Areum Jeong is an interdisciplinary scholar and educator of Korean and Korean diasporic cinema, literature, popular culture, theatre and performance.

Tanvir Ahmed works on the social, cultural, and intellectual history of Islam with an eye toward critical historiography, social rebellion, and thaumaturgy.

Scholar in linguistics, sociolinguistics, linguistic cultural anthropology, communications, literary critical theory, gender theory, decolonization, and educational psychology.