Graduate Students Listing, Department of Asian Studies

Dean Accardi

PhD Candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

Interests

My dissertation research focuses on the relationship between religion and the state in early modern Kashmir, especially how asceticism and bodily discipline contribute to ideas of sanctity, authority, and power. Other interests include religion, history, and gender in South Asia, early modern religious formations, and Hindu-Muslim interactions.

Asiya Alam

PhD Candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

asiya@utexas.edu

Interests

Women's education and reform of familial practices amongst North Indian Muslims in early twentieth century

Bryan Alexander

Master's student, Asian Studies

bryan.jenkins.baloo@gmail.com

Interests

Post-liberation China, micro-history, peasant-state power relations, Chinese public health and social welfare

Emilia Bachrach

PhD Candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

ebachrac@gmail.com

Education

PhD Candidate, University of Texas-Austin; MTS, Harvard Divinity School; BA, Smith College (Religious Studies)

Interests

Religion in South Asia (medieval-contemporary); Hindi and Gujarati devotional literature and expressive traditions; Gender and Performance in South Asia; Reading Practices

Ericka Barnes

Master's student in Asian Studies

Interests

Cultural, linguistic, and social identity of biracial children in Japan, second language acquisition, gender studies in Japan

Ralph Bauer

Master's candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

rabauer2@gmail.com

Interests

comparative Sanskrit and Tamil caṅkam aesthetics, esp. themes of memory and love; poetry and polity in early-medieval South India

Max Bruce

PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

maxbruce@utexas.edu

Interests

Urdu Hindi poetry and literature. Sociolinguistics.

Qingzi Cai

PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages

caiqingzi214@gmail.com

Interests

Modern Chinese literature

Michelle Chen

PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages

ihsiao@utexas.edu

Interests

Modern Chinese literature, film and culture; Sinophone studies

Mung Ting Chung

PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages

mtchung1011@gmail.com

Education

M.phil, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Interests

Hong Kong and Taiwanese literature; Deleuzian theory; Sinophone fictions.

Christian Current

PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

christiancurrent@gmail.com

Interests

History of Indian religion (Vedic period-Medieval India) develop. of yoga philosophy/practice, meditation, body & health. Dissertation: translation and exegesis of several yoga Upanishads.

Dana Delassus

Master's candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

ddelassus@hotmail.com

Interests

Gender and sexuality, contemporary Japanese culture.

Aaron Delgaty

Master's candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

adelgaty@gmail.com

Education

B.A. Asian Studies & Japanese Language, Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI

Interests

medicine, healing and illness, anxiety, religion, natural disaster, East Asia, Japan, China, Tibet

Manomohini Dutta

PhD Candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

manomohini@gmail.com

Interests

Ancient Indian legal traditions of the Dharmaśāstras, with a focus on eastern India. Prior research topics include the Indian Epics

Emily Ernst

Master's student in Asian Studies

eme1392@gmail.com

Interests

Religion and politics in modern South Asia, Islam in modern South Asia, human rights, and environmental sciences.

Robert Gallagher

Master's student in Asian Cultures & Languages

bobvirgie@hotmail.com

Interests

Sanskrit, religious studies

Charlotte Giles

Master's student in Asian Cultures & Languages

charlottegiles88@gmail.com

Interests

Indo-Islamic culture and history, Islamic education (madrasas), gender studies, religious violence

Andrea Gutierrez

Master's student in Asian Cultures & Languages

algutierlorene@yahoo.com

Interests

Sanskrit, foodways in South Asia, material culture, Hindu traditions, yogic traditions

Amy Hyne

Ph.D. Candidate, Asian Cultures and Languages

amyhyne@gmail.com

Interests

Cultural history of ancient and medieval India, Śaiva studies, asceticism, health and illness in South Asia, psychology of religion, and relationships between mental illness and ascetic practice.

Dana Johnson

Master's student in Asian Cultures & Languages

dnjohnson@utexas.edu

Interests

Body, gender, asceticism and health in pre-modern South Asia, particularly in the Buddhist monastic context, but also in traditional Indian medicine.

Michael Jones

PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

theojijo@yahoo.com

Interests

Interaction of religion and agriculture in ancient India, especially in the Sanskrit corpus.

Imran Khan

PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages

khanim@hotmail.com

Interests

Urdu, religion

Peter Knapczyk

PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages

pak@utexas.edu

Interests

Literary, religious, and political impact of the Urdu marsiyah (elegy); Early modern Urdu and Hindi literature; Islam in South Asia

Hillary Langberg

PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages

hlangberg@austin.utexas.edu

Interests

History and development of Indian Buddhism; Interactions between religious traditions in premodern South Asia, formations of religious identity; Sanskrit and Pāḷi texts, Art History (particularly Pāla period sculpture), ritual theory; methods and approach in religious studies.

Tien-Wen Lin

PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages

tienwen@gmail.com

Interests

Korean waves, trans-Asia cultural traffic, nationalism and new media (television and the Internet), the relationship between social media and Taiwanese identity. Flows and movements of cultures; popular or mass media.