Faculty and Staff

Richard Salomon
Professor Emeritus Richard Salomon Elected Honorary Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
(April 22, 2024)
Professor Zev Handel delivers the 2024 Washin Kai spring lecture to an audience of more than 200 on April 3.
Washin Kai 2024 Spring Lecture Delivered by Professor Zev Handel
(April 18, 2024)
Prof. Nazry Bahrawi holds a copy of his translated work Singa Pura Pura.
Professor Nazry Bahrawi interviewed for BBC StoryWorks feature
(March 22, 2024)
Professor Chan Lü Receives Grant for Research on Family Bilingualism
(February 27, 2024)
Prof. Bich-Ngoc Turner and her daughter in Seattle.
Professor Bich-Ngoc Turner Publishes Short Story in Vietnamese Journal
(February 8, 2024)
The cover of the Winter 2024 volume of HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Professor Heekyoung Cho Featured in HUMANITIES Magazine
(February 2, 2024)
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Ted Mack Wins Inaugural Scaglione Prize for East Asian Studies from MLA
(December 13, 2023)
Adjunct Prof. Yomi Braester presents his paper "Save the Green Planet as a Response to the Diversification of South Korean Media"
The Origins of the South Korean Film Renaissance Conference
(November 28, 2023)
poster for Missing Women Authors
Missing Women Authors: Songs from the Kishangarh Zenana
(October 31, 2023)
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Korean Cybersecurity Summer Camp Combines Cybersecurity with Korean Language Instruction
(October 5, 2023)
4th Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy
4th Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy
(August 16, 2023)
Nazry Bahrawi
Nazry Bahrawi inaugurates Asian L&L column in Northwest Asian Weekly
(May 26, 2023)
Korean Music Workshop
Korean Music Workshop inspires language learners
(May 1, 2023)
Belle Arkham
New Administrative Assistant Belle Arkham
(May 1, 2023)
Nobuko Horikawa
Paul Atkins and Nobuko Horikawa co-author article in Nature
(May 1, 2023)
Chan and Jieyu on the tennis court
Jieyu Zhou and Chan Lü Featured in CTL's Teaching & Learning Showcase
(April 20, 2023)
Spring Poetry group photo
Asian L&L Celebrates Cherry Blossoms with Poetry
(April 11, 2023)
Nazry Bahrawi
Nazry Bahrawi Featured on the Office of Research Page: "New Faculty at UW Working on Race and Social Justice"
(March 9, 2023)
Cover of Asia Notes 2022 newsletter
Asia Notes 2022
(March 7, 2023)
Jennifer Dubrow
March 10: Jennifer Dubrow talk on "The Prose Poetry of Partition: Saadat Hasan Manto’s Siyah Hashiye (Black Margins) and Formal Experimentation"
(March 6, 2023)
Shusenjo
Event Recap: Miki Dezaki's "Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the 'Comfort Women' Issue"
(February 22, 2023)
Colophon of a Hindi-Urdu manuscript of Ishq-caman
NEH Collaborative Grant for Pauwels, Dhavan, and Ahmad
(December 5, 2022)
Izumi Matsuda-Kiami
Izumi Matsuda-Kiami Wins National Award
(November 14, 2022)
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Chinese Language Flagship Program updates
(September 19, 2022)
Ungsan Kim
Asian L&L Welcomes New Faculty Member Ungsan Kim
(March 24, 2022)
The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
Heekyoung Cho Publishes The Routledge Companion to Korean Literature
(March 23, 2022)
Yen Kim Nguyen
Asian L&L welcomes new faculty member Yen Kim Nguyen
(February 16, 2022)
Nazry Bahrawi
Asian L&L welcomes new faculty member Nazry Bahrawi
(February 16, 2022)
“The Mountain is Empty; A Pinecone Falls,” line from a poem by Wei Yingwu
Paul Atkins Awarded Selden Prize for Translation
(December 7, 2021)
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Alumni Dr. Christopher L. Diamond Launches ANUBhasha Project (अनुभाषा)
(November 2, 2021)
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Asian L&L Seeks Assistant Professor in Korean Literature, Cultural Studies, or Film and Media Studies
(September 7, 2021)
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Asian L&L seeks a part-time Telugu lecturer for Winter and Spring 2022
(August 17, 2021)
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Dianne Harris named dean of UW College of Arts & Sciences
(July 15, 2021)
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Prof. Richard Salomon Named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
(May 3, 2021)
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ArtSci Roundup: Rosmersholm, The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: Dina Danon in Conversation with Devin E. Naar, and More
(April 26, 2021)
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Four UW faculty named to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
(April 26, 2021)
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ArtSci Roundup: Exhibitions at The Henry Art Gallery, From ‘Permit Patty’ to ‘Karen’: Black Rearticulations of Racial Humor, and More
(April 21, 2021)
Flyer explaining the summer intensive Vietnamese class.
Learn a New Language This Summer!
(March 9, 2021)
Izumi Matsuda-Kiami
Izumi Matsuda-Kiami Receives the Leslie Birkland Award
(February 25, 2021)
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ArtSci Roundup: Fermented Face with Candice Lin, After Democracy: A Conversation with Zizi Papacharissi, and More
(February 23, 2021)
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Learn Hindi from the best Universities in the World
(February 23, 2021)
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Translation Studies Hub Colloquium To Feature AL&L Faculty
(January 11, 2021)
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New Titles Recognize Department’s Teaching Faculty
(November 30, 2020)
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UW secures competitive $1 million Luce Foundation grant to advance Southeast Asian research and community engagement
(October 5, 2020)
Sendai after the earthquake, tsunami flooding, and nuclear disaster
Students translate personal testimonies from survivors of the March 3, 2011 triple disaster in Sendai, Japan
(August 21, 2020)
Photo of Chair Zev Handel, teaching in a class.
Letter from the Chair - Fall 2020
(August 19, 2020)
Screenshot of Professor Kaoru Ohta teaching his Japanese class online via Zoom.
The New Normal? Remote Teaching in Asian Languages and Literature
(August 19, 2020)
Professor Handel smiling
Asian L&L Welcomes New Chair, Professor Zev Handel
(August 12, 2020)
Joe Marino standing in front of tree
Professor Joseph Marino interviewed by the South Asia Center
(August 7, 2020)
Cover for Professor Salomon’s "Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhāra: An Introduction with Selected Translations"
Professor Richard G. Salomon Awarded the 2020 Khyentse Foundation Prize for Outstanding Buddhist Translation
(May 29, 2020)