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East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies

Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
Humanities and Social Sciences 4001
Telephone: (805) 893-5478
Website: www.eastasian.ucsb.edu
Department Chair: Katherine Saltzman-Li


 
Faculty
Akiyo Cantrell, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Continuing Lecturer (Japanese Language)
Bella Chen, Continuing Lecturer
Howard Chiang, Professor
William Fleming, PhD, Harvard University, Associate Professor (early modern Japanese literature, theater, and cultural history; reception of Chinese literature in Japan; history of the book in East Asia)
Sabine Fruhstuck, PhD, University of Vienna, Professor (modern/contemporary history, ethnography, sociology, and cultural studies of Japan; power, sexuality, violence, childhood, war and military, knowledge systems)
Daoxiong Guan, MA, Washington University; M.S. Nanjing University, Continuing Lecturer (Chinese language)
Susan Hwang, Assistant Professor
Suma Ikeuchi, Associate Professor
Xiaorong Li, PhD, McGill University, Professor (Chinese literature, gender and Ming-Qing literature)
Tom Mazanec, Associate Professor
Fabio Rambelli, PhD, University of Venice and Oriental University Institute, Naples, Professor (Japanese religions and intellectual history, Buddhist studies, Shinto studies; semiotics; transnational intellectual networks in East Asia) Joint Appointment: RELST
Katherine Saltzman-Li, PhD, Stanford University, Associate Professor (Pre-modern Japanese theatre, literature, and folklore)
Dominic Steavu-Balint, PhD, Stanford University, Associate Professor (Chinese religions, Chinese Buddhism, Daoism, history of technology) Joint Appointment: RELST
Peter Sturman, PhD, Yale University, Professor (Early to modern Chinese painting and calligraphy; Japanese art) Joint Appointment: ARTHI
Hangping Xu, Assistant Professor
Yoko Yamauchi, Continuing Lecturer
Mayfair Yang, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (anthropology, China , critical theory, media, gender, state) Joint Appointment: RELST
Xiaowei Zheng, PhD, UC San Diego, Associate Professor (political and social history of China, political culture of China) Joint Appointment: HIST

 
Emeriti Faculty
Ronald Egan, PhD, Harvard University (Chinese literature, aesthetics)
Allan Grapard, PhD, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris (medieval Japanese religion)
Haruko Iwasaki, PhD, Harvard University (18th-century Japanese popular literature)
Ann-Elise Lewallen, PhD, University of Michigan
Tomiko Narahara, PhD, Harvard University (Japanese linguistics)
John Nathan, PhD, Harvard University
William Powell, PhD, UC Berkeley (history of religions ? China) Joint Appointment: RELST
Kuo-Ch'ing Tu, PhD, Stanford University
Hsiao-Jung Yu, PhD, UC Berkeley

 
Affiliated Faculty
Laurie Freeman, PhD (Political Science)
Yunte Huang, PhD (English)
Kate McDonald, PhD (History)
David Novak, PhD (Music)
Luke Roberts, PhD (History)
Bhaskar Sarkar, PhD (Film and Media Studies)
Paul Spickard, PhD (History)
Peter Sturman, PhD (History of Art and Architecture, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies)
Naoki Yamamoto, PhD (Film and Media Studies)
Xiaojian Zhao, PhD (Asian American Studies)