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Nandini Abedin

Lecturer

abedin@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

SMI 022

South Asian, Bengali (Bangla), Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

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Jameel Ahmad

Associate Teaching Professor

jameel7@uw.edu / 206-543-6491

GWN M231

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

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Paul S. Atkins

Professor

patkins@uw.edu / 206-543-4925

GWN M247

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

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Davinder Bhowmik

Associate Professor

dbhowmik@uw.edu / 206-543-4699

Office Hours: On leave

GWN M239

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

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Nyan-Ping Bi

Teaching Professor

npbi@uw.edu / 206-543-6931

GWN M229

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

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William Boltz

Professor

boltzwm@uw.edu / 206-543-4926

GWN M250

Manuscript study, Philology, Textual criticism, Chinese, Historiography, Linguistics, Textual Studies, Writing Systems

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Yuqing Cao

Assistant Teaching Professor, Summer Quarter Coordinator

ycao@uw.edu / 206-543-8657

GWN 212

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

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Heekyoung Cho

Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Korean Program Coordinator

hchohcho@uw.edu / 206-543-6937

GWN M244

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

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Jennifer Dubrow

Associate Professor, South Asian Program Coordinator

jdubrow@uw.edu / 206-543-4146

GWN M212

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

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John Christopher (Chris) Hamm

Professor, Chinese Program Coordinator

jcsong@uw.edu / 206-543-4974

GWN M235

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

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Zev Handel

Professor, Department Chair

zhandel@uw.edu / 206-543-4996

GWN 225

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

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Akiko Iwata

Assistant Teaching Professor

iwata3@uw.edu / 206-543-6628

GWN 244

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

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Justin Jesty

Associate Professor

jestyj@uw.edu / 206-221-9184

GWN M233

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

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JungHee Kim

Associate Teaching Professor

junghee@uw.edu / 206-543-7487

GWN 239

Korean

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Chan Lü

Associate Professor, Chinese Language Coordinator

chanlu@uw.edu / 206-543-2757

GWN M227

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

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Ted Mack

Associate Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator

tmack@uw.edu / 206-543-4356

GWN 248

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

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Joseph A. Marino, III

Assistant Professor

jamarino@uw.edu / 206-897-1584

SMI 020

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

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Izumi Matsuda-Kiami

Teaching Professor, Japanese Language Coordinator

matsuda@uw.edu / 206-543-0066

GWN M214

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

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Itsuko Nishikawa

Associate Teaching Professor

inishi@uw.edu / 206-543-4995

GWN M225

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

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Amy Snyder Ohta

Associate Professor, Japanese Program Coordinator

aohta@uw.edu / 206-543-6315

GWN 247

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

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Kaoru Ohta

Associate Teaching Professor

kaoru@uw.edu / 206-543-6936

GWN 246

Morphology, Syntax, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics

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Prem Pahlajrai

Associate Teaching Professor

prem@uw.edu / 206-543-4096

GWN 231

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

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Heidi Pauwels

Professor

hpauwels@uw.edu / 206-543-4235

Office Hours: On Leave

GWN 233

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

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Desiana Pauli Sandjaja

Teaching Professor, Southeast Asian Program Coordinator

sandjaja@uw.edu / 206-543-9170

GWN M248

Southeast Asian, Indonesian, Language Pedagogy

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Fumiko Takeda

Assistant Teaching Professor

fumikot@uw.edu

GWN 229

Japanese

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Bich-Ngoc Turner

Assistant Teaching Professor

turnerbn@uw.edu / 206-221-3362

GWN 235

Contemporary Vietnamese Literature, Postwar Vietnam, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, International Studies

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Ping Wang

Associate Professor

pingw@uw.edu / 206-543-4286

GWN M246

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

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EunYoung Won

Associate Teaching Professor, Korean Language Coordinator

woney@uw.edu / 206-543-4202

GWN M235

Korean, Language Pedagogy

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Liping Yu

Teaching Professor

lyu@uw.edu / 206-685-0394

GWN 214

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

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Emeritus Faculty

Frederick Brandauer

Professor Emeritus of Chinese

fbrandau@uw.edu

Chinese

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Collett Cox

Professor Emeritus

collett@uw.edu / 206-543-4965

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

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Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs

Lecturer Emeritus

dohrs@uw.edu

Southeast Asian, Thai, Language Pedagogy, Music

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David R. Knechtges

Professor Emeritus of Chinese

knechtge@uw.edu

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

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Kim Nguyen

Senior Lecturer Emeritus

oriole@uw.edu

Southeast Asian, Vietnamese, Language Pedagogy

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Richard G. Salomon

William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor Emeritus

rsalomon@uw.edu / 206-543-8763

GWN 250

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

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Michael C. Shapiro

Professor Emeritus

hindimcs@uw.edu

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

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Anne Yue-Hashimoto

Professor Emeritus

anneyue@uw.edu

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

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Adjunct/Affiliate Faculty

Name	Title	Email / Phone
Aldridge, Edith	Adjunct Associate Professor; Associate Professor of Linguistics	aldr@uw.edu 206-685-4845
Lien, Y. Edmund	Affiliate Assistant Professor, Chinese Literature	elien@uw.edu
Novetzke, Christian	Adjunct Professor	novetzke@uw.edu 206-543-6142
Braester, Yomi	Adjunct Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature	yomi@uw.edu 206-221-6639

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