Asian Languages & Literature

Projects

Collage of photos taken at Shanghai Film Museum, Korea Film Archive, and Tokyo Film Center

Negotiating Carceral Regimes in the Global South: Crime and Punishment Across the Islamic World

21st Century, Asian Languages & Literature, Capitalism, Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media

Shadows of people stand in a dark room with specks of white light.

Constellation of Asian Racialization

Asian American, Asian Languages & Literature, Race

Articles

Poster for Socially Engaged Art in Japan

The Show Goes On

Japan, Visual Culture, Asian Languages & Literature

Close-up showing toy tank with text of "Hum Dekhenge"

Jennifer Dubrow’s New Article Explores the Power of Urdu Poetry and Political Protest

Poetry, Asian Languages & Literature, Social Justice

Reiko Yamanaka Visits Simpson Center as Visiting Scholar

Visiting Scholars, Asian Languages & Literature

Painting of 18th century singer and poet Bani-thani

Heidi Pauwels awarded NEH fellowship

Awards, Asian Languages & Literature, India

Tughra (Insignia) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–1566)

Now Open to the Public and Online: "Is there a Persianate Modernity?" Symposium

Middle East, South Asia, Asian Languages & Literature

Participants of the workshop at work deciphering manuscripts in Smith Hall seminar room on July 6, 2022. Photo courtesy Sabeena Shaikh.

Braj and Beyond

Asian Languages & Literature, Translation Studies

2020 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow Receives Prestigious Award

Cinema, Asian Languages & Literature, China, Digital Humanities

People

Ungsan Kim (he/him/his)

Ungsan Kim us an Assistant Professor of Asian Cinema jointly appointed in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of Film, Television, and Media.

Asian Languages & Literature, Cinema, East Asia, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Visual Culture

Close up of Hope smiling at the camera, long hair parted the side and in front of her right shoulder, behind her left shoulder. She is wearing a green patterned top and the backdrop is a cream color.

Hope Reidun St. John

Hope St. John is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology studying photographic practice in contemporary Qingdao.

Anthropology, Asian Languages & Literature, China, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cosmopolitanism, Digital Humanities, Globalization, Identity and Culture, Urbanism, Visual Culture

Nathaniel Bond wears a blue collared shirt while sitting in a chair and looking into the camera.

Nathaniel Bond (he/him/his)

Nathaniel Bond's work lies in postwar Japanese literary dark humor. He is interested in those things that we laugh at despite ourselves, whether because of the setting or the material itself.

20th Century, 21st Century, Affect Studies, Asian Languages & Literature, Japan

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Projects

Inter-Asian Historiophoty

Modality in Classical Chinese

Memory Construction and Emotion in India, Past and Present