Graduate Students

Keisha Brown
Email: keishabr@usc.edu
Misun Choe
Email: mchoe@usc.edu
Jesse Drian
Email: drian@usc.edu
Research Area of Interest: Intersections between Buddhism, literature, and material culture in premodern Japan. In particular, ritual and performative practices of reading, writing, and altering texts.
Yunwen Gao
Email: yunwenga@usc.edu
Nathaniel Heneghan
Email: nhenegha@usc.edu
Wooseok Kang
Email: wooseokk@usc.edu
Giang Le
Email: giangle@usc.edu
Research Area of Interest: East Asian comparative syntax
Haiwei Liu
Email: haiweili@usc.edu
Di Luo
Email: dluo@usc.edu
Research Area of Interest: Chinese architecture (with an emphasis on the Song Dynasty architecture), art, cultural history and philosophical thought.
Gladys Mac
Email: gmac@usc.edu
Research Area of Interest: Translation, Asian transnational cinema, Chinese history, Chinese modern literature, Asian pop culture
Won Na
Email: wonkyunn@usc.edu
Kathryn Page-Lippsmeyer
Email: pagelipp@usc.edu
Research Area of Interest: The focus of my research is on gender and genre in modern and contemporary Japanese literature, especially feminist writings in both science fiction and mainstream fiction. I am currently exploring the ways in which a gendered posthuman subject is being constructed in these texts that is not postgender; in particular I am fascinated by the way the hermaphrodite characters in Ohara Mariko, Yumiko Kurahashi and Sayuri Ueda's works display and perform their own bodies to disrupt binary configurations. More recently I have begun to explore the emergence of the body in postwar science fiction magazine artwork, and am analyzing the connections between this visual construction of a genre and the written word that emerged out of it. Additionally I work on fan production and moments of spontaneous collective authorship and new textual production that arise out of the enhanced networking capabilities of the internet, including the production of the popular work Densha Otoko.
Yunji Park
Email: yunjipar@usc.edu
Research Area of Interest: Postwar Korean Popular Culture; Comparative Feminist and Gender Studies; Politics of Cold War Culture in East Asia
Victoria Pinto
Email: vpinto@usc.edu
Research Area of Interest: Shinnyo-en, Japanese Buddhism, New Religious Movements, Sociology of Religion.
Yuyun Wang
Email: yuyunw@usc.edu
Research Area of Interest: Chinese syntax
Chien-Hui Yu
Email: chienhuy@usc.edu
Research Area of Interest: My research interests include Chinese Syntax, second language acquisition, child language acquisition, and Chinese Language & Pedagogy.

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