Faculty

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). His work seeks to understand how the intrinsic, literary dynamics of early modern texts interacted...

I am a scholar of Chinese literature with related research interests in the history of writing, material culture, and pre-modern media studies. My first book, The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China (Columbia UP, 2023)...

Wai-yee Li is the 1879 Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University, where she has taught since 2000. Li’s research spans topics ranging from early Chinese thought and narrative to late imperial Chinese literature and culture. Her recent...

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 History from Princeton University (2000), and studied at Gakushūin University (1996-98) while...

Si Nae Park is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2012. As a scholar of the literature and literary culture of Chosŏn Korea...

After teaching at Colgate University and Cornell University, Xiaofei Tian joined Harvard EALC in 2000. While her main teaching and research area is Chinese literature and cultural history of the Middle Period (first through thirteenth century CE), she has...

David Der-wei Wang holds a joint appointment in Comparative Literature. He is Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Sinica. His research interests include modern and contemporary Chinese...

Matthew Wild works on classical Chinese literature and intellectual history. He is completing a book manuscript titled Sound Learning: Song and the Aesthetics of Evidence in High Qing China , which offers a fresh account of eighteenth-century Chinese...

Tomiko Yoda received her B.A. in Religion from Wesleyan University, M.A. in Oriental Philosophy at Nagoya University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Japanese from Stanford. She previously taught at Duke, Cornell, and Stanford, and is a recipient of fellowships...