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Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
Professor of Iberian and Latin American Cultures, Emerita
BioProfessor Yarbro-Bejarano is interested in Chicana/o cultural studies with an emphasis on gender and queer theory; race and nation; interrogating critical concepts in Chicana/o literature; and representations of race, sexuality and gender in cultural production by Chicanas/os and Latinas/os.
She is the author of Feminism and the Honor Plays of Lope de Vega (1994), The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga (2001), and co-editor of Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation (1991). She has published numerous articles on Chicana/o literature and culture. She teaches Introduction to Chicana/o Studies and a variety of undergraduate courses on literature, art, film/video, theater/performance and everyday cultural practices. Her graduate seminars include topics such as race and nation; interrogating critical concepts in Chicana/o literature; and representations of race, sexuality and gender in cultural production by Chicanas/os and Latinas/os.
Since 1994, Professor Yarbro-Bejarano has been developing "Chicana Art," a digital archive of images focusing on women artists. Professor Yarbro-Bejarano is chair of the Chicana/o Studies Program in Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. -
Ali Yaycioglu
Associate Professor of History
BioAli Yaycioglu is a historian of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey. His research centers on economic, political and legal institutions and practices as well as social and cultural life in southeastern Europe and the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire. He also has a research agenda on how people imagined, represented and recorded property, territory, and nature in early periods. Furthermore, Yaycioglu explores how we can use digital tools to understand, visualize and conceptualize these imaginations, representations and recordings. Yaycioglu’s first book, Partners of the Empire: Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford University Press, 2016) offers a rethinking of the Ottoman Empire within the global context of the revolutionary age in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Currently Dr. Yaycioglu is working on a book project entitled The Ultimate Debt: State, Wealth and Death in the Ottoman Empire, in which he analyzes transformations in property, finance and statehood in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Ali Yaycioglu is the supervisor of a digital history project, Mapping Ottoman Epirus housed in Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis.
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Lee Yearley
Walter Y. Evans-Wentz Professor of Oriental Philosophies, Religions and Ethics
BioLee Yearley works in comparative religious ethics and poetics, focusing on materials from China and the West. He is the author of The Ideas of Newman: Christianity and Human Religiosity and Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage (recently translated into Chinese), as well as numerous journal articles and essays in edited volumes.
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Ludmila Yurina
Lecturer, Music
BioLudmila Yurina is a Ukrainian composer whose work spans a wide range of styles, instruments, and ensembles. She graduated from the Kyiv Music Institute as a pianist and earned her degree in composition from the Kyiv State P. I. Tchaikovsky Conservatory, where she also completed her postgraduate studies.From 1990 to 2025, Yurina served as Associate Professor in the Department of Composition at the National Music Academy of Ukraine, teaching composition, orchestration, symphonic score reading, and contemporary music. Her professional training includes workshops with distinguished European composers such as Helmuth Lachenmann and Wolfgang Rihm.Yurina has been a guest composer and lecturer at leading institutions worldwide, including the Rheinsberg Music Academy, the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Texas Christian University, the City University of New York, and Stanford University. Her music has been performed internationally throughout Europe, North America, and beyond, in collaboration with prominent ensembles and musicians.
Her works are published by Donemus and Furore Verlag, and she is a member of professional organizations including NACUSA and ASCAP. In recognition of her contributions to contemporary music and culture, Ludmila Yurina has received numerous honors, including the Lysenko National Award, the Kosenko Award, the Lyatoshynsky National Award, and Fulbright Scholarships.
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Yiqun Zhou
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Classics
BioResearch Areas:
- The Chinese family
- Comparative study of antiquity
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Steven Zipperstein
The Daniel E. Koshland Professor of Jewish Culture and History
BioSteven J. Zipperstein is the Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University. He has also taught at universities in Russia, Poland, France, and Israel; for six years, he taught at Oxford University. For sixteen years he was Director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford.
He is the author and editor of nine books including The Jews of Odessa: A Cultural History (1986, winner of the Smilen Prize for the Outstanding book in Jewish history); Elusive Prophet: Ahad Ha’am and the Origins of Zionism (1993, winner of the National Jewish Book Award); Imagining Russian Jewry (1999); and Rosenfeld’s Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing (2008, shortlisted for the National Jewish Book Award in Biography, Autobiography and Memoir). His work has been translated into Russian, Hebrew, and French. His most recent book, Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History, published by Liveright/WW Norton, (2018 ) was shortlisted as the best non-fiction book of the year by the Mark Lytton Prize, named as a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and a Book of the Year by "The Economist, "Ha-Aretz" and "Mosaic Magazine. Widely reviewed, Pogrom inspired the 2019 novel The Adventures of the Peculiar Protocols by Nicolas Meyer, and several plays now in production. He is currently at work on a biography of Philip Roth for Yale's Jewish Lives. Zipperstein’s articles have appeared in The New York Times Sunday Book Review, the Washington Post, The New Republic, the Jewish Review of Books, Chronicle of Higher Education and elsewhere.
Zipperstein has served as editor of the journal Jewish Social Studies for twenty years, and the book series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture for a quarter of a century. Currently, together with Anita Shapira, he is series editor of the award-winning Yale University Press/Leon Black Foundation Jewish Lives series which has, to date, published nearly sixty books. Zipperstein is the immediate past Chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History. His PhD students now teach at dozens of universities here, and abroad, including the University of Chicago, UCLA, Queens College, CUNY, Yeshiva College, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Northwestern, University of Florida, Gainsville, and elsewhere.
Zipperstein's contributions to the field have been recognized by the Leviant Prize of the Modern Language Association, the Judah Magnes Gold Medal of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, and the Koret Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the American Jewish community. He has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Yitzhak Rabin Institute in Tel Aviv, and has twice been a Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Sciences Sociales. In spring 2014, he was the first Jacob Kronhill Scholar at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, in New York.
In 2022, he won the Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Excellence in Graduate Education. In 2023, Zipperstein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. -
Emily Yu Zong
Visiting Scholar, East Asian Languages and Cultures
BioEmily Yu Zong (cited name: Zong, Emily Yu) works across environmental humanities, critical migration studies, and posthumanist theory to examine how migrant and diasporic cultural imaginations reshape understandings of climate change and planetary social thought. Drawing on both scholarly analysis and creative practice, she engages how literature, film, and new media technologies contribute to collaborative survival with the more-than-human earth.
Her work is informed by lived experience across Australia, China, and Hong Kong and attends to the crossovers and tensions between colonial powers, Indigenous knowledges, and migrant placemaking. Across these contexts, she develops a research agenda centered on feminist, queer, anti-racist, and decolonial thought and the expansion of migrant cosmopolitics and hybrid ecologies as pathways to multispecies flourishing.
She is the author of Planetarity from Below: Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration and Diaspora (University of Michigan Press, 2026) and co-editor of a double special issue on Decolonial Asian Diasporic Ecocriticism, forthcoming in Ariel (2026, 57: 3-4). Her work has appeared in journals including Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Journal of Australian Studies, LIT, Journal of Intercultural Studies, as well as the edited volume, The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel.
Alongside her academic research, she develops practice-based projects that bring together environmental storytelling, health humanities, and sensory and immersive media. Her exhibitions and collaborative works include Waterborne 水生 (2022), a climate art exhibition and publication on water and ocean waste; Bovine Calling 喚 / 幻牛 (2023), a virtual reality film and exhibition on free-foaming cows and water buffalo in Hong Kong; Thus, Soil 故土 (2024), an exhibition exploring soil poetics and ecological affect, and Healing Atmospheres (2026), a virtual reality film developed in collaboration with healthcare practitioners that explores sensory environments of care and disability.
She is currently working on two projects: one on the decolonial blue humanities in ocean literature and media, and another on weather and heat imaginations among migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong in the context of climate adaptation. -
Dafna Zur
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Comparative Literature
BioDafna Zur is an Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She teaches courses on Korean literature, cinema, and popular culture. Her book, Figuring Korean Futures: Children’s Literature in Modern Korea (Stanford University Press, 2017), traces the affective investments and coded aspirations made possible by children’s literature in colonial and postcolonial Korea. She is working on a new project on moral education in science and literary youth magazines in postwar North and South Korea. She has published articles on North Korean science fiction, the Korean War in North and South Korean children’s literature, childhood in cinema, and Korean popular culture. Her translations of Korean fiction have appeared in wordwithoutborders.org, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Short Stories, and the Asia Literary Review.
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Pelin Çılgın
Ph.D. Student in East Asian Languages and Cultures, admitted Autumn 2025
Undergrad Mentor, East Asian Languages and CulturesBioPelin Çılgın is a film critic/curator from Istanbul and a PhD researcher at Stanford University. They currently curate films for several international and local NGOs and organizations with a focus on queer, genre, and East Asian works. Their academic research areas include East Asian film and media, the horror genre, film curation, and queer feminist readings. Alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Talents Sarajevo, among others. Voting member of the European Film Academy.
