People
The faculty listing for the Department of Asian, East European, and German Studies is below. Please click their name to be taken to a description of the nature of their work, research areas, teaching, and more.
Full Time Faculty
Noriko Fujioka-Ito
Professor-Educator and Director of Japanese Language and Culture Program , Asian, East European, and German Studies
4211 CLIFTCT
Todd Herzog
Professor in the School of Communication, Film, and Media Studies and the Department of Asian, East European, and German Studies. Director of the Niehoff Center for Film and Media Studies and the Digital Media Collaborative., Asian, East European, and German Studies
732 Old Chemistry Building
Mikiko Hirayama
Associate Professor of Japanese Art History, Asian, East European, and German Studies
728F Old Chemistry Building
Her research focuses on Japanese art criticism of the early twentieth century. Her recent publications include “Inner Beauty: Kishida Ryūsei (1891-1929)’s Theory of Realism.” Edited by Minh Nguyen. New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics: Philosophy, Politics, Culture, Literature, and the Arts. Lanham, MD: Lexington Press, 2017, “Ishii Hakutei and the Journal Hōsun.” Edited by Chris Uhlenbeck, Amy Riegle Newland, and Maureen de Vries. Waves of Renewal: Modern Japanese Prints, 1900-1960. Leiden: Hotei Publishing, 2015, “‘Fictionalized Truth’: Realism as the Vehicle for War Painting” in Art and War in Japan and Its Empire, 1931-1960 (2012), “From Art without Borders to Art for the Nation: Japanist (Nihonshugi) Painting by Dokuritsu Bijutsu Kyōkai during the 1930s” in Monumenta Nipponica (2010), and Reflecting Truth: Japanese Photography in the Nineteenth Century (co-editor, 2005).
She has delivered papers at venues such as the College Art Association conference, Association for Asian Studies conference, and Asian Studies Conference Japan. Hirayama's service to the field included serving as an anonymous reviewer for Art Bulletin and Ars Orientalis.
Gergana Ivanova
Japanese Literature and Culture, Asian, East European, and German Studies
Ivanova's recent publications explore the role of Japanese "classics" in manga (https://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL). She is also completing a co-translation of One Hundred Exemplary Women, One Poem Each (Retsujo hyakunin isshu, 1847 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/hundred/items/1.0055346). Her current book project centers on the eroticization of tenth- and eleventh-century women writers in early modern Japan.
Ivanova teaches courses in Japanese literary and visual culture.
Jade Yuh-Hwan Lin
Adjunct Instructor, Asian, East European, and German Studies
726A Old Chemistry Building
Junko Markovich
Assistant Professor - Adjunct Ann, Asian, East European, and German Studies
726C Old Chemistry Building
Dinshaw Mistry
Professor, International Affairs & Asian Studies
Head, Department of Asian, East European, and German Studies,
Asian, East European, and German Studies
728B Old Chemistry Building
He specializes in international relations, security studies, Asian security, and technology and politics. Within these fields, his research covers two main areas: nuclear and missile proliferation, and South Asian security and US foreign policy in the region.
Dr. Mistry is author of two major books and co-author / editor of a third. The first, Containing Missile Proliferation, is a comprehensive study of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) and its impact on 14 missile programs; it also analyzes the supply-side approach to nonproliferation. The second, The US-India Nuclear Agreement, offers the most detailed analysis of nuclear negotiations with India; it highlights the impact of domestic politics on nuclear diplomacy. The third is an edited volume, Enduring and Emerging Issues in South Asian Security, where he authored the leading chapters on US foreign policy interests in South Asia, ranging from strategic issues to democracy and development, and regional challenges in these areas.
His additional writings appear in journals such as International Security, Security Studies, Asian Survey, Political Science Quarterly, Asian Security, and Arms Control Today, and in the International Herald Tribune, New York Times, and Washington Post.
His current research projects examine regional nuclear issues and the global arms control regime; the new dimensions of missile proliferation and missile defense; and US foreign policy in South Asia and its implications for Asian security.
Tanja U Nusser
Professor of German Studies & Director of Graduate Studies; Department of Asian, East European, and German Studies, Asian, East European, and German Studies
742 Old Chemistry Building
She is author of a book on the German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger (2001) and one on artificial reproductions in literature and film (2011). She is co-editor of the book series Szenen / Schnittstellen (Fink Verlag, Germany) and co-edited volumes on the Berlin Republic. Reflections on / of German Unification (1990-2015) (2019), Kathrin Röggla (2017), Catastrophe and Catharsis: Perspective on Disaster and Redemption in German Culture and Beyond (2015), Engineering Life. Narrationen vom Menschen in Biomedizin, Kultur und Literatur (2008), Askese. Geschlecht und Geschichte der Selbstdisziplinierung (2005), Rasterfahndungen. Darstellungstechniken – Normierungsverfahren – Wahrnehmungskonstitution (2003), Techniken der Reproduktion. Medien – Leben – Diskurse (2002) and Krankheit und Geschlecht: Diskursive Affären zwischen Literatur und Medizin (2002).
Peter Rehberg
Assoc Professor - Visiting, Asian, East European, and German Studies
741 Old Chemistry Building
Landon Reitz
Asst Professor - Visiting, Asian, East European, and German Studies
731 Old Chemistry Building
Randall James Rowe
Assistant Professor - Visiting, Asian, East European, and German Studies
Old Chemistry Building
Evan Torner
Associate Professor of German Studies and Film / Media Studies; Undergraduate Director of German Studies; Director, UC Game Lab, Asian, East European, and German Studies
730 Old Chemistry Building
Adjunct Faculty
Michiko Araki
Adjunct Instructor, Asian, East European, and German Studies
740 Old Chemistry Building
Hung Chun Hu
Instructor - Adj, Asian, East European, and German Studies
Old Chemistry Building
Akiko Marui
Instructor - Adjunct, Asian, East European, and German Studies
740 Old Chemistry Building
Jacob William Somerlot
Instructor - Adj, Asian, East European, and German Studies
Old Chemistry Building
Tomoko Tsuzuki-Deboer
Instructor - Adjunct, Asian, East European, and German Studies
740 Old Chemistry Building
Staff
Elaine M Dunker
Financial Administrator 2, Asian, East European, and German Studies
360D ARTSCI
Cam Kruse
Program Manager, Asian, East European, and German Studies
723 Old Chemistry Building
In his free time, he enjoys cooking, running, traveling, and exploring the depths of foreign language acquisition and teaching.
Jennifer M Lange
Business Administrator, Asian, East European, and German Studies
ARTSCI
Hannah Frances Young
Program Coordinator, Asian, East European, and German Studies
Old Chemistry Building
Graduate Students
Barbara Antonie Besendorfer
Graduate Assistant, Asian, East European, and German Studies
Natalie Marie Ford
Graduate Assistant, Asian, East European, and German Studies
Maya Annette Gulani
Graduate Assistant, Asian, East European, and German Studies
Mareike Lange
Graduate Assistant, Asian, East European, and German Studies
Anna Maria Senuysal
Graduate Assistant, Asian, East European, and German Studies
Broader interests include late 18th to early 19th century German literature, drama theory, movement and migration in the 21st century, and the intersection of (post-)colonialism and ecology, or ecology-as-intersectionality.
Articles:
"Counterarchives, Appropriation and the Disobedient Gaze: Archival Structures in Ursula Biemann’s Contained Mobility and Charles Heller’s & Lorenzo Pezzani’s Death by Rescue", TRANSIT vol. 13, no. 2, University of Berkeley California, 2022.
“‘In totaler Verrükung / constant zu werden’. Verrückung als deterritorialisierende Textstrategie in Peter Weiss’ Hölderlin”. In: Textpraxis. Digitales Journal für Philologie. Graduate School Practices of Literature, 11/2022.
‘This is Africa – Agency, Representation and the Employment of Master Narratives in Edward Zwick's Blood Diamond”, Andererseits. Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies, VOL. 7/8, 2019.
Editions
Forthcoming 2024, co-edited with Teresa Kovacs and Tanja Nusser: The Theatre of Milo Rau: Aesthetics – Ethics – Politics. Fink Verlag.
co-edited with Mareike Lange: focus on German Studies. Special Issue: Spielformen des Authentischen. Vol. 27. University of Cincinnati, 2020.
co-edited with Tanja Nusser and Todd Herzog: 25 Years Berlin Republic. Reflections on/of German Unification (1990-2015), Fink 2019.
co-edited with Mareike Lange and Ellen Chew: focus on German Studies. Vol. 28. University of Cincinnati, 2019.
Kayla Andrea Weiglein
Graduate Assistant, Asian, East European, and German Studies