Chinese heritage language maintenance and pedagogy
B.A. in English from Northwest University in China, M.A. in English from Emporia State University in Kansas, M.A. in TESOL D.A. in Foreign Language Instruction from Stony Brook University
Mandarin Chinese, second language acquisition methods in teaching Asian languages
Modern Chinese and Sinophone Literature, Cinema, and Culture, Southeast Asian studies, Global Asia, Queer Asia, Diaspora Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Race/Ethnic Studies, World Literature and Cinema, Queer Asia, Intersections of Anglophone and Sinophone Literatures and Cultures of the Chinese Diaspora, Theories of Cultural Translation, Critical Theory, and Film Theory
PhD in Comparative Literature, October 2007, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Master of Arts in Comparative and World Literature, May 2004, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, June 2000 (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan) Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Literature, June 1999 (Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan)
Fall 2013—to Present, Associate Professor (SUNY Stony Brook) Fall 2014––to Fall 2015, Undergraduate Program Director (Cinema & Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature, Women’s & Gender Studies) Fall 2007—to Spring 2013, Assistant Professor (SUNY Stony Brook) Fall 2016––to Present Global Citizenship & World Literature Initiative–Advisor Fall 2016––to Present Media, Art, Culture, and Technology ...
intersections of anthropology and history, specifically in areas relating to politics and law, rural development, social ecology and environmental management, social organization and gender, as well as theoretical and methodological issues in ethnographic research and writing
Ph.D in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University (1994)
Drew University Harvard University Wellesley College
Geographical Areas: Korea, China, Japan, East Asia Thoughts and religions in East Asia and Korea, Confucianism, Daoism, Intellectual History of East Asia, History of Korea
Ph.D. Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul, Korea), 1993
B.A. in English from Beijing Foreign Studies University, Diploma-in-Education from National Institute of Education in Singapore, M.A. in English as a Second Language from University of Arizona Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from UCLA.
BA in family law at Chiba University in Japan PhD in Persian literature at Tehran University in 1971
Philosophy
Associate at the Imperial Iranian Academy of Philosophy, Tehran, 1976-78 Ph.D. in the Persian language and its literature, Tehran University, 1974 B.A. in history, College of Wooster, 1966 Honorary Professor, The School of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Minzu University of China, 2012-2015 Ken’an Rifai Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies, The Institute of Advanced Humanistic Studies, ...
SUNY Distinguished Professor, 2016- Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Asian and Asian-American Studies, Stony Brook University, 2003-16; and Department of Comparative Studies, 1996-2003 Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Comparative Studies, SUNY Stony Brook, full-time 1992-96; half-time 1991-92 Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (half-time), SUNY Stony Br...
Islam, Islamic Classics, and other courses in religious studies
Chinese Linguistics, Teacher Education Chinese Anthropology