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Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures


Degree Programs: Full-Time: M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Full-Time/Part-Time: Free-Standing M.A.

Chair: Robert Hymes, Ph.D.
407 Kent
Tel: 212.854.2574
Fax: 212.678.8629


Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Graduate Student Teaching: Wei Shang, Ph.D.
418 Kent
Tel: 212.854.1526
Fax: 212.678.8629


M.A. Advisor: Wendy Swartz, Ph.D.
406 Kent Hall
Tel: 212.854.9784


Dissertation Sponsors

Paul Anderer:
Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1979
Interests: Japanese literature, film, and criticism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Charles Armstrong:
Associate Professor (History), Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994
Interests: modern Korean history and politics, the international history of East Asia, and ideology and international relations in the Asia Pacific, issues of ethnicity and boundary making in Northeast Asia
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Michael Como:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 2000
Interests: Japanese religion
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wm. Theodore deBary:
Professor Emeritus, Ph.D., Columbia, 1953
Interests: Chinese and Japanese thought;Confucianism and Human Rights
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wiebke Denecke:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Harvard, 2004
Interests: Premodern Chinese and Japanese Literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Bernard Faure:
Professor, Ph.D., Paris University, 1984
Interests: Japanese religion
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Carol Gluck:
George Sansom Professor of History, Ph.D., Columbia, 1977
Interests: Modern Japanese intellectual history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Jahyun Kim Haboush:
Professor (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., Columbia, 1978
Interests: Korean Studies; Pre-modern and early modern Korean history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Theodore Hughes:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., UCLA, 2002
Interests: Modern Korean Literature;narratives of collaboration and occupation in immediate postliberation Korea
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Robert Hymes:
Professor, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1979
Interests: Medieval and early modern Chinese social and cultural history (Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties); anthropological approaches to history; elites; religion; print culture; social and cultural networks.
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Dorothy Ko:
Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1989
Interests: Chinese History, Chinese cultural history, seventeenth to twentieth centuries, history of the body
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Eugenia Lean:
Assistant Professor (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., UCLA, 2001
Interests: Chinese History; History of emotions and gender in China; urban culture and consumer society in late imperial and modern China; law and media in twentieth-century China
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Feng Li:
Assistant Professor (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., Chicago, 2001
Interests: Chinese History
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Lydia Liu:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1990
Interests: Modern Chinese literarture and culture
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Lurie:
Assistant Professor (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., Columbia, 2001
Interests: Japanese literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
David Max Moerman:
Assistant Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., Stanford
Interests: East Asian religion and Asian studies
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gregory M. Pflugfelder:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Stanford, 1996
Interests: Japanese literature;Early modern and modern Japanese history; historical constructions of gender and sexuality
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wei Shang:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1994
Interests: Chinese literature;Late Imperial fiction, Qing materials, Classical Chinese
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Haruo Shirane:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1983
Interests: Japanese literature and culture; prose fiction, poetry, poetics, literary theory, and cultural history
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Henry D. Smith:
Professor, Ph.D., Harvard, 1970
Interests: Japanese history;Urban and cultural history of nineteenth-century Japan
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Tomi Suzuki:
Associate Professor, Ph.D., Yale, 1988
Interests: Japanese and comparative literature;Nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative fiction and criticism; literary and cultural theory, particularly narrativity, genre, gender, and modernity; canon formation and historiography
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Wendy Swartz:
Assistant Professor, Ph.D., UCLA, 2003
Interests: Chinese Literature
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Gray Tuttle:
Leila Hadley Luce Assistant Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Ph.D., Harvard, 2002
Interests: 20th Century Sino-Tibetan relations;Tibetan history and relations with China from the Qing to the Republican periods
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Guobin Yang:
Associate Professor (Barnard), Ph.D., NYU, 2000
Interests: Modern Chinese history and society
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Chun-fang Yu:
Professor, Ph.D., Columbia, 1973
Interests: Chinese religions, East Asian Buddhism
Approved Dissertation Sponsor
Madeleine Zelin:
Professor;Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1979
Interests: Chinese history;Modern legal history and the role of law in the Chinese economy
Approved Dissertation Sponsor




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