David Atherton

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

David C. Atherton is a scholar of literature, focusing primarily on Japan’s early modern period (also known as the Edo or Tokugawa period, ca. 1600-1867...

Wilt L. Idema

Professor of Chinese Literature, Emeritus

Wilt L. Idema obtained his BA and MA from Leiden University (The Netherlands). Following continued study and research in Japan and Hong Kong, he returned...

Thomas P. Kelly

Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

I am a scholar of Chinese literature with related research interests in the history of writing, material culture, and pre-...

Wai-yee Li

1879 Professor of Chinese Literature

Wai-yee Li is the 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature at...

Melissa McCormick

Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture
Harvard College Professor
On leave 2023-24

Melissa McCormick earned a dual B.A. in art history and Japanese language and literature from the University of Michigan (1990), her Ph.D. in Japanese Art...

Stephen Owen

James Bryant Conant University Professor, Emeritus

Stephen Owen is a sinologist specializing in premodern literature, lyric poetry, and comparative poetics. Much of his work has focused on the middle...

Si Nae Park

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
On Leave Fall 2023

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David Sena

Preceptor in Literary Chinese

David Sena received his B.A. in Economics and Chinese Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in East Asian...

Xiaofei Tian

Professor of Chinese Literature
On Leave AY 2023-24

After teaching at Colgate University and Cornell University, I joined the Harvard EALC faculty in 2000. My principal...

David Wang

Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature

David Der-wei Wang holds a joint appointment in Comparative Literature. He is Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for...

Matthew Wild

Preceptor in Literary Sinitic

Matthew Wild is a scholar of Chinese literature whose research focuses on classical poetry and poetics, with special...

Tomiko Yoda

Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities
Director of Graduate Studies, 2022-23

Tomiko Yoda received her B.A. in Religion from Wesleyan University, M.A. in Oriental Philosophy at Nagoya University, and her M.A. and...

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