People - All

Name

Field of Interest

Jameel Ahmad

Teaching Professor

Office Hours: Monday 11:30am - 12:20pm and by Appointment

GWN M231

Ghazal History Poetics and Translation, Hindi, Language Pedagogy, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, South Asian, Translation and Interpretation, Urdu

Tetiana Andriiuk

PhD Student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

tanitaan@uw.edu

GWN M230

Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Philology, Translation and Interpretation

Paul S. Atkins

Professor
Japanese Program Coordinator

patkins@uw.edu / 206-543-4925

Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays | 5:30pm - 6:00pm, and by appointment

GWN M247

Classical and premodern Japanese language and literature, Drama, Japanese, Literature, Medieval, Poetry and Poetics, Premodern Asian Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Uma Attota

Lecturer

uattota@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays, Fridays 1:00pm - 1:30pm

SMI 016

Dance, Poetry and Poetics, South Asian, Telugu

Nazry Bahrawi

Assistant Professor
Southeast Asian Program Coordinator

nazryb@uw.edu / 206-543-3086

Office Hours: Wednesdays 4:30pm - 5:30pm by appointment only

GWN 239

Animal Studies, Comparative Literature, Decoloniality, Ecocriticism, Folklore and Mythology, Global and Transnational Studies, Global Asias, Indonesian, Literary Islam, Malay and Indonesian literature and film, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity, Southeast Asian, Speculative and Science Fiction

Renee Banks

MA student in Japanese linguistics

rbanks@uw.edu

Comparative Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Japanese, Kanji Philology & Pictography, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Writing Systems

Davinder Bhowmik

Associate Professor
Undergraduate Education Coordinator

dbhowmik@uw.edu / 206-543-4699

Office Hours: Thursdays | 11:00am - 1:00pm

GWN M239

20th Century, 21st Century, Japanese, Literature, Okinawan fiction

Davinder Bhowmik

Associate Professor
Undergraduate Education Coordinator

dbhowmik@uw.edu / 206-543-4699

Office Hours: Thursdays | 11:00am - 1:00pm

GWN M239

20th Century, 21st Century, Japanese, Literature, Okinawan fiction

Jeremy Browning

MA student in Japanese literature

brown1n9@uw.edu

Buddhist Studies, Classical Japanese, Japanese, Literature, Medieval, Nō Theater, Religion, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Ruiming Cash

PhD Student in Chinese

rcash2@uw.edu

Chinese, Intellectual History, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Writing Pedagogy

Humanities Academic Services (HAS) Center

Undergraduate Advisor

has-center@uw.edu

Padelford Hall, Suite A-002

Amruta M. Chandekar

Assistant Teaching Professor

amrutc@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 11:30am - 12:00pm and by appointment

GWN M233

Hindi, Linguistics, Literature, Narrative Theory, Pragmatics, Sanskrit, Semantics, South Asian, Syntax, Textual Studies

Amruta M. Chandekar

Assistant Teaching Professor

amrutc@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday 11:30am - 12:00pm and by appointment

GWN M233

Hindi, Linguistics, Literature, Narrative Theory, Pragmatics, Sanskrit, Semantics, South Asian, Syntax, Textual Studies

Ruikun (Ricky) Chen

PhD student in Japanese literature

rickyrkc@uw.edu

20th Century, 21st Century, Decolonization, East Asian, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Literature, Okinawan Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Postcolonial

Heekyoung Cho

Professor

hchohcho@uw.edu / 206-543-6937

GWN M244

Digital Humanities, East Asian, Global and Transnational Studies, graphic narrative, Korean, New Media, Postcolonial, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Ying-Hsiu Chou

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

chouhsiu@uw.edu

Chinese, East Asian, Feminism, Film/Cinema, Gender, Genre, Literature, Masculinity, Transnational, Visual Arts

Benjamin DeTora

Doctoral Candidate in Japanese literature

bdetora@uw.edu

Burakumin, Film & Media Studies, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Japanese Cinema, Minority Literature, Postwar Japanese literature, Visual Culture

Eli Drake

MA student in Chinese

drakeel3@uw.edu

Chinese, Comparative Literature, Drama, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, History, Literature, Queer Studies

Jennifer Dubrow

Associate Professor

jdubrow@uw.edu / 206-543-4146

Office Hours: Fridays 4:00pm - 5:00pm (on Zoom) and by appointment

GWN M212

19th Century, 20th Century, Aesthetics, aesthetics and politics, arts and technology, Comparative Literature, History of the book in South Asia, Literature, Literature and Other Arts, Modernism, South Asian, Textual Studies, Urdu

Tichomir Dunlop

MA Student in Japanese literature

Andri Fernanda

PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures

aferna5@uw.edu

Collective Memory, Folklore and Mythology, Gender Studies, Indigenous, Indonesian, Oral Tradition, Postmemory Studies, Southeast Asian

Yesenia Flores

Administrative Assistant

asianll@uw.edu / 206-543-4996

Office Hours: MW 8 am - 12 pm; TTh 1 - 5 pm; F Remote

GWN 225

David Fowler

Lecturer

dsfowler@uw.edu

Office Hours: Daily | 9:00am - 9:25am

SMI 016

Sanskrit, South Asian

Sarah Gelvin

MA student in Japanese literature

gelvins@uw.edu

Folklore and Mythology, Japanese, Literature

Vishnupriya Goswami

PhD Student in South Asian Languages and Cultures

vpriyag@uw.edu

Art History, Braj, Devotional Literature, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Heritage Preservation, Hindi, History, Impacts of Globalization in the 21st Century, Performance Studies, Religion, Sanskrit, South Asian, Vaishnavism

John Christopher (Chris) Hamm

Professor
Chinese Program Coordinator

jcsong@uw.edu / 206-543-4974

GWN M245

Chinese, Film/Cinema, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Periodical Studies, Popular Culture, Print Culture, Visual Culture

Zev Handel

Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator

zhandel@uw.edu / 206-543-4996

Office Hours: Wednesdays | 10:00am - 12:00pm

GWN 245

Asian writing systems, Chinese, Chinese Dialectology, Comparative Linguistics, comparative Sino-Tibetan linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Historical Phonology, Linguistics, Tibeto-Berman languages, Writing Systems

Tessa Hansman

MA student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

tessah7@uw.edu

GWN M230

Ainu History & Culture, Dialects in Japanese, Geisha Culture & Its Depiction in Literary/Visual Arts, Heian Period Female Writers, Japanese, Nō Theater

Nielson Hul

Lecturer

nhul@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays 11:30am - 12:30pm

SMI 016

Heritage language learning, Khmer, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Southeast Asian

Tzu-Lu (Lulu) Hung

PhD Student in Japanese literature
PreDoctoral Instructor in Korean Cinema

tzuluh@uw.edu

GWN M224

Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Literary Criticism, Literature, Postcolonial

Akiko Iwata

Associate Teaching Professor

iwata3@uw.edu / 206-543-6628

Office Hours: Fridays 12:00pm - 1:00pm

GWN 246

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Justin Jesty

Associate Professor

jestyj@uw.edu

DEN 343

Art History, Film/Cinema, Japanese, Literature, Visual Culture

Lisa Jiang

MA Student in Japanese literature

lisajsp@uw.edu

Japanese, Japanese Media and Literature

Weilin Kao

MA student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

wkao2@uw.edu

GWN M226

Chinese, Language Pedagogy, Literature

JungHee Kim

Teaching Professor
Summer Sessions Coordinator
Korean Language Coordinator

junghee@uw.edu / 206-543-7487

Office Hours: Mondays | 1:30pm - 2:20pm (In-Person or remote by appointment)

GWN M227

Korean

Junyoung Kim

PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Korean

juny0ung@uw.edu

GWN M224

Film/Cinema, Gender and Sexuality, Korean, Queer Politics and Activism

Ungsan Kim

Assistant Professor

sankim@uw.edu / 206-616-8060

Office Hours: Mondays 3:30pm-04:30pm and by appointment

GWN 231

Asian Cinema, East Asian, Film/Cinema, Genre Films, Korean, Korean Cinema, Media Studies, Queer Studies, Southeast Asian, Visual Culture

Yunee Kim

Lecturer in Korean

yuneek@uw.edu / 206-543-4202

Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:30am - 12:20pm | or by appointment

SMI 020

Japanese, Korean, Language Pedagogy

Momoka Kodama

MA student in Asian Languages and Cultures

Sravanthi Kollu

Assistant Professor
Hanuma and Anuradha Kodavalla Endowed Chair in Telugu

kollu@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 1-2pm

GWN 244

20th Century, 21st Century, Comparative Literature, Hindi, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Romanticism, South Asian, Telugu

Jonathan Laiman

PhD Student in Buddhist Studies

jlaiman@uw.edu

Buddhist Studies, Classical Chinese, Gandhāran Buddhist Literature, Indian Buddhism, Philology, Philosophy, Religion, Sanskrit, South Asian, Textual Studies

Mahnoor Lali

PhD student in South Asian Languages and Literature
PreDoctoral Instructor in Urdu

mlali@uw.edu

GWN M216

Art History, Crafts, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Hindi, Historiography, Material Culture, Postcolonial, South Asian, Textual Studies, Urdu, Visual Culture

Diep Le

Lecturer

dieple@uw.edu

Southeast Asian, Vietnamese

Han (Gloria) Lee

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

ghlee@uw.edu

GWN M226

Chinese, Historical Chinese phonology, Historical Linguistics

Linhe Li

PhD student in Chinese

linheli@uw.edu

Art History, Chinese, Comparative Literature, Literature, Medieval, Poetry and Poetics, Premodern Asian Studies, Silk Road

Xi (Milky) Li

MA Student in Japanese literature

xli32@uw.edu

Chinese, Japanese, Literature, Premodern Asian Studies

Stephanie Liu

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

hungyun@uw.edu

Chinese, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Sociolinguistics

Chan Lü

Professor
Department Chair

chanlu@uw.edu / 206-543-2757

Office Hours: Mondays 11:30am - 1:00pm (students) | Thursdays 11:00am - 1:00pm (faculty)

GWN 225

Bilingualism and Biliteracy, Chinese, Immersion Education, Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Reading

Xi Ma

Assistant Teaching Professor
Chinese Language Coordinator

xima@uw.edu / 206-543-4805

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00pm - 2:00pm or by appointment

GWN 212

Chinese

Ted Mack

Professor

tmack@uw.edu / 206-543-4356

Office Hours: Will be held via Zoom; please email tmack@uw.edu for link.

GWN 248

Critical Theory, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Global and Transnational Studies, Japanese, Modern Japanese literature, Postcolonial, Race and Ethnicity

Jakub Mackowiak

PhD Student in Chinese

Nicholas Malik

MA Student in Japanese literature

nmalik06@uw.edu

GWN M230

Culture, Japanese, Literature, Translation

Joseph A. Marino, III

Cris & Melissa Upton Cyders Professor of Buddhist Studies
Assistant Professor

jamarino@uw.edu / 206-897-1584

GWN M229

Buddhist Studies, Gandhāran Buddhist Literature, Philology, Religion, Sanskrit, South Asian, Translation and Interpretation

Izumi Matsuda-Kiami

Teaching Professor
Associate Chair

matsuda@uw.edu / 206-543-0066

Office Hours: Tuesdays | 1:00pm - 2:00pm | and by appointment

GWN 250

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Hannah Moore

MA student in Japanese literature

hanajoyy@uw.edu

Japanese, Literature, Localization, Sociolinguistics, Translation and Interpretation, Visual Culture

Ha Nguyen

Assistant Teaching Professor

thuha29@uw.edu / 543-4805

Office Hours: Thursdays 1-2 PM and by appointment

SMI 018

Applied Linguistics, Critical Language Pedagogy, Decolonization, discourse analysis, linguistic landscape, Southeast Asian, task-based language teaching, Vietnamese

Itsuko Nishikawa

Teaching Professor
Japanese Language Coordinator

inishi@uw.edu

Office Hours: Th 1-2 and by appointment

GWN M248

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Jordan Niver-Johnson

PhD Student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

jniver@uw.edu

GWN M230

Comparative Literature, Contemporary Japanese Literature, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Localization, Translation

Amy Snyder Ohta

Professor
Korean Program Coordinator

aohta@uw.edu / 206-543-6315

Office Hours: Wednesdays| 11:00am - 12:00pm | by appointment

GWN 247

Applied Linguistics, discourse analysis, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, social media, Sociolinguistics

Heidi Pauwels

Professor
South Asian Program Coordinator

hpauwels@uw.edu / 206-543-4235

Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:00pm - 1:30pm, and by appointment on Zoom

GWN 233

Classical and modern Hindi language and literature, Hindi, Hinduism, Literature and Other Arts, Religion, Sanskrit, Sanskrit language and literature, South Asian

Heidi Pauwels

Professor
South Asian Program Coordinator

hpauwels@uw.edu / 206-543-4235

Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:00pm - 1:30pm, and by appointment on Zoom

GWN 233

Classical and modern Hindi language and literature, Hindi, Hinduism, Literature and Other Arts, Religion, Sanskrit, Sanskrit language and literature, South Asian

Codi Reynolds

PhD student in Japanese literature

ccr10026@uw.edu

Intersection between visual and written arts, Japanese, Japanese Literature, Meiji-era literature

Gian Rominger

Assistant Professor

gromin@uw.edu / 206-212-9375

Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:00pm - 1:00pm

GWN M225

Chinese, Data Science in the Humanities, Digital Humanities, Early Chinese Literary Culture, Early Chinese Literature and History, Intellectual History, Literature, Philology, Premodern Asian Studies, Textual Studies

Desiana Pauli Sandjaja

Teaching Professor
Southeast Asian Language Coordinator

sandjaja@uw.edu / 206-543-9170

Office Hours: Mondays 2:30pm - 3:30pm on Zoom, and by appointment (Zoom)

GWN M250

Indonesian, Language Pedagogy, Southeast Asian

Aidan Seipke

PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

awseipke@uw.edu

GWN M230

Film/Cinema, Hibakusha Experience, Japanese, Modern Literature, Translation and Interpretation, War Literature

Zhifan Sheng

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

zfsheng@uw.edu

Chinese, Chinese Literature, Digital Humanities, Epistolary Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Global and Transnational Studies, Media Studies, Print Culture, Queer Studies, Sinophone Studies

Qinwei (Angelina) Shi

MA Student in Japanese literature

qwshi01@uw.edu

Culture, Japanese, Literature, Popular Culture

Jiwon Song

Doctoral Candidate in Asian Languages and Cultures

jwsong08@uw.edu

Bilingualism, Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Korean, Language acquisition, Linguistics, Writing Systems

Micah Sprouffske

PhD student in Chinese
PreDoctoral Instructor in Chinese

micahsp@uw.edu

GWN M226

Chinese, Diffusion of Writing, Evolution of Writing, Historical Linguistics

Fumiko Takeda

Assistant Teaching Professor

fumikot@uw.edu / 206-616-2113

Office Hours: Wednesdays | 2:00pm - 3:00pm | and by appointment

GWN 229

Japanese

Kiwa Tashiro

Teaching Assistant in Japanese

kiwat@uw.edu

GWN M230

Rie Tsujihara

Lecturer, Japanese Applied Linguistics

rtsuji@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30pm - 1:30pm

SMI 020

Applied Linguistics, discourse analysis, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Pragmatics, Second Language Acquisition

Bich-Ngoc Turner

Associate Teaching Professor

turnerbn@uw.edu

Office Hours: On Leave

GWN 235

Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, Contemporary Vietnamese Literature, Language Pedagogy, Postwar Vietnam, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese

Kirk L. Van Scoyoc

Counseling Services Coordinator
Academic Counselor
Graduate Program Advisor
TA Coordinator

asianadv@uw.edu / 206-543-4997

Office Hours: appointments preferred, but drop-ins usually available Monday-Friday: 8:30-11:30 AM and 1:00-4:00 PM

GWN 225

Ping Wang

Professor

pingw@uw.edu / 206-543-4286

GWN M246

Chinese, Intellectual History, Literature, Medieval, Philology, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation

Ping Wang

Professor

pingw@uw.edu / 206-543-4286

GWN M246

Chinese, Intellectual History, Literature, Medieval, Philology, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation

Yihan Wang

MA student in Buddhist Studies

ywang457@uw.edu

Art History, Buddhist Studies, Digital Humanities, Indo-European Linguistics, Religion, Silk Road, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Mana Washino

MA student in Japanese linguistics
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

mwashino@uw.edu

GWN M230

Applied Linguistics, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

Linjia Weng

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

lynnn7@uw.edu

GWN M226

Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Old Chinese, Phonology, Proto-Min

EunYoung Won

Teaching Professor

woney@uw.edu / 206-543-4202

Office Hours: Mondays 1:00PM-2:00 PM

GWN M235

Applied Linguistics, Computer assisted language teaching, Korean, Language Pedagogy

Yunxiao Xiao

Acting Assistant Professor

yxxiao@uw.edu

SMI 022

Archaeology, Book History, Chinese, Chinese paleography, Codicology and Comparative Manuscript Studies, Early Chinese Literary Culture, Historiography, Media Studies, Science and Technology, Textual Studies

Ping Xu

PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures

Sherry Xu

PhD Student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

jinyuexu@uw.edu

GWN M230

Japanese

Anjali Yadav

Doctoral Candidate in South Asian Languages and Cultures

ayadav06@uw.edu

18th Century, Hindi, History, Literature, South Asian, Translation and Interpretation, Women's Writings

Hongjia (Olympia) Yan

PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

hongjy5@uw.edu

GWN M226

Liping Yu

Teaching Professor
Chair of TA Training Committee

lyu@uw.edu / 206-685-0394

Office Hours: Mondays 2:00-3:00PM (on Zoom: https://washington.zoom.us/j/9066786595) or by appointment

GWN 214

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

Xinyue Yu

MA student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Korean

xyu2021@uw.edu

GWN M224

Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, East Asian, Korean, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Popular Culture

Ben Zhang

PhD student in Chinese

benzh@uw.edu

GWN M226

Ancient Chinese phonology, Chinese, Chinese Dialectology, Chinese etymology, Chinese paleography, Historical Linguistics, Old Chinese morphology, Philology

Yan Zhu

Lecturer

yanzh@uw.edu / 206-221-2077

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30pm - 2:30pm and by appointment

SMI 024

Chinese

Avery (Wanmin) Zhu (they/them)

PhD Student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

wmzhu@uw.edu

GWN M226

Chinese, Funeral Rituals, Literature, Medieval, Philology, Ritual Texts, Stele Inscriptions

Emeriti Faculty

Nyan-Ping Bi

Teaching Professor Emeritus of Chinese

npbi@uw.edu

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

Frederick Brandauer

Professor Emeritus of Chinese

Chinese

Collett Cox

Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit

collett@uw.edu

Buddhist Studies, Indian Buddhism, Indian philosophy, Pali and the Prakrits, Philosophy, Religion, Sanskrit, South Asian

Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs

Lecturer Emeritus of Thai

dohrs@uw.edu

Language Pedagogy, Music, Southeast Asian, Thai

David R. Knechtges

Professor Emeritus of Chinese

knechtge@uw.edu

Chinese, Chinese literary history, classical prose, fu, Han and Six Dynasties literature, Literature, Premodern Asian Studies, Wen xuan

Kaoru Ohta

Teaching Professor Emeritus of Japanese

kaoru@uw.edu

Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax

Prem Pahlajrai

Associate Teaching Professor Emeritus of Hindi

prem@uw.edu

Advaita Vedanta, Hindi, Language Pedagogy, Philosophy, Sanskrit, South Asian

Richard G. Salomon

William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor Emeritus of Sanskrit

rsalomon@uw.edu

ancient Indian history, Buddhist Studies, Epigraphy, Gandharan studies, History, Pali and the Prakrits, Sanskrit, South Asian

Michael C. Shapiro

Professor Emeritus of Hindi

hindimcs@uw.edu

Hindi, Historical Linguistics, Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics, Linguistics, Literature, South Asian

Anne Yue-Hashimoto

Professor Emeritus of Chinese

anneyue@uw.edu

Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Diachronic and Synchronic studies in Dialectology, Grammar and Phonology; Typology; Field work; Language contact; Areal linguistics; Oracle-bone inscriptions, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Philology

Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

People - Adjuncts & Affiliates
Name	Title	Email/Phone
Braester, Yomi	Adjunct; Professor in Cinema & Media Studies	yomi@uw.edu
Mawkanuli, Talant	Adjunct; Teaching Professor in Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures	tmawkan@uw.edu 206-616-5616
Novetzke, Christian	Adjunct; Professor in the Jackson School's South Asia, Comparative Religion, and International Studies Programs	novetzke@uw.edu 206-543-6142
Ogihara, Toshiyuki	Adjunct; Professor in Linguistics	ogihara@uw.edu