East Asian Studies

Ann Sherif, Associate Professor, Program Director

Marc Jeremy Blecher, Professor

Bonnie Cheng, Assistant Professor

Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Assistant Professor

James Dobbins, Professor

Suzanne Gay, Professor

Suzy Kim, Visiting Assistant Professor

Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Associate Professor

David E. Kelley, Associate Professor

Satoko Koizumi, Visiting Instructor

Ikuko Kurasawa, Lecturer

Kai Li, Lecturer

Fang Liu, Instructor

Qiusha Ma, Associate Professor

Emer O’Dwyer, Assistant Professor

Wang, Chung-Lan, Visiting Assistant Professor

The East Asian Studies Program is an interdisciplinary program focusing on the region that includes China, Japan, and Korea. The main goals of the program are to provide extensive training in East Asian languages and to introduce students to the societies, cultures, and histories of the region through courses in anthropology, art history, cinema, economics, history, literature, politics and religion. Since language study is an integral part of the East Asian Studies major, interested students are strongly advised to begin language study in their first or second year at Oberlin. This is especially true of students who hope to spend time studying abroad.