.A.,Asian Studies- Korean
Education: M.A.,Asian Studies- Korean, The University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Korean Language; Suicide in South Korea: the causes, the population it affects, resolution; gender issues in South Korean Media
Kevin Lentz
Graduate student
Education: Master of Global Policy Studies and Master of Asian Studies, The LBJ School of Public Affairs
Jia Liu
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: PhD, Asian Studies
Interests: Modern Chinese literature, mass media and cultural institution.
Jeffery McElroy
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Literary and cultural studies, with an emphasis on modern Chinese cinema, globalization, and post-colonial studies.
Yunfei Shang
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Japanese cinema, Chinese language cinemas, East Asia film and media industry, visual culture studies
Benjamin Simington
Master's student, Asian Studies
Education: B.A., History, Carthage College
Interests: Islam in South Asia, Sufi texts, Urdu, Anti-colonialism, Religious conversion, Critical Whiteness Studies
Lauren Slusher (she/her/hers)
Master's student, Asian Studies and Global Policy Studies
Education: BBA in Business Honors and Management pre-law, Texas A&M University
Interests: I’m interested in working for the United States Foreign Commercial Service to promote trade between the United States and Asia, with an emphasis on trade promotion with the People’s Republic of China
Shu-Wen Tang
PhD candidate, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: B.A. in Political Science, National Taiwan University, M.A. in Taiwanese Literature, National Chengchi University
Interests: Literary and cultural studies, with an emphasis on Taiwan and Post-Socialist China
John Taylor
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Classical Sanskrit literature, esp. the Mahabharata, ritual theory, gender & body theory, Indo-European linguistics.
Ting-Chun Wang
Graduate student
Education: M.A., Comparative Literature, Peking University
Interests: Chinese and Taiwanese Literature in the 20th century, Maoism in China, Cultural Revolution, literary and cultural production in socialist and post-socialist China
Caleb Williams
Master's student, Asian Studies
Education: B.A., Chinese Language and Literature, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Chinese Folklore Studies
