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AL&L's Professor Ungsan Kim was recently featured in a Northwest Asian Weekly article, "Halloween debate: Are Asian horror films scarier?" Prof.
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Several Asian countries adapted the Chinese writing system—the oldest writing system still in use—for their own languages.
Four faculty from the Department of Asian Languages & Literature have been featured in an article in UW Notebook on "New faculty books: Language instruction, the yoga of power, and more."
New faculty books from the University of Washington include those from Asian languages and literature, applied mathematics and the Jackson School of International Studies. Featured on UW News
To celebrate and honor Dr.
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This past spring, a group of four AL&L faculty offered a series of four workshops to colleagues at Montgomery College in Maryland for instructors of Asian languages. Coordinated by the Center for Applied Linguistics and AL&L's Prof.
This past spring, Professor Heidi Pauwels joined UW Librarians Verletta Kern and Dylan Burns and graduate and undergraduate students to launch the Hindi Song Book, the first installment in an open access Manifold-created journal in collaboration with UW Libraries. The group set out with the simple goal of sharing t
Meet the four graduating students selected by the College of Arts & Sciences as 2025 Graduate Medalists for their accomplishments.  Continue reading on UW College of Arts & Sciences News 
Anselma Prihandita, an instructor in the Department of Asian Languages & Literature graduating this month with a PhD in language and rhetoric from the UW Department of English, has been awarded the prestigious Nebula Award for best novelette for her story titled "Negative Scholarship on
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The College of Arts & Sciences celebrates undergraduate and graduate students from across all four divisions, who are recognized for making the most of their time at the UW.  Featured on 2025 Husky 100