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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

Senior Lecturer
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 and Department Chair
patkins@uw.edu / 206-543-4996
GWN 225
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
GWN M239
Okinawan fiction, Japanese, 20th Century, 21st Century, Literature
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Nyan-Ping Bi

Principal Lecturer
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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Jyana Browne

Part-time Lecturer
jyanab@uw.edu
Japanese, Premodern Asian Studies, 18th Century, Drama, Literature, Performance Studies
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Yuqing Cao

Lecturer
ycao@uw.edu / 206-543-8657
Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00
GWN 212
Chinese, Language Pedagogy
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Ian Chapman

Ian Chapman

Part-time Lecturer
ichapman@uw.edu / 206-897-1584
Office Hours: T 3:30-4:30
SMI 020
Chinese
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Heekyoung Cho

Associate Professor, Korean Program Coordinator
hchohcho@uw.edu / 206-543-6937
Office Hours: On Leave
GWN M244
New Media, Korean, Comics, Digital Humanities, East Asian, Global and Transnational Studies, Postcolonial, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation
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Collett Cox

Professor
collett@uw.edu / 206-543-4965
GWN M245
Buddhist Studies, Indian Buddhism, Indian philosophy, South Asian, Pali and the Prakrits, Sanskrit, Philosophy, Religion
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Jennifer Dubrow

Jennifer Dubrow

Assistant Professor, South Asian Program Coordinator
jdubrow@uw.edu / 206-543-4146
GWN 229
Book History, Print Culture, South Asian, Urdu, 19th Century, Comparative Literature, Textual Studies
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John Christopher (Chris) Hamm

Associate Professor, Chinese Program Coordinator, Summer Quarter 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

Associate Professor, Associate Chair
zhandel@uw.edu / 206-543-4863
GWN 245
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

Lecturer
iwata3@uw.edu / 206-543-6628
GWN 244
Japanese, Language Pedagogy
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Justin Jesty

Assistant Professor, Japanese Program Coordinator
jestyj@uw.edu / 206-221-9184
GWN M233
Japanese, Art History, Film/Cinema, Literature, Visual Culture
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Hyein (Amber) Kim

Visiting Lecturer
amberhk@uw.edu / 206-543-7487
Office Hours: W 1:00-2:00
GWN 239
Korean Language, Multicultural Education, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL), Korean, Race and Ethnicity, International Studies, Religion, Second Language Acquisition, Translation and Interpretation
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Tim Lenz

Senior Lecturer
tjlenz@uw.edu / 206-616-2113
ART 339
Buddhist Studies, Early Indian Buddhism, Gandhari Buddihism, Narrative in Indian religious traditions, South Asian, Pali and the Prakrits, Sanskrit, Religion
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Chan Lu

Assistant 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
Office Hours: W 12:00-1:00
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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Izumi Matsuda-Kiami

Senior Lecturer, Japanese Language Coordinator
matsuda@uw.edu / 206-543-0066
GWN M214
Japanese, Language Pedagogy
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Bonnie Mitchell

Part-time Lecturer
bmm6@uw.edu
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Itsuko Nishikawa

Senior Lecturer
inishi@uw.edu / 206-543-4995
Office Hours: M 1:10-2:10
GWN M225
Japanese, Language Pedagogy
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Amy Ohta

Amy Snyder Ohta

Associate Professor
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

Senior Lecturer
kaoru@uw.edu / 206-543-6936
Office Hours: M 1:00-2:00
GWN 246
Morphology, Syntax, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics
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Prem Pahlajrai

Senior Lecturer
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
GWN 233
Hinduism, Medieval and modern Hindi language and literature, Sanskrit language and literature, South Asian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Medieval
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Desiana Pauli Sandjaja

Senior Lecturer, Southeast Asian Program Coordinator
sandjaja@uw.edu / 206-543-9170
GWN M248
Southeast Asian, Indonesian, Language Pedagogy
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Michael C. Shapiro

Professor, Divisional Dean of Humanities
hindimcs@uw.edu
CMU 071
Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics, South Asian, Hindi, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Literature
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Yukiko Tsukada

Teaching Associate
tsukay@uw.edu
GWN M212
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Bich-Ngoc Turner

Lecturer
turnerbn@uw.edu / 206-221-3362
Office Hours: Th 12:00-1:00
SMI 018
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

Lecturer
woney@uw.edu / 206-543-4202
GWN 235
Korean, Language Pedagogy
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Liping Yu

Senior Lecturer
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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Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs

Lecturer Emerita
dohrs@uw.edu
Southeast Asian, Thai, Language Pedagogy, Music
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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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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
Braester, Yomi Adjunct Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature yomi@uw.edu
206-221-6639
Lien, Y. Edmund Affiliate Assistant Professor, Chinese Literature elien@uw.edu
Novetzke, Christian Adjunct Professor novetzke@uw.edu
206-543-6142
Takashima, Ken-Ichi Affiliate Professor kentak@uw.edu
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