Graduate Students

Modern Japanese Literature, Meiji Period and the Westernization of Japan, Effects of WWII on Japanese Society, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Premodern Japanese History and Literature; Japanese Language and Linguistics

Korean Identity in Contemporary Media and Popular Culture; Korean Democratization; Modern Korean Literature; East Asian Diasporic Culture

Contemporary Media and Popular Culture in China and Japan; Japanese Film and Animation; Gender Study of Chinese Ethnic Minority Women; Contemporary China-Japan Relations

Shinto and Kagura; Tourism and Cultural Heritage in Japan; Cultural Stewardship

Contemporary Media and Popular Culture in Japan and China; Chinese and Japanese religion and literature; Gender and Queer identity in East Asia

Progressive Degree Program
Japanese Society: Popular Culture, Mental Health and Fashion

Post-WWII Impact on Current Trends in Sino-Japanese Relations; Historical and Geopolitical Conflicts behind “Greater China;” East Asian Language Politics

Contemporary Media and Popular Culture in Japan and Korea, Mixed Media, Music and Entertainment in East Asia

Comparative Analysis of Gender and Sexuality Under Colonialism; Indigenous Identity and Colonial Hegemony In The Pacific

Contemporary Media and Popular Culture in Korea, Religion in China and the Diaspora, Modern Chinese Film

Popular Culture in Japan and China; Modern Japanese Literature and Film; Modern Chinese Literature and Film; Science Fiction in East Asia

Popular Culture in Japan and China; Modern Japanese and Chinese Literature and Film; Science Fiction in East Asia

Progressive Degree Program
Contemporary Media and Popular Culture in Korea and Japan; East Asian Cinema; Korean and Japanese History

Comparative Modernization of China and Japan in the 19th Century; Japanese Drama and Film

Progressive Degree Program
Popular Culture in East Asia; Animation and Game History in Japan; East Asian Languages

EASC Student Feature

East Asian Geopolitics, Japan-U.S. Relations, East Asian Cultural Relations

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EASC Student Feature

Contemporary Media and Popular Culture in Korea; Korean Film and Literature; Korean Identity in Modern Korea

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EASC Student Feature

Contemporary Chinese and Korean Literature; Feminism in East Asia

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Dunhuang Cave Arts; Chinese Folk Customs; Buddhism in East Asia

Migration; Gender and Family; Chinese Popular Culture

East Asian Cinema; Modern Chinese History; Modern Chinese and Japanese Literature

Progressive Degree Program
Popular Culture in Korea, Japan, and China; Modern Japanese Literature and Film; Modern Korean Literature and Film

EASC Student Feature

East Asian Geopolitics; Social Movements in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mainland China; U.S.-China Relations

EASC Student Feature

Chinese Contemporary Art and Film; Gender and Sexuality in China

Modern Japanese and Korean Popular Culture and Media; Global Consumption of Anime; Japan-U.S. Relations

Progressive Degree Program

EASC Student Feature

East Asian Popular Culture and Media Globalization; Unscripted Korean Television; Fandom Studies

EAAS Graduate Certificate 

PhD, Cinema and Media Studies

Postcolonial Theories; Female Agency and Involvement in Colonialism; Korean Contemporary Media; Queer Studies; Theories of Nostalgia and Memory in Popular Culture

EAAS Graduate Certificate

PhD, Cinema and Media Studies

Japanese Popular Culture, Animation Industries, Japanese Foreign Policy, Cultural Geography, Media Globalization, Representations of Environments and Spaces in Animation

Transnational Film/Media, Theory and Poetry; Diasporic Imaginaries in Popular Culture; Queer Chinese Performance and Politics

EASC Student Feature

Modern Chinese Literature; Modern Japanese Literature and Film

EASC Student Feature

Contemporary Media and Popular Culture in Korea and Japan; East Asian Language and Linguistics

LGBTQ Identity in China; Korean and Chinese Popular Culture

EASC Student Feature

East Asian Linguistics; Chinese and Japanese Comparative Literature

EASC Student Feature

Japanese National Cinema and Visual Culture; Representations of Ethnicity and Alterity in Japanese Media, Media Theory and Animation Studies

EASC Student Feature

Chinese Popular Culture; Visual Communication and Media Production in China

EASC Student Feature

Chinese Society and Foreign Policy; Chinese Film and Media Studies

EASC Student Feature
EASC Student Feature

Chinese Social Movements and Reform; Korean Democratization; Korean and Chinese Popular Culture and Contemporary Studies

EASC Student Feature

U.S.-East Asia Media Policy; Feminism and Visual Culture in East Asia

Queer Identity in East Asia, Body Modification and Aesthetics, Korean Media and Culture

Contemporary Chinese Culture and History; U.S.-China/East Asia Relations

Economic and Political Development of North and South Korea; East Asia-U.S. Security and Geopolitics

Pre-modern Chinese History

Chinese Theater and History, East Asian Art History, Contemporary Chinese Theater

Sino-U.S. Relations; China’s Economic Development; International Trade and International Communication 

East Asian Contemporary Film Theory, Chinese Cinema, Film and Culture

Poverty, Feminism and Equal Rights in Modern China; U.S.-China Relations

Modern and Contemporary Chinese History; Modernization and Globalization

Online Marketing Manager at MentorX, Irvine

Associate, DCM and Sustainable Bonds at Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore

Registration Assistant at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist at Marina Counseling Center; Communications and Admissions Director at Institute of Buddhist Studies, San Francisco

Asia Pacific Leadership (G20) Fellow at East-West Center, Honolulu

Foreign Language Instructor at Ritsumeikan Uji Junior and Senior High School, Japan

English Editor at Pixelogic Media, Burbank 

Editor at China Daily, Beijing

PhD Student at EALC, University of Southern California

PhD Student at the University of Texas at Austin

English Copywriter at Solomon AI and 3D Vision, Taiwan

Assistant Front End Manager at Weis Markets, Pennsylvania

Sales Associate at Tory Burch, Los Angeles

Special Education Teacher at Altus Schools, Chula Vista

Executive Assistant at The Grand Mansion, Nanjing

Development and Strategic Communications Consultant at International Budget Partnership, Washington DC