Asian & Middle East Studies Faculty

Islamic history, history of Central Eurasia, Ottoman history, women and gender in Islamic history.

Foreign language pedagogy, linguistics, computer-assisted language instruction.

Medieval art history, Asian art history.

Buddhist philosophy and psychology, Yogacara, Zen Buddhism

Modern imperial Britain, colonial and global history, postcolonial science studies, race, gender and disability studies

Post-colonial literature(s) and theory, South Asian literature, Canadian diasporic writing.

Byzantine art, Greek epigraphy, epigrams, and ekphrasis

Sculpture, Installation, Contemporary Art Practice

Chinese politics, development Nation-States, Asian Politics

Postcolonial studies, critical theory, transnational studies.

Cultural identity formation and contestation, global and local dynamics of mass media, media ethnography, reception studies, indigenous modes of (self-re)presentation, subject-generated imagery, life history, Native North America, Southeast and East Asia.

Contemporary Arabic literature, Arab women’s writing, literary and cultural theory, gender studies, translation studies

History of India and South Asia, Indian politics, globalization and migration, transnational communities.

Ethics, Political Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Eco-Philosophy (Environmental Philosophy and Climate Change)

Premodern Japanese literature, Sino-Japanese comparisons and interactions, Sino-Japanese (kanbun) literature.

Arts of Asia, late imperial to contemporary China, cultural heritage

Modern and contemporary art, Chinese art history

Chinese poetry, women's writing, Qing-dynasty literature

Chinese religions, Neo-Confucianism

Chinese and inner-Asian history, comparative history of north Asia 11th-14th centuries, Mongol empire.