Current Graduate Students

Students in the Ph.D. program in the field of Asian Literature, Religion & Culture

Vincent Burgess
Vincent Burgess
discourses of abnegation and the cultural/counter-cultural articulations of asceticism and renunciation in North Indian religious movements, specifically regarding the utilization/abnegation of intoxicants and dietary restrictions
e-mail: veb24@cornell.edu
Patrick Cummins
Patrick Cummins
Sanskrit; poetics, grammar, hermeneutics, and logic
e-mail: ptc46@cornell.edu
Kevin Dong
Kevin Dong
modern Chinese poetry, ghosts, and critical theory
e-mail: zd227@cornell.edu
Yunfei Du
Yunfei Du
contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese labor culture & migrant worker poetry, subaltern studies, Marxism
e-mail: yd363@cornell.edu
Yuanyuan Duan
Yuanyuan Duan
writing and reading practices of Buddhist multilingual texts found in Southwest China (11-16th century)
e-mail: yd382@cornell.edu
Yuanxue Jing

Yuanxue Jing
Japanese electronic literature, video games, and digital media
e-mail: yj458@cornell.edu

Joshua Kam
Joshua Chun Wah Kam
culinary connections to the Middle East in classical Malay and Javanese Sufism
e-mail: jk2357@cornell.edu
Anna Koshcheeva
Anna Koshcheeva
imagining of Laos at the crossroads of the Cold War
e-mail: ak2597@cornell.edu
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Yanting-Leah Li
deep ecology and solidarity with the nonhuman through affective mediation of soundscapes, atmospheric poetics, contemporary Chinese poetry
e-mail: yl3376@cornell.edu
Chengxiang Lin
Chengxiang Lin
modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture; Chinese poetry and poetics; media history and theory; the relations between literature and technology
e-mail: cl2354@cornell.edu
MK Long
Mary Kate (MK) Long
women and gender in Buddhism; Buddhist institutions in Burma/Myanmar and Southeast Asia; religious diversity; friendship
e-mail: ml2458@cornell.edu
Xiaoyue Luo
Xiaoyue Luo
late imperial Chinese literature and print culture
e-mail: xl887@cornell.edu
Andrea Mariucci
Andrea Mariucci
Japanese studies, digital media, and popular culture
e-mail: am2566@cornell.edu
Su-Yeon Seo
Su-Yeon Seo
literary, intellectual, and cultural history of premodern Sinitic dictionaries and encyclopedias; history of linguistic thoughts, organization of knowledge and information
e-mail: ss2872@cornell.edu
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Saumya Sethia
e-mail: ss2842@cornell.edu
Bruno Shirley
Bruno Shirley
Buddhist kingship; the Pāli Cosmopolis (particularly Sri Lanka); textual and material records
e-mail: bms297@cornell.edu
Sirithorn Siriwan
Sirithorn (Ing) Siriwan
rice rituals and performances in Northern Thailand
e-mail: ss3756@cornell.edu
Casey Stevens
Casey Stevens
medieval Chinese poetry, specifically that of the Tang; cultural history, literary reception, and ontological frameworks created through poetry
e-mail: cs2435@cornell.edu
Amy Wei
Amy An Wei
contemporary Japanese literature; post-disaster fiction; queer studies; disability studies
e-mail: aaw82@cornell.edu
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Tsuguta Yamashita
Japanese post-imperial impact on Indonesia
e-mail: ty355@cornell.edu
Yumeng Zhang
Yumeng Zhang
Chinese literature in Tang China
e-mail: yz2694@cornell.edu

Students in the M.A. program in the field of Asian Studies

Ian Bellows
Ian Bellows
development of multivalent identities within mono-ethnic Sherpa communities in Nepal's Solukhumbu region
e-mail: idb8@cornell.edu
Hairuo Cao
Hairuo Cao
Asian family dynamics; feminism, gender, and sexuality; translation studies
e-mail: hc885@cornell.edu
Yujia Chen

Yujia Chen
popular Japanese culture
e-mail: yc2735@cornell.edu

Narumol Choochan
Narumol Choochan
Thai judicial procedure; Thai human rights activism
e-mail: nc488@cornell.edu
Lingyu Dong
Lingyu Dong
rural society in China, cultural anthropology, development study
e-mail: ld488@cornell.edu
Xiao Hong
Xiao Hong
modern Chinese literature and culture
e-mail: xh373@cornell.edu
Anna Naiyapatana
Anna Naiyapatana
politics of gender in Thai education, student activism, and youth culture; Thai American identity
e-mail: aan38@cornell.edu
Sarita Pariyar
Sarita Pariyar
caste, gender, and sexuality in Nepal
e-mail: sp2547@cornell.edu
Nikita Sukmono
Nikita Sukmono
themes of democratization, ethnic identity/identity politics, and comparative analysis in Southeast Asia
e-mail: nas324@cornell.edu
Katherine Tran
Katherine Tran
media studies, gender and sexuality, and contemporary society in relation to East Asia
e-mail: kat95@cornell.edu
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