Humanities Faculty

John Pavel Kehlen has been the Lecturer of Asian Literature at SUA since 2002, and currently serves as Director of the Pacific Basin Research Center; before appointment to the PBRC he served as the Di...

Robert Allinson studied with Charles Hartshorne, heralded by the Encyclopedia Britannica as the leading metaphysician of the twentieth century, who became the co-director of his doctoral dissertation ...

Oleg Gelikman received his Ph.D. in Humanities (Comparative Literature) from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. He is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Soka Universit...

Michael Golden studied music composition in the Pacific Northwest with, among others, William Bergsma, Tomas Svoboda, Diane Thome, and William O. Smith, receiving the DMA from the University of Washin...

Jim Merod points to a series of remarkable teachers who deeply influenced his intellectual career: R. P. Blackmur and Walter Kaufman at Princeton; William Arrowsmith and Harold Bloom at Middlebury Col...

Nalini N. Rao joined the Soka University of America faculty as professor of world art in September 2000. Rao came to SUA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where she taught cou...

Dr. Wilson received her PhD from the University of California, San Diego, in 1999 in Comparative Literature and has since then authored many publications among them Italian Neorealism and Global Cinem...