Faculty/Staff
James E. Auer
Research Professor of Management of Technology at the Vanderbilt School
of Engineering
Director, Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation
His research interests are U.S.<ETH>Japan security, and political,
economic and defense-related technology relations. Office: 163 Peabody
Phone: (615) 343-6980, 343-6982
E-mail: james.e.auer@vanderbilt.edu
Peter Brush
Librarian, EAS Bibliographer
Office: 804 General Library
Phone: (615) 343-4838
E-mail: peter.brush@vanderbilt.edu
Gerald Figal
Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies Program
Office: 241 Buttrick Hall
My Web Page
Phone: (615) 322-4712
E-mail: gerald.figal@vanderbilt.edu
Professor Figal's course web sites.
Yinghui Guo
Lecturer in Chinese
Office: 251 Buttrick Hall
Phone: 343-4021
E-Mail: guoyinghui828@gmail.com
Yoshikuni Igarashi
Associate Professor of History
Asian Studies Program
Office: 242 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 322-3334
E-mail: yoshikuni.igarashi@vanderbilt.edu
Professor Igarashi's course web site.
Jinah Kim
Assistant Professor of History of Art
Office: 210 Fine Art Building
Phone: (615) 322-3657
E-mail: jinah.kim@vanderbilt.edu
Richard King
Professor of Religious Studies
Professor of Religion and Culture in the Divinity School
Senior Research Fellow in the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture
Office: 307 Garland Hall
Phone: (615) 322-6368
E-mail: richard.king@vanderbilt.edu
Ling Hon Lam
Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature
He received his Ph.D. degree in Chinese literature at the University of
Chicago. His dissertation, "Emotional In-Difference: Exploring Exteriority
in Late Imperial Chinese Drama and Fiction," is about the performativity
of emotion and the material process of constructing the interiority at
the intersection of various media. His research and teaching interests
include Ming-Qing drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history
of sentiments, nineteenth- and twentieth-century media culture, and critical
theories. His recent publications include "Cannibalizing the Heart:
The Politics of Allegory in The Journey to the West" (included in
Literature, Religion, and East/West Comparison) and "The Matriarch's
Private Ears: Performance, Reading, Censorship, and the Fabrication of
Interiority in The Story of the Stone " (HJAS 65.2).
Office: Buttrick 252
Phone: 322-2616
E-mail: ling.hon.lam@vanderbilt.edu
Linda Leaming
Administrative Assistant
Office: 230 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 322-7329
E-mail: linda.leaming@vanderbilt.edu
Jing Liu
Lecturer in Chinese
Office: 253 Buttrick
Phone: (615) 343-7823
E-Mail: jing.liu@vanderbilt.edu
Xianmin Liu
Senior Lecturer in Chinese; Chinese Language Program Coordinator
Her interests are in semantic, pragmatic, and functional analyses and explanation
of Chinese language; language pedagogy; and Chinese culture.
Office: 254 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 343-7824
E-mail: xianmin.liu@vanderbilt.edu
Peter Lorge
Senior Lecturer in History
Office: 218 Benson Hall
Phone: (615) 322-3707
E-mail: peter.lorge@vanderbilt.edu
Tracy Miller
Associate Professor of History of Art
Office: 210 Fine Arts Building
Phone: (615) 322-0214
E-mail: tracy.g.miller@vanderbilt.edu
Keiko Rose Nakajima
Senior Lecturer in Japanese; Japanese Language Program Coordinator
She specializes in TESOL and second language acquisition. Her interests
are in pragmatics and cross-cultural communication.
Office: 256 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 322-2027
E-mail: kei
Ruth Rogaski
Associate Professor of History and Director, Asian Studies Program
Office: 223 Benson Hall
Phone: (615) 322-4740
E-mail: ruth.rogaski@vanderbilt.edu
Samira Sheikh
Assistant Professor of History D. Phil., Oxford, 2004 South Asian history, with emphasis on western India; social and political history.
Telephone: 615-322-4740
Email: samira.sheikh@vanderbilt.edu
Office Hours: M,W 10:00-11:00 am, by appointment
Office: 223 Benson Hall
Ben Tran
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Ben Tran received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. His
dissertation, The Politics of Vietnamese Romanticism, examines the emergence
of modern Vietnamese literary culture during the French colonial period.
His research and teaching interests include the literature and culture
of Southeast Asia, postcolonial studies, comparative modernities, and
novel theory.
Office: 7919 Stevensen Center
Phone: (615) 343-8540
E-Mail: ben.tran@vanderbilt.edu
Yuh-Fen Shu
Library Assistant for Asian Studies
Office: 408 General Library
Phone: (615) 343-2091
E-mail: yuh-fen.shu@vanderbilt.edu
Ayaka Sogabe
Lecturer in Japanese
Office: 255 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 343-4012
E-mail: ayaka.sogabe@vanderbilt.edu
Qing Wei
Lecturer in Chinese
Office: 253 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 343-7823
E-mail: qing.wei@vanderbilt.edu