The Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures engages in multidisciplinary research and has events affiliated with multiple departments including Asian Studies, Comparative Literature, and Religious Studies. We are also affiliated with institutes and centers that support our scholarship and advocacy.
Research Across Disciplines
The Eastern Asian Languages and Literatures department is connected to a wide variety of academic programs and centers that help broaden the scope of our advocacy and academic work. Our faculty have published their works broadly and received awards for their contributions to the field.
"I research the nuclear environmental humanities through contemporary cultural production including literature, film, and manga. My new book, "Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema" (Association for Asian Studies, September 2024), is the first edited volume dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japanese film, covering 17 films from 1954-2020."
–Rachel DiNitto, Professor
“My research on language, gender, and digital culture, published in leading international peer-reviewed journals for interdisciplinary scholarship such as China Information and Plos ONE, breaks new paths in the study of meaning making and meaning change in the digital era. The collaborative work has expanded intellectual horizons and professional connections for me and my graduate students.”
–Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Professor
“With an Academy of Korean Studies grant for my project “Transpacific Resonances: Pahk Induk’s Radio Lectures, Voice of America, and the Cultural Politics of Wartime Radio”, I will be researching at the Library of Congress and the National Archives in summer 2024. This project studies Pahk’s (1897-1980) life, writing, lectures, and radio talks to understand how speech, voice, and sound intertwine with Cold War cosmopolitanism, twentieth-century gender politics, technologies of women's self-writing, and global Asian diasporic aesthetics.”
–Jina Kim, Associate Professor
