East Asian Studies Program
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</ETH>
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 East Asian Studies
Office: 241 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 322-4712
E-mail: gerald.figal@vanderbilt.edu
Professor Figal's course web sites.

Yinghui Guo
Lecturer in Chinese
Office: 255 Buttrick Hall
Phone: 343-4021
E-Mail: guoyinghui828@gmail.com

Yoshikuni Igarashi
Associate Professor of History
Director, East Asian Studies Program
Office: 242 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 322-3334
E-mail: yoshikuni.igarashi@vanderbilt.edu
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 East Asian Studies
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: 322-2527
E-mail: ling.hon.lam@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: keiko.r.nakajima@vanderbilt.edu
Ann Oslin
Administrative Assistant, International Programs
Office: 230 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 322-2527
E-mail: ann.oslin@vanderbilt.edu
Ruth Rogaski
Associate Professor of History
Office: 223 Benson Hall
Phone: (615) 322-4740 E-mail: ruth.rogaski@vanderbilt.edu

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 East 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

For more information, please contact Yoshikuni Igarashi.