People
Department Leadership
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Head, Department of Asian Studies
Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy
![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
![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
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
Teaching Faculty
![Hyun Soon (Julie) Cho-Min](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Hyun-Soon-Julie-Cho-Min.jpg)
![Chunyuan Di](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Chunyuan-Di.jpg)
![Ying Feng](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/yingfeng.jpg)
![Erika Hirano](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Ehirano.jpg)
![](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Haruko-headshot-224x300.jpg)
Associate Teaching Professor of Japanese
Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program
![Ritu Jayakar](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2022/08/image1-246x300.png)
![](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Lan-Kim.jpg)
Associate Teaching Professor of Korean
Coordinator of the Korean Language Program
![Ok-sim Kim](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/oksimkim.jpg)
![](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Yupeng-Kou_PSU-2022-300x300.jpg)
Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese
Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program
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![S Long](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/S-Long.jpg)
![Miki Murakami](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/mvm6695.jpg)
![Natsuko Osada](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/nuo2.jpg)
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Lecturer of Korean
![Na-Young Ryu](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Nayoung-Ryu.png)
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![fang wan](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Fang-Wan.jpg)
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Lecturer of Korean
Visiting Scholars
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Visiting Scholar
Affiliate Faculty
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies
![Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/mxb1065.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Art Education & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
![Soo-yong Byun](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Soo-yong-Byun.png)
Associate Professor of Education, Demography, and Asian Studies
(814) 863-1626
![Suresh Canagarajah](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Suresh-Canagarajah-199x300.jpg)
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies
Director, Migration Studies Project
(814) 865-6229
![Madhuri Desai](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Madhuri-Desai-300x300.jpg)
![E Hayot](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/E-Hayot.jpg)
Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
(814) 865-1188
![Ronnie Hsia](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Ronnie-Hsia.jpg)
![](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/ElaineHui.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Asian Studies
(814) 865-0066
![Prakash Kumar](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/P-Kumar.jpg)
![](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/placeholder-image-person-jpg-300x248.jpg)
![sara liao](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/sara-liao.jpg)
![Xiaofei Lu](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Xiaofei-Lu.jpg)
![kim powell](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/kim-powell.png)
Associate Professor of Education, Art Education and Asian Studies
(814) 865-7318
![Bee-yan Roberts](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Bee-yan-Roberts.jpg)
![](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Gonzalo-Rubio.png)
Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and History
![Mary SHenk](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Mary-shenk.jpg)
![Gregory Smits](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Gregory-Smits.jpg)
![Vineeta Yadav](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Vineeta-Yadav.jpg)
![Boliang Zhu](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Boliang-Zhu.jpg)
Graduate Students
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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/.
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![Rebecca Cross](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/rlc21.jpg)
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![Tom Spencer Headshot](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/08/Tom-Spencer-Headshot.jpg)
Emeriti Faculty
![Gretchen Casper](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/gretchen.jpeg)
Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies
(814) 865-8748
![R Tachibana](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/r-tachibana.jpg)
Emerita Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies