Faculty
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Brian Bernards, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-3706 | bernards@usc.edu Research Specialities: modern Chinese and Southeast Asian literature and cinema, Sinophone studies, postcolonial studies |
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David Bialock, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-3716 | bialock@usc.edu Research Specialities: Medieval Japanese literature, classical Japanese poetry, literature and the environment, ecocriticism |
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Bettine Birge, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and History (213) 740-6660 | birge@usc.edu Research Specialities: premodern Chinese history, gender, law, ethnicity, Inner Asia |
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Dominic Cheung, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature (213) 740-3708 | dcheung@usc.edu Research Specialities: modern and classical Chinese literature, Chinese cultural studies and art |
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Youngmin Choe, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 821-4807 | youngmij@usc.edu |
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G. Clinton Godart, Assistant Professor of History, Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-1657 | godart@usc.edu Research Specialities: Modern Japanese History, Intellectual History of Japan, History of Science, Buddhism in Modern Japan |
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George Hayden, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-3714 | ghayden@usc.edu Research Specialities: premodern Chinese literature, text and music of classical drama, history of Chinese language |
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Hajime Hoji, Associate Professor of Linguistics and East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-3882 | hoji@usc.edu Research Specialities: Language faculty science as an exact science, hypothesis testing and methodology in generative grammar, philosophy of science and generative grammar, Japanese syntax |
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Namkil Kim, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-3712 | nkim@usc.edu Research Specialities: Korean linguistics, Korean language acquisition and pedagogy, and Korean applied linguistics |
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Sonya Lee, Associate Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Religion (213) 821-2582 | sonyasle@usc.edu Research Specialities: Chinese religious art and architecture, visual cultures of the Silk Road |
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Audrey Li, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Linguistics (213) 740-3717 | audreyli@usc.edu Research Specialities: Syntax, Chinese language and linguistics |
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Akira Lippit, Professor of Cinematic Arts, Comparative Literature, and East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-8508 | lippit@usc.edu Research Specialities: History and theory of cinema, Japanese film and culture, experimental film and video, critical and literary theory, visual culture |
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Sunyoung Park, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-8256 | sunyoung.park@usc.edu Research Specialities: Intellectual and cultural history of modern Korea and Japan; contemporary Korean literature and film; Marxism; postcolonial studies; transnational feminism |
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Satoko Shimazaki, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-3709 | satoko.shimazaki@usc.edu Research Specialities: Early modern Japanese theater and literature; print and visual culture; text and performance; gender representations in Kabuki |
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Andrew Simpson, Professor of Linguistics & East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-3640 | andrew.simpson@usc.edu Research Specialities: Comparative syntax of East Asian, Southeast Asian, and South Asian languages: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Hindi, Bengali. |
Adjunct Faculty
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Steven Lee, Adjunct Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures |
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Miya Mizuta, Adjunct Assistant Professor (Teaching) of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Art History (213) 740-3707 | mizuta@usc.edu |
Affiliated Faculty
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Joshua Goldstein, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 821-2603 | jlgoldst@usc.edu Research Specialities: Modern and Contemporary Chinese History; Urban and Environmental Studies; Drama and Performance Studies. |
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Joan Piggott, Gordon L. MacDonald Chair in History and Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 821-5872 | joanrp@usc.edu Research Specialities: premodern historical studies: Japan and East Asia; monarchy, family history, and church-state relations |
Language Faculty
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Wen-Kuang Chang, Master Lecturer (213) 740-3715 | johnwcha@usc.edu Research Specialities: Online language learning with Adobe Flash technology Mobile learning on iPhone / iPad |
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Nansong Huang, Associate Professor (Teaching) of Chinese (213) 740-3713 | nansongh@usc.edu |
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Mayumi Ikeda, Lecturer (213) 740-3709 | imayumi@usc.edu |
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Maki Irie, Lecturer (213) 740-3601 | mirie@usc.edu |
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Hee Ju, Lecturer (213) 740-3707 | heeju@usc.edu |
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Yuka Kumagai, Master Lecturer (213) 740-3704 | kumagai@usc.edu |
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Hsiao-Yun Liao, Lecturer (213) 740-8042 | hsiaolia@usc.edu |
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Yumi Matsumoto, Lecturer (213) 740-3601 | ymatsumo@usc.edu |
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Minnange Qin, Lecturer (213) 740-3707 | minnageq@usc.edu |
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Masako Tamanaha, Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Japanese (213) 740-3704 | mshimabu@usc.edu |
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Tin-Yu Tseng, Lecturer (213) 740-3715 | tinyutse@usc.edu |
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Ping Yang, Lecturer (213) 740-8042 | pingyang@usc.edu |
Emeritus
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Henry Tiee, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures (213) 740-3707 |
- Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- University of Southern California
- Taper Hall 356
- Los Angeles, California 90089-0357
All photos taken by Elissa L., Yulee Kim and Ka Wong
- Phone: (213) 740 - 3707
- Email: ealc@usc.edu










































