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Asian Languages and Literatures

Department of Asian Languages and Literatures

  • ALCM Graduate Program Now Accepting Applications

    Our Ph.D. in Asian Literatures, Cultures and Media (ALCM) offers training in Asian texts, film, and critical theory. Our faculty include scholars in various disciplines across the Humanities. In this program, students pursue extensive coursework in a particular Asian literary or cultural tradition (including emergent, non-canonical cultural forms) while addressing political, theoretical, and methodological concerns. We are open to comparative work as well as new questions concerning discursive constructions of Asia. Faculty interests include poetic and theatrical traditions, film studies, feminist thought and postcolonial theory.

    Languages of Concentration: Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, Japanese, Korean

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Asian Languages and Literatures is a dynamic and innovative department committed to the study of the languages and cultural phenomena of East, South, and Southeast Asia. The program encourages breadth of perspective and rigorous engagement with specific materials. General theoretical issues inform all areas and topics researched or taught in the department.

Language Programs

Language learning is of vital importance to successful research in the Asian world. Our teaching staff explores and implements new methodologies in second-language acquisition at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Currently, we offer Arabic, Chinese, Hindi and Urdu, Hmong, Japanese, and Korean.

Programs

The undergraduate and graduate programs incorporate the best of traditional models of area studies as well as challenge these by encouraging comparative approaches and perspectives. Our undergraduate major requires students to attain advanced language skills, high levels of cultural literacy, and methodological sophistication. The PhD program in Asian Literatures, Cultures, and Media (ALCM) is designed to advance the fields of Asian studies and the humanities in general. See the specific areas covered in the program.

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