Wellesley
College
Asian
Studies Faculty
The Following
Wellesley faculty teach courses and/or have research interests in Asia.
Anthropology
Lauren
Leve, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Peoples and Cultures of South Asia
Art
Heping
Liu, Assistant Professor (Art History)
- Twentieth Century Chinese Art
- Seminar: Chinese Painting
Ching-ming Meng, Instructor (Studio Art)
- Introduction to Chinese Painting
Chinese
Dai Chen, Instructor
- Advanced Beginning Chinese
- Intermediate Chinese
Ann Huss, Assistant Professor
- Beginning Chinese
- Chinese Cinema (in English)
- Century of Tumult: 20th Century Chinese
Literature (in English)
Ruby Lam, Professor and Chair
- Advanced Intermediate Chinese
- Advanced Chinese
- Diverse Cultures of China (in
English)
Jing-heng
Ma, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese
Studies
- Beginning Chinese
- Advanced Readings in 20th Century
Culture
- Advanced Readings in Contemporary
Issues
Sherry
Mou, Assistant Professor
- Advanced Intermediate Chinese
- Chinese Vernacular Literature: Fiction &
Drama 10th to 19th Centuries (in English)
- Classical Chinese
- Women in Chinese Literature (in
English)
Weina Zhao, Instructor
- Beginning Chinese
- Intermediate Chinese
Economics
David
Lindauer, Stanford Calderwood Professor of
Economics
English
Marjorie Sabin, Lorraine C. Wang Professor of
English
- The Emerging Tradition of Indian Fiction in
English
History
C.
Pat Gierch, Assistant Professor
- Chinese Civilizations
- Reform and Revolution in China,
1800-2000
- The City in Modern China
- Seminar. The Chinese Frontier Experience,
1600-1990
Y.
Tak Matsusaka, Associate
Professor
- Japanese Civilization
- The World At War: 1937-1945
- The Origins of Japanese Big Business: A
Comparative Perspective
- Japan's Foreign Relations,
1853-1973
- Japan Before 1840
- Modern Japan 1840-1980
- History 344 Seminar. Japanese
History
- History 351 Seminar. Asian settlement in North
America, 1840 to the Present
Japanese
Miyuki Hatano, Instructor
Yoshimi Maeno, Instructor
Carolyn Morley, Professor and Chair
- Advanced Japanese
- Japan Through Literature & Film (in
English)
- On Being Human: Five Postwar Japanese
Writers
- Seminar: Theaters of Japan
Kazuko Ozawa, Instructor
Eiko Torii-Williams Instructor
- Intermediate Japanese
- Advanced Oral Skills
Eve Zimmerman, Assistant Professor
- Japanese Film: The Restaging of
Culture
- Contemporary Japanese Narrative
- Readings in Contemporary Japanese Social
Sciences
Music
Elise
Yun, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Musics of China, Japan, and Korea
Political Science
Christopher Candland, Assistant
Professor
William
A. Joseph, M. Margaret Ball Professor of
International Relations & Political Science; Co-Director, Chinese
Studies
Katharine H. S. Moon, Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of
Political Science
- State and Society in East Asia
Religion
T. James Kodera, Professor; Co-Director, Japanese Studies
- Buddhist Thought and Practice
- Chinese Thought and Religion
- Japanese Religion and Culture
- Seminar. Zen Buddhism
Louise Marlow, Associate Professor
- Introduction to Asian Religions
- Religions in India
- The Formation of the Islamic Religious
Tradition
- Islam in the Modern World
- The Qur'an
- Seminar. Religion and Identity in Modern South
Asia
Women's
Studies
Durba Ghosh, Teaching Fellow in Women's Studies
- Gender and Empire: Masculinities, Feminisms,
and the Making of Imperial Authority
- Women in South Asia: State, Society, and
Progress in the Colonial and Post-Colonial Periods
Geeta
Patel, Associate Professor
- Gender and Writing in South Asia
- Asian Studies
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- Date Created:
September 25, 2000.
- Last Modified: March 2002
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