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
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
Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Head, Department of Asian Studies
Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy
Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias
Global Asias Initiative Director
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
Watz Early Career Professor in Language and Linguistics
Assistant Professor of Korean and Applied Linguistics
Professor of Asian Studies, Applied Linguistics, Linguistics, and Education
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
Associate Teaching Professor of Chinese
Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program
Lecturer of Korean
Visiting Scholars
Affiliate Faculty
Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies
Associate 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
George C. and Jane G. Greer Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
(814) 865-4692
Associate Professor of Education, Art Education and Asian Studies
(814) 865-7318
Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and History
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/.
Emeriti Faculty
Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies
(814) 865-8748
Emerita Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies