Stephan N. Kory (byname Steve) teaches courses on Classical Chinese and on ancient and medieval Chinese literature and culture. He holds a PhD in Chinese from Indiana University and an MA in Chinese from the University of Colorado. He was a Visiting Fellow at the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF) at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg from mid-2016 to mid-2017, and has held visiting teaching positions as Adjunct Professor of Chinese at the College of Charleston, Assistant Professor of Chinese at Swarthmore College, Assistant Professor of Religion and Chinese Humanities at Reed College, and Lecturer in Religious Studies at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.

Dr. Kory is also passionate about sustainable tea cultivation in central Taiwan. He resided in Taichung for over half a decade and has long-standing friendships with cultivators and traders in that region. He thoroughly enjoys high mountain oolongs and continues to research the history, culture, and science of Chinese tea.