Alexander Hsu
Assistant Teaching Professor
4159 Jenkins Nanovic Halls
(574) 631-8093
ahsu@nd.edu
Alexander O. Hsu is an assistant teaching professor of global affairs in the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He is an academic advisor at the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion and also the director of undergraduate studies at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. His research focuses on early Buddhist scriptures in medieval China and employs perspectives from manuscript studies, genre theory, and cultural history in order to examine how the use of texts reflects transformations in religious reading practices. Hsu’s current book project examines why and how medieval Chinese Buddhists used anthologies to “economize” their gigantic scriptural canon.