East Asian Studies Faculty
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 ƽ. 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
I am a historian of China and East Asia. Both my research and teaching interests are rooted in the intersections of law, politics, religion, and economy. My current book project, The Common Good , studies the production of the modern Chinese polity through a new moral economy centered on public...

Assistant Professor
Email: nglaura1@grinnell.edu
Laura W. Ng is a historical archaeologist with a research focus on the archaeology of transpacific migration and Asian diasporic communities. She conducts archaeological research on late nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese migration and the transpacific circulation of people, goods, and...

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
My research focuses on cultural interactions between Japanese and Koreans in the process of decolonization across a wide range of media, including literature, theater, and performance, with a particular interest in the history of Zainichi Koreans—Koreans who migrated to Japan under Japanese colonial...

Associate Professor
Email: sheaeire@grinnell.edu
Eiren Shea is Associate Professor of Art History at ƽ, 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...

Associate Professor
Email: tangqiao@grinnell.edu
Trained a literary scholar, my research and teaching engage a diverse array of literary texts from pre-modern China. I am particularly interested in the relationships between gender and genre, literature and politics, and poetry and painting of medieval China. My first book project, based on my...