People - Faculty

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Nandini Abedin

Lecturer
abedin@uw.edu , 206-543-9170 , M248 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: M T W Th 1:30-2:30 or by appointment
South Asian, Bengali (Bangla), Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

Jameel Ahmad

Lecturer
jameel7@uw.edu , 206-543-4096 , 231 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: TBA
South Asian, Hindi, Urdu, Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Translation , Ghazal History Poetics and Translation

Paul S. Atkins

Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair
patkins@uw.edu , 206-543-4925 , M227 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: T 3:30-4:30
Japanese, Premodern Asian Studies, Drama, Literary Studies, Medieval, Poetry and Poetics , Classical and premodern Japanese language and literature

Davinder Bhowmik

Associate Professor
dbhowmik@uw.edu , 206-543-4699 , M239 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: Th 11:00-1:00
Japanese, 20th Century, 21st Century, Literary Studies , Okinawan fiction

Nyan-Ping Bi

Senior Lecturer
npbi@uw.edu , 206-543-6931 , M229 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00 or by appointment
Chinese, Language Pedagogy

William Boltz

Professor and Department Chair
boltzwm@uw.edu , 206-543-4926 , M250 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: BY APPOINTMENT
Chinese, Historiography, Linguistics, Textual Studies, Writing Systems , Philology, Textual criticism, Manuscript study

Yuqing Cao

Lecturer
ycao@uw.edu , 206-543-8657 , 212 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00 or by appointment
Chinese, Language Pedagogy

Ian Chapman

Lecturer
ichapman@uw.edu , 206-616-8408 , SMI 103-E
Office Hours: Th 11:00-12:00
Chinese

Heekyoung Cho

Assistant Professor
hchohcho@uw.edu , 206-543-6937 , M244 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: BY APPOINTMENT
Korean, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Translation, Global and Transnational Studies , Print Culture, Modern Korean Literature

Collett Cox

Professor
collett@uw.edu , 206-543-4965 , M246 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: TBA
Buddhist Studies, South Asian, Pali and the Prakrits, Sanskrit, Philosophy, Religion , Indian Buddhism, Indian philosophy

Jennifer Dubrow

Assistant Professor
jdubrow@uw.edu , 206-543-4146 , 229 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: W 2:30-4:30
South Asian, Urdu, 19th Century, Literary Studies, Novel/Prose Fiction , Print culture in South Asia

John Christopher (Chris) Hamm

Associate Professor
jcsong@uw.edu , 206-543-4974 , M235 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: M W 11:00-12:00
Literary Studies, Chinese, Film/Cinema , Late Imperial and modern Chinese literature

Zev Handel

Associate Professor
zhandel@u.washington.edu , 206-543-4863 , 245 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: M 1:00-2:00, F 10:00-11:00
Chinese, Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Linguistics, Writing Systems , Historical Phonology, Chinese Dialectology, Tibeto-Berman languages, comparative Sino-Tibetan linguistics, Asian writing systems

Akiko Iwata

Lecturer
iwata3@uw.edu , 206-543-6628 , 244 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: T 10:00-11:00, F 2:00-3:00 or by appointment
Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Justin Jesty

Assistant Professor
jestyj@uw.edu , 206-221-9184 , 018 Smith Hall
Office Hours: T 12:00-1:00 or by appointment
Japanese, Art History, Film/Cinema, Literary Studies, Visual Culture

Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs

Lecturer
dohrs@uw.edu , 206-543-9007 , M212 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: TBA
Southeast Asian, Thai, Language Pedagogy, Music

Soohee Kim

Senior Lecturer
soohee@uw.edu , 206-543-7487 , 239 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: T 2:00-4:00
Korean, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics , Internal reconstruction of the Han Stratum in Korean, Acquisition of stratified lexicon

David R. Knechtges

Professor
knechtge@uw.edu , 206-543-4286 , M245 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: M W 1:30-2:30
Chinese, Premodern Asian Studies, Literary Studies , Han and Six Dynasties literature, fu, Wen xuan, Chinese literary history, classical prose

Tim Lenz

Acting Assistant Professor
tjlenz@uw.edu , 206-616-2113 , ART 339
Office Hours: M 10:30-12:00
Buddhist Studies, South Asian, Sanskrit, Religion , Early Indian Buddhism, Gandhari Buddihism, Narrative in Indian religious traditions

Ted Mack

Associate Professor
tmack@uw.edu , 206-543-4356 , 248 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
Japanese, Critical Theory, Ethnic Studies, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Global and Transnational Studies , Modern Japanese literature

Izumi Matsuda-Kiami

Senior Lecturer
matsuda@uw.edu , 206-543-0066 , M214 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: Th 1:30-2:30 or by appointment
Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Chi Nguyen

Lecturer
chin2@uw.edu , 206-543-4986 , M233 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: M 1:00-3:00 or by appointment
Southeast Asian, Vietnamese, Language Pedagogy

Itsuko Nishikawa

Lecturer
inishi@uw.edu , 206-543-4995 , M225 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: M 10:30-11:30 or by appointment
Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Amy Snyder Ohta

Associate Professor
aohta@uw.edu , 206-543-6315 , M231 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: TBA
Japanese, Applied Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition , Sociolinguistics, Bilingualism

Kaoru Ohta

Senior Lecturer
kaoru@uw.edu , 206-543-6936 , 246 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: M 11:30-12:20
Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics , Syntax, Morphology

Prem Pahlajrai

Lecturer
prem@uw.edu , 205-543-4096 , 231 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: T 8:00-9:00, Th 10:30-11:20 or by appointment
South Asian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Language Pedagogy , Advaita Vedanta

Heidi Pauwels

Professor
hpauwels@uw.edu , 206-543-4235 , 233 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: ON LEAVE
South Asian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Medieval , Medieval and modern Hindi language and literature, Hinduism, Sanskrit language and literature

Richard G. Salomon

Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator
rsalomon@uw.edu , 206-543-8763 , 247 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: TBA
Buddhist Studies, South Asian, Pali and the Prakrits, Sanskrit, History , Epigraphy, ancient Indian history, Gandharan studies

Desiana Pauli Sandjaja

Lecturer
sandjaja@uw.edu , 206-543-9170 , M248 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: T 12:00-1:00 or by appointment
Southeast Asian, Indonesian, Language Pedagogy

Michael C. Shapiro

Professor, Interim Divisional Dean of Humanities
hindimcs@uw.edu , 206-543-4958 , 250 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: BY APPOINTMENT
South Asian, Hindi, Linguistics , Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics

Eunyoung Won

Lecturer
woney@uw.edu , 206-543-4202 , 235 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: T 11:30 - 12:30 or by appointment
Korean, Language Pedagogy

Liping Yu

Senior Lecturer
lyu@uw.edu , 206-685-0394 , 214 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: M 1:00-3:00
Chinese, Language Pedagogy

Anne Yue-Hashimoto

Professor
anneyue@uw.edu , 206-543-4165 , M247 Gowen Hall
Office Hours: F 2:00-3:00
Chinese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics , Dialectology, Grammar, Phonology

Emeritus Faculty

Name Title
Brandauer, Frederick Professor Emeritus of Chinese
Nguyen, Kim Senior Lecturer Emeritus


Adjunct and Affiliate Faculty

Name Title Email / Phone Office
Aldridge, Edith Adjunct Assistant Professor; Assistant Professor of Linguistics aldr@uw.edu
206-685-4845 		A210 PDL, Box 354340
Braester, Yomi Adjunct Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature yomi@uw.edu
206-221-6639 		C504 PDL, Box 354338
Gething, Thomas Affiliate Professor Emeritus; Assistant Vice Provost and Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs gething@uw.edu
206-543-4836 		303 THO, Box 357275
Harrell, Stevan Adjunct Professor; Professor of Anthropology, Curator of Asian Ethnology at the Burke Museum stevehar@uw.edu
206-543-5344 		239 DEN, Box 353100
Knechtges, Taiping Chang Affiliate Assistant Professor taiping@uw.edu
Lien, Y. Edmund Affiliate Assistant Professor, Chinese Literature elien@uw.edu
Novetzke, Christian Adjunct Associate Professor; Associate Professor of South Asia Studies and Comparative Religion novetzke@uw.edu
206-543-6142 		303C THO, Box 353650
Tsutsui, Michio Adjunct Professor; Professor in Human Centered Design & Engineering mtsutsui@uw.edu
206-685-2566 		SIG 209, Box 352315