East Asian Studies Faculty
Chair
Assistant Professor
Email: nglaura1@grinnell.edu
Laura W. Ng is a historical archaeologist with a research focus on the archaeology of Asian diasporic communities. She conducts archaeological research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese migration, diaspora, race and racism, and the transpacific circulation of people, goods, and...
Associate Professor
Email: chenyuji@grinnell.edu
Dixuan Yujing Chen (religious name: Dixuan Shi), Associate Professor of East Asian Religions at Ƶ, is an ordained Buddhist nun of the Mahayana tradition. She received her PhD in East Asian Religions from the University of Florida in 2017, and an MA in the Philosophy of Religion from...
Professor
Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature
Email: fengjin@grinnell.edu
Jin Feng is Professor of Chinese and Japanese, and Orville and Mary Patterson Routt Professor of Literature at Ƶ. She teaches all levels of Chinese language courses and on Chinese literature and culture. Specific classes include “Chinese Women: Past and Present,” “Modern China through...
Assistant Professor
Email: luoweiwei@grinnell.edu
Weiwei Luo is a legal and economic historian with regional specialization in East Asia (especially China). Her interest in the history of comparative institutions emerged during her training at Washington University School of Law, where she was an Alex Handler Scholar and Law Awards Scholar. After...
Professor
Email: quintero@grinnell.edu
As the Artistic Director of the Taipei-based Riverbed Theatre Company, Craig has written and directed over fifty original image-based performances, including productions in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, China, France, Germany, the United States, and England. He is also a sculptor and installation...
Assistant Professor
Email: seongeun@grinnell.edu
Eun Young Seong is Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of Chinese and Japanese at Ƶ. Her research examines cultural interactions between Koreans and Japanese in the process of decolonization across a range of media, including literature, theater, film, and performance...
Associate Professor
Email: sheaeire@grinnell.edu
Eiren Shea is Associate Professor of Art History at Ƶ, where she offers classes on the arts of pre-modern Asia. Her book, Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange (Routledge, 2020) focuses on textiles and dress of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth and fourteenth...