AAAS Faculty

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Ramaesh Joseph Bhagirat

Assistant Professor

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

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
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Zu-Yan Chen

SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title; Director, Center for Theater Arts Collaboration

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Center for Theater Arts Collaboration

Research Interests

    • Pre-modern Chinese poetry and poetics
    • Confucianism
    • Translation of pre-modern Chinese literature
    • Language and culture pedagogy

Teaching Interests

    • History of Chinese Literature
    • Confucian Ethics
    • Translation of pre-modern Chinese literature
    • Chinese language and culture
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John Cheng

Associate Professor

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research 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
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Sungdai Cho

Director, Center for Korean Studies; Professor, Korean and Linguistics; Professor, Korean and Linguistics; Graduate Director

Center for Korean Studies; The Linguistics Program; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Syntax and Morphology
  • Passive; Causative; Sluicing; Honorifics
  • Language Pedagogy
  • National Standards
  • Assessment

Teaching Interests

  • Structure of Korean
  • Korean Language (All levels)
  • East Asian Linguistics
  • Morphology and Syntax
  • Language, Culture and Society in Korea
  • Pedagogy for East Asian Languages
  • Advanced Korean Linguistics
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Charles A. Goodman

Professor

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Asian Philosophy
  • Ethical Theory
  • Applied Ethics

Teaching Interests

  • Asian Philosophy
  • Ethical Theory
  • Applied Ethics
  • Metaphysics
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Midori Iwamoto

Lecturer

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Language pedagogy

Teaching Interests

  • Multiliteracies
  • Multimodal language learning and teaching
  • Content-based instruction
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Nicholas A. Kaldis

Associate Professor; Director of Chinese Studies; TRIP Courtesy Title

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; 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 Studies

Teaching 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
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Shu-Min T. Kaldis

Lecturer

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Chinese Language Pedagogy
  • Chinese Stamp Carving
  • Bookmaking
  • Chinese Woodcut; Silkscreen; Lithography and Intaglio Printmaking
  • Watercolor Painting
  • Chinese Culinary Arts
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Qifei Kao

Lecturer

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

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
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Sonja M. Kim

Director; Associate Professor, Department Chair

Institute for Asia and Asian Diasporas; 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
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Kyung-Ah Kim

Lecturer

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

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
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Young-il Kim

Lecturer

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Korean Linguistics (Syntax and Morphology)
  • Linguistic Typology
  • Teaching Korean as a Foreign Language
  • Error Analysis and Remedial Teaching

Teaching Interests

  • Korean Linguistics
  • Korean as a Foreign Language
  • Korean through Audiovisual Materials
  • Korean for Academic Purposes
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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
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Eunjin Park

Lecturer

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Teaching Korean as a foreign language
  • Heritage language learning
  • Language socialization
  • Multilingualism and multiculturalism

Teaching Interests

  • Korean as a foreign language
  •  Korean as a heritage language
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Michael J. Pettid

Professor of Korean Studies

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Premodern Korea (history; literature; culture; religions)
  • Korean folklore and shamanism
  • Korean Confucianism
  • Daily life in premodern Korea (diet; housing; clothing; educational institutions; entertainment)
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Chenqing Song

Associate Professor; TRIP Courtesy Title

The Linguistics Program; Department of Asian and Asian American Studies; Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Chinese phonology
  • Historical linguistics
  • Tones in poetic prosody
  • Chinese as a foreign language teaching

Teaching Interests

  • Chinese language teaching
  • Chinese linguistics and culture
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David C. Stahl

Professor, Japanese Program Coordinator

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research Interests

  • Modern Japanese literature and film
  • Unresolved issues from the Asia Pacific War
  • Examination of traumatic Japanese narratives in trauma/PTSD studies terms
  • Ideology, propaganda, master narrative and counter narrative studies
  • Japanese-English literary translation

Teaching Interests

  • Survey courses on modern Japanese literature and Japanese Cinema
  • Artistic representation of Japanese Asia Pacific War experience
  • Unresolved issues from modern Wars in Asia
  • Social trauma and its psychosocial aftereffects
  • Dissociation and recovery
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Lisa T. Yun

Associate Professor

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

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
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Hong Zhang

Senior Instructor

Department of Asian and Asian American Studies

Research 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
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