People - Faculty

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Name

Field of Interest

Jameel Ahmad

Teaching Professor

GWN M231

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

Paul S. Atkins

Professor
Japanese Program Coordinator

patkins@uw.edu / 206-543-4925

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

Dance, Poetry and Poetics, South Asian, Telugu

Nazry Bahrawi

Assistant Professor
Southeast Asian Program Coordinator

nazryb@uw.edu / 206-543-3086

GWN 239

Animal Studies, Comparative Literature, Decoloniality, 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

Davinder Bhowmik

Associate Professor

dbhowmik@uw.edu / 206-543-4699

GWN M239

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

Amruta M. Chandekar

Assistant Teaching Professor

amrutc@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

SMI 022

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

Heekyoung Cho

Associate 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

SeaHee Choi

Assistant Teaching Professor

seahchoi@uw.edu / 206-221-9184

GWN M233

Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, experimental linguistics, Korean, Korean linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

Binata Chowdhuri

Lecturer

binatac@uw.edu

SMI 016

Bengali (Bangla), Literature, Poetry and Poetics, South Asian, Visual Arts

Jennifer Dubrow

Associate Professor

jdubrow@uw.edu / 206-543-4146

GWN M212

19th Century, 20th Century, Hindi, Modernism, Postcolonial, Print culture in South Asia, South Asian, Textual Studies, Urdu

David Fowler

Lecturer

dsfowler@uw.edu

SMI 016

Sanskrit, South Asian

John Christopher (Chris) Hamm

Professor

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
Chinese Program Coordinator
Korean Program Coordinator

zhandel@uw.edu / 206-543-4996

GWN 225

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

Nielson Hul

Lecturer

nhul@uw.edu

SMI 016

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

Akiko Iwata

Associate Teaching Professor

iwata3@uw.edu / 206-543-6628

GWN 246

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Justin Jesty

Associate Professor

jestyj@uw.edu

DEN 343

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

JungHee Kim

Teaching Professor
Summer Sessions Coordinator
Korean Language Coordinator
Faculty Merit Review Committee Coordinator

junghee@uw.edu / 206-543-7487

GWN M227

Korean

Ungsan Kim

Assistant Professor

sankim@uw.edu / 206-616-8060

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

GWN M235

Japanese, Korean, Language Pedagogy

Chan Lü

Associate Professor
Chair

chanlu@uw.edu / 206-543-2757

GWN M214

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

SMI 018

Chinese

Ted Mack

Professor
Undergraduate Education Committee Chair

tmack@uw.edu / 206-543-4356

Office Hours: Online by appointment

GWN 248

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

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

GWN 250

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Itsuko Nishikawa

Teaching Professor
Japanese Language Coordinator

inishi@uw.edu / 206-543-4995

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00-2:00pm

GWN M248

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Amy Snyder Ohta

Professor
Chair of EJI Committee

aohta@uw.edu / 206-543-6315

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

GWN 233

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

Gian Rominger

Assistant Professor

gromin@uw.edu / 206-212-9375

GWN M225

Chinese, Data Science in the Humanities, Digital Humanities, Intellectual History, Literature

Desiana Pauli Sandjaja

Teaching Professor
Southeast Asian Language Coordinator

sandjaja@uw.edu / 206-543-9170

GWN M250

Indonesian, Language Pedagogy, Southeast Asian

Fumiko Takeda

Assistant Teaching Professor

fumikot@uw.edu / 206-616-2113

GWN 229

Japanese

Rie Tsujihara

Lecturer, Japanese Applied Linguistics

rtsuji@uw.edu

SMI 020

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

Yukiko Tsukada

Lecturer

tsukay@uw.edu

GWN M216

Japanese

Bich-Ngoc Turner

Associate Teaching Professor

turnerbn@uw.edu / 206-221-3362

GWN 235

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

Ping Wang

Professor
Graduate Program Coordinator
Graduate Admissions & Education Committee Chair

pingw@uw.edu / 206-543-4286

GWN M246

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

EunYoung Won

Teaching Professor

woney@uw.edu / 206-543-4202

GWN M235

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

Liping Yu

Teaching Professor
Chair of TA Training Committee

lyu@uw.edu / 206-685-0394

GWN 214

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

Yan Zhu

Lecturer

yanzh@uw.edu / 206-221-2077

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

SMI 024

Chinese

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 and Media Studies	yomi@uw.edu 206-221-6639
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