The Summer 2022 Time Schedule is live! Registration began on April 11, 2022. This summer's planned offerings include an exciting new course "Practical Korean Through Korean Dramas."
Asian L&L offers intensive Asian language courses in select Asian… Read more
The department recently welcomed Dr. Yen Kim Nguyen as Assistant Teaching Professor of Vietnamese. Yen started her career as a lecturer of Vietnamese language and culture for foreigners in 2006 at the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Language, Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University (VNU). From 2011 to 2013, she served as a Visiting Lecturer in Vietnamese language and culture at the Faculty of Southeast Asian Languages, College of Foreign Languages,… Read more
In December, the department welcomed Nazry Bahrawi as Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Literature and Culture. His current scholarship examines the intersections between animal fables and racial discourses in Malay-Indonesian literary texts and films. He has published on racialism, modernism, literary Islam and translation as cultural rewriting in maritime Southeast Asia in relation to other Indian Ocean cultures. Nazry is an editor-at-large at Wasafiri magazine and the essay &… Read more
Paul Atkins, Professor of Japanese, has been awarded the Kyoko Selden Memorial Translation Prize in Japanese Literature, Thought, and Society by the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University.One of two winners of the competition for 2021, Atkins was awarded the prize based on excerpts from his book-length translation of Shōkenkō 蕉堅稿, a collection of 170 poems in classical Chinese by Zekkai Chūshin 絶海中津 (1336-1405). Zekkai was a medieval Japanese Zen monk, abbot, and accomplished poet… Read more
His knowledge of ancient languages led our department's alum Andrew Glass (PhD, 2006) to a specialized technology job at Microsoft.
Read the profile of Andrew on UW College of Arts & Sciences' Perspectives magazine.
Asian Languages and Literature is proud to announce graduate student John Carlyle has won the Graduate School Distinguished Thesis Award in the Humanities category. This award recognizes exceptional research and writing produced by UW master’s students in any discipline. The 2021 competition for the award included the categories of Biological Sciences; Humanities and Fine Arts; Social Sciences; and Mathematics Physical Sciences and Engineering.
His thesis entitled, “Common… Read more
Upcoming Events
Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture 2022
"Japanese Propaganda and the Power of Love: Mobilizing the Wartime Empire"
Professor Sharalyn Orbaugh, The University of British Columbia
Monday, May 9, 2022 - Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room (Kane 225) - Registration required
2022 Asian Languages and Literature Convocation and Awards Ceremony
Friday, June 10, 2022, 3:30 – 6 p.m., Kane Hall, by Invitation