Results for "Center for East Asian Studies"

Created in 2004, the center is housed in the Department of Asian Studies, and features a diverse faculty from fields such as anthropology, history, literature, language pedagogy, and political science. Focusing primarily on contemporary East Asian cultures, societies, and languages, Center scholars have conducted research on issues relating to classical and modern literature, consumerism, demography, film, gender, language instruction, poetry, popular culture, religion and ritual, social movements, and transnational migration. The primary mission of the Center is to promote research related to East Asian cultures and societies, to enrich the learning experiences of undergraduate and graduate students interested in the region, and to encourage interdisciplinary collaboration on East Asia throughout the University of Texas at Austin campus.

Website: http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/eastasia/?path%5B0%5D=eastasia

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Sung-Sheng Yvonne Chang

Affiliated Departments:
Asian Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Comparative Literature
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Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang

Updated on May 9, 2021

Dr. Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies and the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at…

Wenhong Chen

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Asian American Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Sociology, Radio-Television-Film, School of Journalism
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Dr. Chen has focused on digital media technologies in entrepreneurial and organizational settings. Chen's research interests include the social implications of digital meda and communication technologies, social…

Kirsten Fischer

Affiliated Departments:
Asian Studies, Center for East Asian Studies
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censorship of literature and film in modern Japan, modern adaptations of premodern Japanese literature

Lalitha Gopalan

Affiliated Departments:
Radio-Television-Film, Asian Studies, South Asia Institute, Center for East Asian Studies
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Her research and teaching interests are in the areas of Film Theory, Feminist Film Theory, Contemporary World Cinemas, Indian Cinema, Genre Films, and Experimental Film and Video.

Heather Hindman

Affiliated Departments:
Anthropology, Asian Studies, South Asia Institute
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Anthropology; Gender Studies; South Asia; Globalization
Critical development, expatriate communities, tourism, social theory, global labor and gender, bureaucracy, entrepreneurialism, social aspects of…

Camilla H Hsieh

Affiliated Departments:
Asian Studies
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Chinese language, translation, social and personality psychology

Madeline Hsu

Affiliated Departments:
Center for Asian American Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Mexican American Studies
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Migration studies, Asian American history, Chinese overseas, U.S. immigration
Co-editor with Marcelo Borges, Donna Gabaccia, “Cambridge History of Global Migrations,” Vol. II. Under preparation.
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Ward Keeler

Affiliated Departments:
Américo Paredes Center for Cultural Studies, Anthropology, South Asia Institute
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Anthropology and expressive culture, including music, theatre, and literature; language and culture; postcoloniality; Java and Bali (Indonesia), and Burma.
Dr. Keeler is interested in the ways that people in…