People - Faculty

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Name

Field of Interest

Jameel Ahmad

Teaching Professor

jameel7@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 11:30am - 12:20pm

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

Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays | 5:30pm - 6:00pm

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 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm | by appointment only

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

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

GWN M239

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

Amruta M. Chandekar

Assistant Teaching Professor

amrutc@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

Office Hours: Tuesdays, Thursdays 11:30am - 12:00pm

GWN M233

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

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

Jennifer Dubrow

Associate Professor

jdubrow@uw.edu / 206-543-4146

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

GWN M212

19th Century, 20th Century, Hindi, Literature, Modernism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial, Print culture in South Asia, South Asian, Textual Studies, Urdu

David Fowler

Lecturer

dsfowler@uw.edu

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

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

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

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

Akiko Iwata

Associate Teaching Professor
Chair of TA Training Committee

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

JungHee Kim

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

junghee@uw.edu / 206-543-7487

Office Hours: Mondays | 1:30pm - 2:30pm

GWN M227

Korean

Ungsan Kim

Assistant Professor

sankim@uw.edu / 206-616-8060

Office Hours: Mondays 5:00pm-06:00pm 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

Sravanthi Kollu

Assistant Professor
Hanuma and Anuradha Kodavalla Endowed Chair in Telugu

kollu@uw.edu

Office Hours: Winter 2026: Mondays and Wednesdays 1-2pm

GWN 244

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

Chan Lü

Associate 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

GWN 212

Chinese

Ted Mack

Professor
Undergraduate Education Committee Chair

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

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

Ha Nguyen

Assistant Teaching Professor

thuha29@uw.edu / 543-4805

Office Hours: Mondays 1pm-1.30 pm & Tuesdays 9.30-10.30 am

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: Thursdays 11:00am - 12:00pm

GWN M248

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Amy Snyder Ohta

Professor

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

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

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

GWN M250

Indonesian, Language Pedagogy, Southeast Asian

Fumiko Takeda

Assistant Teaching Professor

fumikot@uw.edu / 206-616-2113

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

GWN 229

Japanese

Rie Tsujihara

Lecturer, Japanese Applied Linguistics

rtsuji@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 12:30pm - 1:30pm, 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 / 206-221-3362

Office Hours: Wednesdays 10:45am - 11:45am

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

Office Hours: Wednesdays | 1:00pm - 2:00pm (on Zoom)

GWN M246

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

EunYoung Won

Teaching Professor

woney@uw.edu / 206-543-4202

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

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

Liping Yu

Teaching Professor

lyu@uw.edu / 206-685-0394

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30pm - 2:30pm (on Zoom)

GWN 214

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

Yan Zhu

Lecturer

yanzh@uw.edu / 206-221-2077

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30pm - 2:30pm

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