People
Department Leadership

Head, Department of Asian Studies
Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy

Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies
Director of Graduate Studies

Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
Director of the Institute for Korean Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Faculty


Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Japanese
(814) 865-2263



Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-5747

Head, Department of Asian Studies
Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy



Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies
(814) 865-8748

Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias
(814) 863-9592


Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies
(814) 863-4933


Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
Director of the Institute for Korean Studies
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
(814) 865-4847

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese
(814) 863-0589

Watz Early Career Professor in Language and Linguistics
Assistant Professor of Korean and Applied Linguistics

Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
Editor, The Korean Language in America Penn State University
(814) 863-7986


Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
(814) 867-3422



Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies
Director of Graduate Studies
Teaching Faculty





Associate Teaching Professor of Japanese
Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program


Associate Teaching Professor of Korean
Coordinator of the Korean Language Program


Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese
Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program










Visiting Scholars



Visiting Scholar


Affiliate Faculty

Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies

Assistant Professor of Art Education & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Associate Professor of Education, Demography, and Asian Studies
(814) 863-1626

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies
Director, Migration Studies Project
(814) 865-6229


Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
(814) 865-1188


Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Asian Studies
(814) 865-0066





Associate Professor of Education, Art Education and Asian Studies
(814) 865-7318


Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and History
(814) 863-4946




Graduate Students




Staff
Asian Studies is a part of the School of Global Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SGLLC). The entire list of relevant staff can be found at https://sgllc.la.psu.edu/people/.

Administrative Support Coordinator
Head/Department Support
(814) 863-4288



Emeriti Faculty

Emerita Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies