Ramaesh Bhagirat
Assistant Professor
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Assistant Professor
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Research Interests
- Race, racism, and mixed race studies
- Asian and African Diasporas in the Americas
- Latin American and Caribbean history
- South Asian diasporas
- Festivals, music, and performative culture
- Indigeneity
Research Interests
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- Pre-modern Chinese poetry and poetics
- Confucianism
- Translation of pre-modern Chinese literature
- Language and culture pedagogy
Teaching Interests
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- History of Chinese Literature
- Confucian Ethics
- Translation of pre-modern Chinese literature
- Chinese language and culture
John Cheng
jcheng@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- comparative transnational and intersectional studies of race; gender; and nation
- popular culture; media; and technology
- the history of earth; life; and human sciences and of computing
- historiography and critical theory
Teaching Interests
- Asian American history
- race and popular culture
- comparative transnational racial formation
- historical methods and documentary history
- digital culture and literacy
Mariko Hashimoto
mhashimo@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
Japanese Pragmatics,Japanese Culture and Second Language Acquisition
Research Interests
- Diaspora and Transnationalism
- Mobility Studies
- Urban Studies
- Macroanalysis and Digital Humanities
- Queer Studies
Teaching Interests
- Asian American Literature and Culture
- Diasporic Literature
- Literary Criticism and Theory
- Digital Humanities
- Korean and Korean American Literature and Culture
Nicholas Kaldis
Associate Professor; Director of Chinese Studies
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
Aesthetic Cognition in the Fiction and Film of China & Taiwan,Psychoanalytic Theory and Chinese Cultural Production,Chinese-to-English Translation,Lu Xun StudiesTeaching Interests
20th Century Chinese Literature,Fiction and Film in Post-colonial Taiwan,Sinophone Cinemas,Intersections of Western Theory and Chinese Culture,Chinese-to-English Translation,Writing and Composition,Chinese Language
Shu-Min Tung-Kaldis
smkaldis@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
Chinese Language Pedagogy,Chinese Stamp Carving,Bookmaking,Chinese Woodcut; Silkscreen; Lithography and Intaglio Printmaking,Watercolor Painting,Chinese Culinary Arts
Thiam Huat Kam
tkam2@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Media and popular culture in Japan
- Transmedia franchises and fandom
- Capitalism and consumption
- Hobby, leisure, play
- Labor, value and affect
Teaching Interests
- Japanese popular culture
- Introduction to critical media studies
- Media, technology and Asia
- Conditions for creating cultures in East Asia
Qifei Kao
TRIP Affiliated Faculty
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
- Chinese linguistics
- Teaching Chinese as a second/foreign language
- Pedagogical translation
- Translation in language teaching
Teaching Interests
- Chinese language
- English-to-Chinese translation
- Chinese calligraphy
Sonja Kim
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Korea and Comparative East Asia
- Medicine
- Health
- Gender
- Race and Class
- Education and Welfare
Teaching Interests
- Korean and East Asian History
- Gender; Migration; Race; Nation and Empire
- History of Medicine; Science and Technology
Research Interests
- Teaching Korean as a Second/Foreign Language
- Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
- Second Language Acquisition
- Korean Linguistics
Teaching Interests
- Korean as a Second/Foreign Language
- Korean through pop music, dramas, and variety shows
- Korean Pop Culture
- Korean Linguistics
Hye Won Kim
hkim132@binghamton.edu
Junyoung Kim
Assistant Professor of Korea and Diaspora Studies
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Nannan Liu
Assistant Professor of Translation Studies
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Assistant Professor of Translation Studies
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Interpreting studies
- Translation studies
- Computational linguistics
- Corpus linguistics
- Cognitive linguistics
Teaching Interests
- Working with Language Data (TRIP/LING)
- Introduction to Computer-Assisted Translation (TRIP)
- Scholarly Methods in Translation Studies (TRIP)
- Teaching Computers Asian Languages (AAAS/TRIP/LING)
Cynthia Marasigan
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- U.S. empire
- Comparative and relational studies of race
- Philippine and Filipino American history
- Afro-Asian histories
Teaching Interests
- Asian American history
- U.S. empire, race and citizenship
- Philippine and Filipino American history
- Afro-Asian histories
- Mixed race families
Research Interests
- Korean as a foreign language pedagogy
- Heritage language education and identities
- Sociolinguistics
- AI-assisted language learning
- Multiculturalism and language ideologies
Teaching Interests
- Korean as a foreign language
- Aspects of multilingualism
- Language, culture, and society in Korea
- Korean as a heritage language
Michael Pettid
mpettid@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
Premodern Korea (history; literature; culture; religions),Korean folklore and shamanism,Korean Confucianism,Daily life in premodern Korea (diet; housing; clothing; educational institutions; entertainment)
Junko Schwartzman
jischwar@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Language pedagogy
- Extensive reading
- Active learning
- Professional Japanese
Chenqing Song
Associate Professor, Interim Graduate Director
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
TRIP Courtesy Title
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)
Research Interests
Chinese phonology,Historical linguistics,Tones in poetic prosody,Chinese as a foreign language teachingTeaching Interests
Chinese language teaching,Chinese linguistics and culture
David Stahl
Professor, Japanese Program Coordinator
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies
Research Interests
- Modern Japanese literature and cinema
- Asia Pacific War experience, memory, history and artistic representation
- Psychoanalytic and trauma studies
- Marxist cultural studies and critical narrative studies
- Literary and filmic criticism
- Japanese-English literary translation
Teaching Interests
- Modern Japanese literature and cinema
- Artistic representations of Asia Pacific War memory and experience
- Unresolved issues from modern was in Asia
- Social trauma and its psychosocial aftereffects/afterlives
- Dissociation, narrative memory and recovery
Research Interests
- Immigration and Migration
- Humanities for Justice
- Digital Storytelling
- Digital Pathways to Community
- Community Engagement
- Afro Asian Connections
- Asian American Literature and Culture
- Asians of the Americas
Hong Zhang
hzhang@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Language and music
- Language pedagogy
- Vocal pedagogy
- Chinese music and culture
- Chinese calligraphy
Teaching Interests
- Cultural Chinese
- Business Chinese
- Compositional Chinese
- Chinese through song
- Li Bai and Du Fu
- Confucius' Analects
- East Asian calligraphy
- Singing Tang poetry