MCLC: PSU dual-title doctoral program

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Andrea Bachner <abachner at psu.edu>
Subject: PSU dual-title doctoral program
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Dual-title Ph.D. program in Asian Studies AND Chinese History, Comparative

Literature, Applied Linguistics, or Political Science at The Pennsylvania
State University

The Departments of History, Comparative Literature, Applied Linguistics,
And Political Science at the Pennsylvania State University are accepting
applications for their dual-title Ph.D. program with Asian Studies
(started in 2010). The Asian Studies dual-title degree program is an
innovative step towards uniting Penn State's new commitment to Asian
Studies with its traditional disciplinary strengths in History,
Comparative Literature, Applied Linguistics and Political Science. The
Asia-related strengths and fields of study in each of the partner
disciplines with Asian Studies are as follows:

1. The History Department is currently training specialists in early
modern or modern Chinese history. It has faculty strengths in pre-modern
Chinese history and intellectual history, the history of ethnicity and
borderland regions, modern social and cultural history, and Christian
missions to China.

2. The Comparative Literature Department is currently training intra-Asian
And East-West comparatists using Chinese or Japanese. It has faculty
strengths in modernism, transnational and diasporic literature, Sinophone
studies, new media, book history, and post-colonial and gender studies.

3. The Applied Linguistics Department is currently training specialists in
language teaching and research. It has faculty strengths in cognitive
linguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, linguistic
anthropology, pragmatics, and corpus linguistics.

4. The Political Science Department is currently training specialists in
Comparative Politics and International Relations. It has faculty strengths
in democratization, comparative political economy, international political
economy, and conflict studies.

The graduate faculty in Asian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University
include:

HISTORY
David Atwill (History/Late Imperial and Modern China)
Kathlene Baldanza (History/Early Modern China and Vietnam)
Erica Brindley (History/Early China, Early Vietnam)
Kumkum Chatterjee (History/Mughal South Asia)
Ronnie Hsia (History/Europe and China)
Kate Merkel-Hess (History/ Modern China)
On-cho Ng (History/Late Imperial China)
Greg Smits (History/Early Modern Japan)

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Jonathan Abel (primary Asian language of comparison: Japanese)
Andrea Bachner (primary Asian language of comparison: Chinese)
Charlotte Eubanks (primary Asian language of comparison: Japanese)
Eric Hayot (primary Asian language of comparison: Chinese)
Shuang Shen (primary Asian language of comparison: Chinese)
Reiko Tachibana (primary Asian language of comparison: Japanese)

APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Susan Strauss (Japanese, Korean, Persian)
Ning Yu (Chinese)
Xiaofei Lu (Chinese)

POLITICAL SCIENCE
Vineeta Yadav (China and India)
Boliang Zhu (China)
Gretchen Casper (Southeast Asia)

OTHER ASIANISTS:
Tina Chen (English/Asian American)
Madhuri Desai (Art History/South Asian Architecture)
Sumita Raghuram (Labor Studies/South Asia)
Bee-yan Roberts (Economics/Asia)
Gonzalo Rubio (Classics/Ancient Near East)
Xiaoye You (English/China, Rhetoric)

For further information about the dual-title Ph.D. program in Asian
Studies at Penn State, with links to each of its partner disciplines,
please see

http://asian.la.psu.edu/graduate.shtml

The deadline for applications depends on the department to which one is
applying. Further inquiries about the program may be directed to Erica
Brindley, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Asian
Studies, efb12 at psu.edu.

Andrea Bachner
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802