Current graduate students
| Name | Supervisor | Research interest |
| Ruyan Wang | Dr. Chau | |
| Apex Tewari | Dr. Lee | |
| Leah Oikawa-Cave | Dr. Lewellan | |
| Alisa Johnson | Dr. Lewellan | |
| Caniapasis Made | Dr. Fox | |
| Aghaniadi | Dr. Fox | |
| Curran Chapman | Dr. Lewallen | Feeling, Justice, and Healing: Centering Survivor Voice in the “Comfort Women” Issue |
| Rongrong Qiao | Dr. Wang | The Linguistic Landscape of 樱花影视’s Chinatown and Its Integration into Chinese as an Additional Language Pedagogy |
| Xi Zhang | Dr. Marton | Gender Construction through the lens of Chinese Folk Culture |
| Tram Anh Chau | Dr. Phuong | Food, Karaoke, oral stories in Vietnamese gathering events in the Capital Regional (BC) |
| Bryce Bartsch | Dr. Lee | Reconfiguring the Past: Space, Memory, and Politics in Taiwan’s Former Shinto Shrines |
| Hina Zelli | Dr. Iles | Uncovering the Theme of Outsider and Community in the Animation Sprited Away (2001): Chihiro as an Allegory of the Outside |
| Sandra Oliver-Mbonu |
Dr. Marton |
Soft Power in Stitches: China's Fashion Projection in Nigeria |
| Delaney Johnson | Dr. Iles | “(Mis)Representing the (Indigenous) Other in Contemporary Japanese Cinema.” |
| Tatiana Popova (PhD INTD) | Dr. Lee, & Carroll | |
| Qichen Zhong (PhD INTD) | Dr. Lin & Grossi | |
Recent Graduates |
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| Iurii Frolov | Dr. Jamkajornkeiat | The Making of the Cambodian People's Party: Patronage, Power, and Politics after the Khmer Rouge |
| Ivan Garcimartin Carmona | Dr. Lee | Engendering Fashion: Gender Performativity, Fashion, and Formal Occasions in Japan |
| Hassan Razavi | Dr. Poulton | "Yoroboshi": a modern noh play by Yukio Mishima |
| Srdjan Renovica |
Dr. Hatakeyama/ Dr. Bodden |
Across time, space and discourse: The elusive nature of visual novels |
| Yiping Zhou | Dr. Chau |
Negotiating a Truth of the Underprivileged through Affect in the Sinophone: |
| Tanya Brittain | Dr. Poulton | “Seals, Script, and Sacred Sites: A Study of Goshuin 御朱印 in Modern Japan” |
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Yucong (Viola) Zhang (PhD) |
Dr. Marton |
“Ecologizing the Chinese Countryside: |
| Maeve Milligan | Dr. Fox | “Street food vendors in Indonesia: Conflicting representations under COVID-19” |
| Tatiana Popova | Dr. Lee | "The Immigration Dilemma:trajectories and challenges of highly skilled migration in Japan" |
| Kaori Maruyama | Dr. Lee | "The Myth of the First Three Years" and the Ideology of Motherhood in Japan. |
| Chenxi Wang | Dr. Iles | Higlighting the Role of Traditional Spirituality in Independent Chinese. Animation: Big Fish and Begonia |
| Xinlyu Tan | Dr. Iles | Song of a Broken World:A Narratological Analysis of NieR:Automata |
| Qichen Zhong | Dr. Lin | "Bai Juyi's (772-846) Poems on Women: A Narratological Approach" |
| Nan Yao | Dr. Chau | Healing Style as Illusion of Comfort?: Two Types of Chinese Healing Style Media." |
| Rongxin Zhang | Dr. Marton |
Addressing Child Welfare Challenges in Rural China: An Assessment of The Child Welfare Director System and Possible Lessons from Japan. |
| Zhuangyuan Wang | Dr.Tian/Dr.Nassaji |
Teaching Chinese Pronunciation in Canadian Universities: An analysis of a textbook and teachers' perspectives. |
| Xuan Duan | Dr. Chau | Remembering in Memoirs:The collective memory and cultural trauma of the Chinese Cultural Revolution in the Red Guard memoirs |
| Yuxuan Cai | Dr. Bailey/ Dr. Chau | Family as a Starting Point: The Kinship-based Female Poetry Clubs Between the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties, 1550-1660 |
| Linyi Yang | Dr. Marton | Women Migrants in China's Meg-Cities |
| Guodong (Gordon)Wang | Dr. Marton | The Transformstion and Upgrading of Marine Industry and Impacts in East China |
| Jerry Flexer | Dr. Adam | Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Skillful Means: A deconstruction of philosophical discourse in the context of time, place, and audience |
| Siyi Cheng | Dr. Marton | Higher Education Internationalization in China |
| Nishang Li | Dr. King | "Rotten Culture" from Japan to China |
| Liying Lily Wang | Dr. King | De-revolutionzing the Red Classics: A Case Study of Track in the Snowy Forest as a Genre from Novel, Drama,Television to Movie |
| Xiaomeng (Ivy) Cheng | Dr. King | How sexual relations in Chinese literature affect women's idenity in contemporary Chinese society |
| Diana Draker | Dr. Poulton | Technology and Interactivity in Modern and Post-Modern Japanese Theatre |
| Kong Yeung Ronald Lai | Dr. Endo | Shinzo Abe’s Version of History and the “Rise of China” |
| Nicholas Chlumecky | Dr. Endo | North Korea, Representation, and Armament: An Investigation into the Politics of Missile Defense |
| Joseph Clark | Dr. Endo | Educational Reform in Japan; Innovation and National Community in Empire |
| Shiya April Zhang | Dr. King | Does time heal?: Cinematic Reconstruction of Historical Trauma in 21st-Century China |
| Jen Chen | Dr. Lin | Roaming Nüxia: Female Knights-errant in Jin Yong’s Fiction |
| N'Donna Russell | Dr. Poulton | Make-Up!: The Mythic Narrative and Transformation as a Mechanism for Personal and Spiritual Growth in Magical Girl (Mahou Shoujo) Anime |
| Yaxi Kathy Luo | Dr. King | Classical Chinese Literature and Poetry in Tang Dynasty |
| Hajime Kataoka | Drs. Poulton/A. D'Arcy | Enhancing Social Media-Based Participation in L2 Communities of Practice |
| Siying Sherry Wang | Dr. Poulton | Aesthetics of Color in Japanese Traditional Painting in the Edo Period |
| Rita Livshits | Dr. Poulton | Does Ishiguro Dream of Electric Sheep? Androids as a Distinctive Emergent Phenomenon in Japan |
| Douglas Stetar | Dr. King | Cities of Fantasy: The Construction of the Desiring Subject in Urban China |
| Madeline Holden | Dr. Morgan | House of Gold: The Politics of Faith, Accessibility and Diplomacy in Navigating Islamic Microfinance (Baitul Maal wat Tamwil) in Surakarta, Indonesia |