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Among the intellectual foci of our tenure-track faculty are:

• Classical and Premodern Asian Literatures - China: Baxter, Brown, Lin, and Rolston; India: Deshpande, Gomez, and Mandair; Indonesia: Florida; Japan: Ramirez-Christensen and Zwicker; Korea: Ryu; Tibet: Lopez

• Modern Asian Literatures - India: Mandair, and Merrill; Indonesia: Florida; Japan: Ito and Zwicker; Korea: Ryu

• Asian Religions - China: Gomez; India: Deshpande, Gomez, Lopez, and  Mandair; Japan: Auerback; Korea: Auerback; Tibet: Gomez and Lopez

• Asian Linguistics - China: Baxter; India: Deshpande 

• Asian History - China: Brown; Japan: Auerback and Fukuoka; Korea: Auerback; India: Mandair; Indonesia: Florida

• Asian Visual Culture - India: Sloan; Japan: Fukuoka, Nornes; Pakistan: Sloan

• Asian Film - India: Dass; Japan: Nornes

• Asian Cultural Studies - India: Dass, Mandair, Merrill,and Sloan; Indonesia: Florida; Japan: Fukuoka, Ito, Nornes, Ramirez-Christensen, and Zwicker; Korea: Ryu; Pakistan: Sloan; Tibet: Lopez

Among the areal foci of our tenure-track faculty are:

• China
  • Baxter
    • classical and premodern literature
    • linguistics
  • Brown
    • classical and premodern literature
    • history
  • Gomez
    • religion
  • Lin 
    • classical and premodern literature
  • Rolston
    • classical and premodern literature
• India
  • Dass
    • film
    • cultural studies
  • Deshpande
    • classical and premodern literature
    • religion
    • linguistics
  • Gomez
    • classical and premodern literature
    • religion
  • Lopez
    • religion
  • Mandair
    • classical and premodern literature
    • modern literature
    • religion
    • history
    • cultural studies
  • Merrill
    • modern literature
    • cultural studies
  • Sloan
    • visual culture (India & Pakistan)
    • cultural studies (India & Pakistan)
• Indonesia
  • Florida
    • classical and premodern literature
    • modern literature
    • history
    • cultural studies
• Japan
  • Auerback
    • religion
    • history
  • Fukuoka
    • history
    • visual culture
    • cultural studies
  • Ito
    • modern literature
    • cultural studies
  • Nornes
    • film
    • cultural studies
    • visual culture
  • Ramirez-Christensen
    • classical and premodern literature
    • cultural studies
  • Zwicker
    • classical and premodern literature
    • modern literature
    • cultural studies
• Korea
  • Auerback
    • religion
    • history
  • Ryu
    • classical and premodern literature
    • modern literature
    • cultural studies
• Tibet
  • Gomez
    • religion
  • Lopez
    • classical and premodern literature
    • religion
    • cultural studies