ROBERT ASHMORE (Chinese Program)
Robert Ashmore, Associate Professor, received his M.A. in classical Chinese literature from Beijing University in 1992, and continued his graduate studies in the department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University, where he received his Ph. D. in November, 1997. His research focus is on Chinese literature of the third through eleventh centuries, with special interests in lyric poetry and poetic theory, song and musical performance, and traditional concepts of identity and personality. He is currently completing work on a book manuscript on the literary culture of the early ninth century.

MARK CSIKSZENTMIHALYI (Chinese Program)
Mark Csikszentmihalyi, Professor, has an AB in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Harvard) and a Ph.D in Asian Languages (Stanford). He uses both excavated and transmitted texts to reconstruct the religions, philosophies, and cultures of early China. Recent books include Material Virtue: Ethics and the Body in Early China (2004) and Readings in Han Chinese Thought (2006). He is currently translating a set of Song dynasty essays on the Zhuangzi. He is Editor of the Journal of Chinese Religions.

YOKO HASEGAWA (Japanese Program)
Yoko Hasegawa, Professor, received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from UC Berkeley in 1992. She teaches Japanese Linguistics and serves as Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program. Her publications include: Japanese: A Linguistic Introduction (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation (Routledge, 2011), Soliloquy in Japanese and English (John Benjamins, 2010), Nihongo kara mita nihonjin: Shutaisei no gengogaku (with Y. Hirose, Kaitakusha, 2010), Elementary Japanese (with W. Kambara, N. Komatsu, Y. Konno Baker, K. Nonaka, C. Shibahara, M. Tomizuka, K. Yamaguchi, Tuttle, 2005-2006), A Study of Clause Linkage: The Connective -TE in Japanese (CSLI, Stanford University & Kurosio Publishers, 1996). [HOMEPAGE]

H. MACK HORTON (Japanese Program)
H. Mack Horton, Professor, teaches premodern Japanese language and literature. He received his M.A. in 1981 from Harvard University and his Ph.D. in 1989 from University of California, Berkeley. Professor Horton specializes in classical poetry and diary literature, focusing on issues of performativity, cultural context, and poetics. He is the author of Song in an Age of Discord: The Journal of Sôchô and Poetic Life in Late Medieval Japan (Stanford University Press, 2002), its companion volume The Journal of Sôchô (Stanford University Press, 2002), and the forthcoming Traversing the Frontier: The Man'yôshû Account of a Japanese Mission to Silla in 736-37 (Harvard University Asia Center).  He is also the translator of ten books on Japanese literature, history, and architecture.  Chair of the department from 2003-06, Professor Horton received Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2004.

ANDREW F. JONES (Chinese Program)
Andrew F. Jones, Professor and Louis B. Agassiz Chair in Chinese, received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997. Professor Jones teaches modern Chinese literature and media culture. His research interests include music, cinema, and media technology, modern and contemporary fiction, children's literature, and the cultural history of the global 1960s. He is the author of Like a Knife: Ideology and Genre in Contemporary Chinese Popular Music (Cornell East Asia Series, 1992) and Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chinese Jazz Age (Duke University Press, 2001), co-editor of a special issue of positions: east asia cultures critique entitled The Afro-Asian Century, and translator of literary fiction by Yu Hua as well as Eileen Chang's Written on Water  (Columbia University Press, 2005).  His latest books are Developmental Fairy Tales: Evolutionary Thinking and Modern Chinese Culture (Harvard University Press, 2011), and a volume co-edited with Xu Lanjun, 儿童的发现 — 现代中国文学及文化中的儿童问题 [The Discovery of the Child: the Problem of the Child in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture], (Peking University Press, 2011).

D. CUONG O'NEILL (Japanese Program; Head Graduate Advisor)
Associate Professor D. Cuong O'Neill completed his Ph. D. from Yale University in Japanese Literature in 2002. He teaches courses in Meiji print culture and literature, Taishô aesthetics, and postwar intellectual history and popular culture. His research interests include the novel in comparative perspective, global modernisms, and critical theory (particularly in relation to affect and aesthetics). Recent and forthcoming publications include a study of Mori Ôgai and the bildungsroman (Japan Forum, 2006), an analysis of Natsume Sôseki’s theory of tragic pleasure (Discourse, 2008), and a book chapter on the memories of moving bodies in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn (I. B. Tauris, 2009).  He is currently completing a book titled Ghostly Remains: Affect and the Afterlife of Reading in Modern Japan.

ROBERT SHARF (Buddhist Studies)
Professor Robert Sharf received his B.A. (Religious Studies) and M.A. (Chinese Studies) from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. (Buddhist Studies) from the University of Michigan. He taught at McMaster University (1989-95) and the University of Michigan (1995-2003) before joining the Berkeley faculty. He works primarily in the area of medieval Chinese Buddhism (especially Chan), but he also dabbles in Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, and methodological issues in the study of religion. He is author of Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise (2002), co-editor of Living Images: Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context (2001), and is currently working on a book tentatively titled How to Read a Zen Koan. In addition to his appointment in EALC he serves as Director of the Group in Buddhist Studies, Director of Religious Studies, and Chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies.

ALAN TANSMAN (Department Chair)
Professor Alan Tansman earned his A.B. from Columbia University in East Asian Studies, his M.S.J. from the School of Journalism at Columbia,and the M.A., M. Phil, and Ph.D. from Yale University in Japanese literature. His specialization is modern Japanese literature and culture. He is the author of The Writings of Kôda Aya (Yale) and the forthcoming The Culture of of Japanese Fascism (Duke), and The Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism (California). He is now writing a book comparing Japanese and Jewish responses to atrocity, is co-editor of Studies in Modern Japanese Literature and the forthcoming Tokyo as an Idea: Isoda Kôichi's Essays on Literature and Space (California). In addition to literature, Professor Tansman has published on topics including Japanese cultural criticism, popular culture, film, Area Studies, Japanese and Jewish responses to atrocity, and the sublime in Japanese literature. He has also translated Japanese fiction and criticism.

SOPHIE VOLPP (Chinese Program and Comparative Literature)
Sophie Volpp, Associate Professor, received her Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard in 1995. She specializes in Chinese literature of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. Research interests include the history of performance, gender theory, the history of sexuality, and the representation of material culture. Her book Worldly Stage: Theaticality in Seventeenth-Century China (Harvard) concerns the ideological niche occupied by the theater in seventeenth-century China. Her current research examines the depiction of material objects in late-imperial literature, focusing on the relation between the representation of objects and the representation of the self.