The Department of Asian Studies serves as the institutional center of Cornell's diverse research and teaching interests, strengths and potentials in Asia. It is the home for instruction in the languages, literatures, religions, cultures, and intellectual histories of Asian societies and is one of the few departments in America that offers instruction in social sciences, the humanities and languages across all three regions of Asia: East Asia (China, Japan and Korea), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore), and South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). The professorial faculty members are a multi-disciplinary group in the humanities who conduct research and teach on topics arranged under our rubrics of "Literature & Linguistics," "Religion," and "Society & Culture," as well as offering more broad courses under the "General Education" heading and more specialized courses such as honors or graduate seminars. Associated faculty throughout the university teach courses about the politics, economics, history, culture and contemporary development of Asian regions. Faculty members at the rank of senior lecturer, lecturer and teaching associate offer instruction in 14 modern Asian languages, and the department also offers instruction in five classical Asian languages (Sanskrit, Pali, Literary Chinese, Literary Japanese and Literary Vietnamese).
The department works with Asian specialists of all disciplines across campus, who collectively comprise the East, South and Southeast Asia area studies programs. Undergraduate students can major in Asian studies or minor in East Asian studies, South Asian studies or Southeast Asian studies. The department is home to two graduate programs: Asian Studies (MA) and Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture (MA/PhD).
Department websiteDrisana Misra
Provost New Faculty Fellow
Education
- Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University, 2023
- B.A. in Comparative Literature, Yale University, 2013
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Shiqi Lin
Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow
Education
- Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a Critical Theory Emphasis, University of California, Irvine, 2023
- M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, 2019
- B.A. in Political Science and French & Francophone Studies, Vassar College, 2017
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Shaoling Ma
Associate Professor
Publications
Monograph
The Stone and the Wireless: Mediating China, 1861-1906. June 2021, Duke University Press, part of the “Sign, Storage and Transmission” series
Articles
“The Farmer, the Influencer, and the Labors of Rural Self-Media," Comparative Literature Studies, Special Issue on “Redesigning Modernities,” 2023. Forthcoming July/August 2023.
“Big Earths of China: Remotely Sensing Xinjiang Along the Belt and Road.” Critical Inquiry, 49.1 (Autumn 2022): 77-101. Print and Online. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721173
“Pauses, Cuts, and Static Interference: The Media Forms of Merger and Separation in Malaysia and Singapore.” positions: asia critique, 28.4 (Nov 2020): 841-868. Print.
“Stone, Jade, Medium: A Neocybernetics New Story of the Stone (1905-1906).” Configurations: A Journal of Science, Literature, and Technology, 26.1 (Winter 2018): 1-26. Print.
“To Compare Otherwise: Dialectics and The Work of Comparison in Structural Totality.” Mediations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group, 31. 1 (Fall 2017). Online. http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/compare-otherwise
Education
- Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 2012
- M.A. in Comparative Literature, University of Southern California, 2008
- M.A. in English (Literary Studies), National University of Singapore, 2006
- B.A. with Honors in European Studies and Political Science, National University of Singapore, 2004
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K.T. Wong
Post-Doctoral Associate
Mayu Okawara Muller
Visiting Lecturer
Education
- M.A. in Education, Curriculum, and Instruction from Otterbein University in 2021
- B.A. in Global Studies in English from Hiroshima Jogakuin University in 2016
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Joy Kwon
Teaching Associate
Education
- Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2021
- M.A. in English Language and Linguistics, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea, 2014
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Waleska Solorzano
Graduate Student
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Meena Haribal
Teaching Associate
Education
Ph.D., Chemistry, IIT, Bombay India
M.Sc., Organic Chemistry, Bombay University, India
B.Sc., Organic Chemistry, Bombay University, IndiaS
S. S. C., NKES School, Wadala Mumbai India
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Cheran Rudhramoorthy
Visiting Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D., Sociology, York University, 2001
M.A. with Distinction, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, 1989