People

Alexander Zahlten

Chair, Committee on Regional Studies East Asia
EALC: Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Pronouns: He, Him, His

Research Interests: Film and media in Japan; media ecologies in East Asia.

2 Divinity Ave, 211

azahlten@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 496-1391

Office Hours: Email for appointment

Ryuichi Abe

EALC: Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions

On Leave 2020-21

Research Interests: Buddhism and Japanese history, literature and culture.

2 Divinity Avenue, Room 130B

rabe@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-4305

William P. Alford

Law School: Director, East Asian Legal Studies
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law

Research interests: Chinese law and legal history; legal aspects of international trade and technology transfer.

Austin Hall, Room 309

alford@law.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-4693

David Atherton

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Research interests: Japanese literature and culture, popular fiction and theater; literature of early modern (Edo or Tokugawa) period.

Website: David Atherton EALC Faculty

2 Divinity Avenue, room 229

datherton@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-8374

Hannah Baek

She/her/hers

New York University, B.A. Individualized Study, 2017

Korea: South Korean film and film culture of the 1970s and 1980s; visual and media studies; gender and body; feminist, queer, postcolonial, and affect theories

hbaek@g.harvard.edu

Anthony Barbieri-Low

RSEA Alum (AM 1997)
Professor of Early Chinese History
University of California, Santa Barbara

Since graduating from RSEA in 1997, where I wrote a thesis under Michael Puett on “Wheeled Vehicles in the Chinese Bronze...

Peter K Bol

EALC: Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Research Interests: the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7^th to the 17^th...

Mary C. Brinton

Dept of Sociology: Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology
Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies

Research interests: gender stratification, labor market organization, education, economic sociology, and Japanese society.

William James Hall, Room 580

brinton@wjh.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-5821

Suna Cha

She/her/hers

Georgetown University, B.A. English and Art History, 2021

Korea: modern and contemporary Korean art, film, and visual culture; Japanese colonialism in Korea; women and gender; consumerism and material culture; historical memory and national identity; theory of aesthetics

sunacha@fas.harvard.edu

Yuan Ting Chan

She/her/hers

National University of Singapore, B.A. Chinese Studies, 2020

China: Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film; migration; visual and media studies

yuanting_chan@fas.harvard.edu

Paul Y. Chang

Dept. of Sociology: Associate Professor of Sociology

Research Interests: South Korean social and political change. Social movements, family, Korean studies.

608 William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

paulchang@fas.harvard.edu

p: (617)-495-8769

Chuyi Chen

She/her/hers

Brown University, B.A. Comparative Literature, B.A. Theatre Arts and Performance, 2020

China: Chinese literature, material and performance culture; theatre, mass media and popular culture; study of aesthetics

chuyi_chen@g.harvard.edu

Esse Yao Chen

Tsinghua University, B.A. English Literature and Humanities, 2018.

China/Regional: Retirement finance; pension reform; social and economic policy.

cheny@g.harvard.edu

Jizhou (Jannis) Chen

National University Singapore, B.A., Chinese Studies, 2015

China: Modern and contemporary Sino-German literature and cultural exchange; Chinese diaspora literature in German-speaking...

Yufan Chen

He/him/his

The University of Chicago, B.A. East Asian Languages and Civilizations & Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, 2020

China: Modern and Contemporary Chinese literature and film; Feminist, queer, and affect theories; Representation of rural-urban binary

yufan_chen@g.harvard.edu

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