Zachary Adamz
PhD Candidate, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: B.S. Geography, Brigham Young University; M.A. Geography, University of Kansas
Interests: Diaspora and homeland theory, geographies of nationalism and transnationalism, processes and consequences of territorialization, tourism, ethnicity and belonging, Central Eurasian, Soviet, and East Asian (particularly Korean) history, culture, and society
Katheryn Bolton
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: M.A. in Sociology, Ewha Womans University
Interests: Korean diaspora, return migration, hierarchical nationhood, expatriate communities
Cicely Bonnin
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: 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
daniel dillon
PhD Candidate, South Asian Cultures & Languages
ddillon154@utexas.edu |
RLP 4.502
Education: BA Anthropology, Asian Religions and Cultures; MA Religious Studies, Western Kentucky University
Interests: Mobilities, Gender & Sexuality (especially Masculinity), Queer Theory, Asian American Studies and the Tamil Ethnoscape, Religious & Ethnic Violence, Visual & Literary Ethnography, Contemporary Sri Lanka
Erick Dodge
Master's student, Asian Studies
Education: B.A., Classics and Anthropology, University of Houston
Interests: Indo-European Studies, Religious Studies, and Prehistory (Archaeology, Genetics)
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.
Xuefeng Feng
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Socialist aesthetics and its practices, literary theories in 20th century China, Chinese Marxism and its culture policies.
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
Andrea Gutierrez
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Sanskrit, Prakrits, Tamil, foodways, dietary manuals, and food prescriptions of South Asia, animal studies and animal speech, Hindu traditions, Buddhist traditions, yogic traditions
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
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
Master's student, Asian Studies
Education: B.A., International Studies and Asian Studies, The City College of New York
Interests: Korean Language; Suicide in South Korea: the causes, the population it affects, resolution; gender issues in South Korean Media
Katie Lazarowicz
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Indian Folk art (Madhubani Painting, Mithila Art), Material Culture & Visual Studies, Development & Labor, Bihar, Hindi, Economics & Economic History 19th Century - present, Contemporary Indian Art, Religious and Spiritual Traditions of India, Jesuits in India.
Jia "Juliana" Liu
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
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.
Jenny Myung
Master's student, Asian Studies
Education: B.A., International Relations and Global Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Zeltzyn Rubi Sanchez Lozoya
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Indian cinemas and film cultures, world cinema, women cinema, transnational and third world feminisms, cultural studies of South Asia, and film digital distribution
Yunfei Shang
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: East Asia film history, archives and industry, film production under authoritarian states, Hollywood's dissemination in East Asian and its aftermath.
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
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
David St. John
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: MA in Religious Studies, Florida International University
Interests: South Asian Religions: Primarily in Jainism, Secondarily in Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism. American Religions: Primarily Quakerism. Within these traditions I focus on the history of the formation of ethics, lay ethics, mendicant-lay interactions, lived experience of the laity in ascetic based traditions.
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.
Caleb Williams
Master's student, Asian Studies
Education: B.A., Chinese Language and Literature, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Chinese Folklore Studies
