Kyaw Yin Hlaing
Visiting Lecturer
Education
Ph.D., Government, Cornell University, 2001
M.A. , Government, Cornell University, 1997
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).
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Nielson Hul
Visiting Lecturer
Kaori Nishikino
Visiting Lecturer
Jyun-hong Lu
Lecturer
Departments and programs
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Andrew Harding
Visiting Lecturer
Education
Ph.D, Cornell University, Modern Japanese Literature, 2021
M.A., School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, 2011
B.A., School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, 2007
Departments and programs
Jahyon Park
Visiting Lecturer
Publications
“Crying Men Watching Webtoons: Misaeng and Korean Male Audiences,” in Here Comes the Flood: Perspectives of Gender, Sexuality, and Stereotype in the Korean Wave, edited by Marcy Tanter and Moisés Park, Lexington Books (forthcoming, 2022)
“Webtoon and Intimacy: Reception of North Korean Defectors’ Survival Narratives,” in South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea, edited by Youna Kim, Routledge, 2019: 162-175 (supported by the Korean Government, UNESCO).
“The Challenge of Cyber Novel as a New Form of Literature: My Sassy Girl (Yŏpkijŏgin Kŭnyŏ),” The Journal of English Cultural Studies, Vol. 5. No.1, 2012: 149-185.
Education
Ph.D. in Asian Literature, Religion & Culture, Cornell University
M.A. in Asian Studies, Cornell University
B.A. in East Asian Literature and Culture; English and English Literature, Columbia University School of General Studies
Departments and programs
Hoai Khai Tran
Visiting Lecturer
Education
Ph.D., Cornell University, Asian Literature, Religion & Culture, 2021
M.A., Cornell University, Asian Studies, 2006
B.A., George Washington University, 2003
Departments and programs
Asiya Zahoor
Publications
Book (Academic)
Language and Migration: Investigating Psycholinguistic Processes, Saarbrücken: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010.
Articles/Chapters
Books
“Women in Kashmiri Literature: Contested Femininities”, in Nitasha Kaul and Ather Zia, eds. Knowing in Our Own Ways: Women and Kashmir. New Delhi: Women Un-limited, forthcoming in 2020.
“Translation as Linguistic Crossing Over”, in Translation: A Bridge between Cultures. New Delhi: Sahitya Akademi, forthcoming in 2020.
“An Alternative Approach for Teaching Hindi Structures to Foreign Learner Groups”, Collected Papers: International Conference on Hindi Studies National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO) Paris; published in Ghanshyam Sharma, ed. Advances in Hindi Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 50, Studies in Indo-European Languages, p. 57-68. LINCOM, München: Germany, 2018.
“Mental Representations of Morphologically Complex Words: A Psycholinguistic Investigation into the Difference in LI and L2 Processing”, in Vaishna Narang, ed. Learning Theories and Pedagogical Practices, vol 2, p. 341-349. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2013.
Journals
“Politics of Place”, Global Education, Society and Development, 9/2 and 3 (2018): 65- 70.
“Representation: Kashmir in Indian Cinema and Literature”, Culture, Society and Law, 4/2 (2017): 147-53.
“On the Cusp of the Modern: Jeelani Bano’s Short Stories”, Book Review Trust (2017):61-65.
“Kashmir in the Writings of Agha Shahid Ali and Rafiq Kathwari”, Lapis Lazuli, Autumn (2017):224-234.
“Circles of Literature and Circles of Love”, Miras, May (2013): 92-97.
“Agha Shahid Ali: A Poet in Exile”, Kashmir Currents, January (2012):22-27.
“Beyond the Nation: A Case for Caribbean Writings,” in Unbroken Wings: Collected Papers. Tbilisi: Publishing House Universal, 2010, pp. 111-18.
“The Effect of Age on Language Processing”, Language of Issues: The Journal of NATECLA, 21/2 (2010): 33-41.
“Split in the Soul: A Study of Derek Walcott’s Poetry”, Oxonian Review of Books, 7/2 (2008):31-35.
“Poetics, Politics and Linguistics: Dismantling Androcentric and Colonial Assumptions”. Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics, vol. 1 (2008): 91-94.
“Language and Hybridity in Caribbean Aesthetics: A Survey of Derek Walcott's Writing”, English Studies in India: A Journal of Literature and Language (2005): 101-08.
Poetry
• Serpents Under my Veil. New Delhi: Tethys, 2019.
Education
Ph.D., Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi India, 2018
MSc, University of Oxford, Applied Linguistics, 2009
MPhil, University of Kashmir, Caribbean Diasporic Literature, 2009
M.A., University of Kashmir, English, 2004
B.A., Women's College Baramulla, University of Kashmir (Arts), 2001
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Ivanna Sang Een Yi
Assistant Professor
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:
"Communal Mourning and Contemporary Elegy in Korean Poetry: Kim Hyesoon's Autobiography of Death." Journal of World Literature 8 (2023) 62-78.
"Continuing Orality in Korean Literature: Opening a P'an for the Page," in Heekyoung Cho, ed., Routledge Companion to Korean Literature. London and N.Y.: Routledge, 2022, 371-382.
"Cartographies of the Voice: Storying the Land as Survivance in Native American Oral Traditions." Humanities 5, no. 3 (2016).
"Cartographies of the Voice: Storying the Land as Survivance in Native American Oral Traditions," in Karen Thornber and Thomas Havens, eds., Global Indigeneities and the Environment. Basel: MDPI, 2016. 206-221.
Other Publications:
"The Corporeality of Writing: Kim Hyesoon's Autobiography of Death." Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 13 (2020), 371-381.
"Engaging P'ansori as a Living Organism," Korean Literature Now 47 (2020), 59-61.
Translations:
"Translations of Classical and Modern Sijo," Sijo: An International Journal of Poetry and Song 1 (2018), 33,39,48,71.
"River and Other Sijo Poems: Translations of Contemporary Sijo," Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture 4 (2011), 193-204.
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
A.M., Harvard University, Regional Studies - East Asia
B.A., Yale University, English, with honors
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Jingya Guo
PhD Candidate
Publications
Book Review
Book Review of Lu Shuying’s Infant Feeding and the Reconstruction of Motherhood in Modern China (Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2020) in Chinese Studies in History, Volume 56, Issue 1, 2023.
Public History Writing
Interview with TJ Hinrichs on the Diverse Imaginations of Chinese Medicine and Healing Practices, the Paper 澎湃, 2020. (https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_10020482)
Review of Yi Ruolan’s Three Nuns and Six Grannies: Exploration of Ming Women and Society San gu liu po: Mingdai funü yu shehui de Shijian (Shanghai: Zhong xi shuju, 2019), the Paper 澎湃, 2019. (https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_4993286)
Education
2019-present: Ph.D. student, Department of History, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2016-2018: Master of Arts in History and Museum Studies, Tufts University, Boston, MA.
2012-2016: Bachelor of Arts in History, Zhejiang Normal University, Zhejiang, China.
Departments and programs
Keywords
History of Body
History of Gender and Sexuality
Late Imperial China
History of Medicine
Material Culture
History of Knowledge