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
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
Associate Teaching Professor of Hindi
Coordinator of the Hindi Language Program
Visiting Scholars
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