Current Graduate Students

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

Meera Sridhara
Meera Cudali Sridhara
e-mail: mc3222@cornell.edu
Kevin Dong
Kevin Dong
modern Chinese poetry, ghosts, and critical theory
e-mail: zd227@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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Win Kyaw
reception of Pali/Sanskrit literature in premodern and contemporary Myanmar
e-mail: whk47@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
John Lo
John Yu-Yang Lo
e-mail: jyl97@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
Sarita Pariyar
Sarita Pariyar
caste, gender, and sexuality in Nepal
e-mail: sp2547@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
Krishna Subrahmanian
Krishna Subrahmanian
e-mail: ks2467@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
Ruiying Zhang
Ruiying Zhang
modern and contemporary Chinese literature and history; science fiction studies; history of technology
e-mail: rz464@cornell.edu
Yumeng Zhang
Yumeng Zhang
Temple and Tomb Complexes in Medieval China; material culture, ritual practice, literary studies
e-mail: yz2694@cornell.edu

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

June Boonyanuphong
Thitirat "June" Boonyanuphong
e-mail: tb374@cornell.edu
Jue Chen
Jue Chen
Asian Studies Gateway Fellowship recipient, 2024-2025 and 2025-2026
early modern Chinese history, material culture in East Asia, cultural circulation
e-mail: jc3693@cornell.edu
Zhen Huo
Zhen Huo 
e-mail: zh497@cornell.edu
Sydney Johnston
Sydney Johnston
Asian Studies Gateway Fellowship recipient, 2025-2026 and 2026-2027
Thai popular religion, economics of religion, commodification of religion in contemporary Thailand, and animism and Hinduism in Thai religious practices
e-mail: sj883@cornell.edu
Han Li
Han Li
regional studies and comparative literature, especially Chinese literature, English and Russian translations of Chinese literature, and the cultural influences of these translations
e-mail: hl2574@cornell.edu
Sijia Li
Sijia Li
e-mail: si3584@cornell.edu
Qingyin Liu
Qingyin Liu
e-mail: ql358@cornell.edu
Carrie Mo
Zhixia (Carrie) Mo
China–Southeast Asia, digital diaspora & migration, creative industries, cinephile networks, gender & media, media ethnography
e-mail: zm328@cornell.edu
Luxi Wang
Luxi Wang
e-mail: lw785@cornell.edu
Zhengkangli Yu
Zhengkangli Yu
e-mail: zy472@cornell.edu
Yuhua Zhou
Yuhua Zhou
contemporary Chinese poetry and poetics, and cultural identity in diaspora literature
e-mail: yz3466@cornell.edu
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