Faculty
![Jessica Abel](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/jabel.jpg)
![john abel](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/john-abel.jpg)
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![K Baldanza](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/k-baldanza.jpg)
![Jess Birkenholtz](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Jess-B.jpg)
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-5747
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Head, Department of Asian Studies
Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy
![Tina CHen](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/tinachen.jpg)
Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias
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Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies
(814) 863-4933
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![On-Cho Ng](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/On-Cho-Ng.jpg)
![Jooyeon Rhee](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Jooyeon-Rhee.jpg)
Dorothy W. Gilpatrick University Endowed Fellow in the Humanities
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
Director of the Institute for Korean Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
![Shuang shen](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/shuang-shen-240x300.jpg)
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese
(814) 863-0589
![Jayoung Song](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/jayoungsong.jpg)
Watz Early Career Professor in Language and Linguistics
Assistant Professor of Korean and Applied Linguistics
![Susan Strauss](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/SStrauss.jpg)
Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
Editor, The Korean Language in America Penn State University
(814) 863-7986
![chang tan](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/chang-tan.jpg)
![N Volland](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/N-Volland.jpg)
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
(814) 867-3422
![xiaoye you](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/xiaoye-you.jpg)
![Ning Yu](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/ningyu.jpg)
![Ran Zwigenberg](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Ran-Zwigenberg.jpg)
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies
Director of Graduate Studies