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Nandini Abedin

Lecturer
SMI 022
abedin@uw.edu
206-616-4603
South Asian, Bengali (Bangla), Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition
Vazir Khan Masjid Lahore

Jameel Ahmad

Senior Lecturer
GWN M231
jameel7@uw.edu
206-543-6491
Ghazal History Poetics and Translation, Language Pedagogy, South Asian, Hindi, Urdu, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation

Paul S. Atkins

Professor and Department Chair
GWN 225
patkins@uw.edu
206-543-4996
Classical and premodern Japanese language and literature, Japanese, Premodern Asian Studies, Drama, Literature, Medieval, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation

Davinder Bhowmik

Associate Professor
GWN M239
dbhowmik@uw.edu
206-543-4699
Okinawan fiction, Japanese, 20th Century, 21st Century, Literature

Nyan-Ping Bi

Senior Lecturer
GWN M229
npbi@uw.edu
206-543-6931
Chinese, Language Pedagogy

William Boltz

Professor, Graduate Program Coordinator
GWN M250
boltzwm@uw.edu
206-543-4926
Manuscript study, Philology, Textual criticism, Chinese, Historiography, Linguistics, Textual Studies, Writing Systems

Yuqing Cao

Lecturer
Office Hours: W 1:00-3:00
GWN 212
ycao@uw.edu
206-543-8657
Chinese, Language Pedagogy
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Amruta M. Chandekar

Lecturer
SMI 022
amrutc@uw.edu
206-616-4603
Narrative Theory, Pragmatics, Semantics, Syntax, South Asian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu, Linguistics, Literature, Textual Studies

Ian Chapman

Lecturer
SMI 020
ichapman@uw.edu
206-897-1584
Chinese

Heekyoung Cho

Assistant Professor, Korean Program Coordinator
GWN M244
hchohcho@uw.edu
206-543-6937
Modern Korean Literature, Print Culture, Korean, Comics, Culture, Global and Transnational Studies, Popular Culture, Postcolonial, Translation and Interpretation

Collett Cox

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

Jennifer Dubrow

Assistant Professor, South Asian Program Coordinator
GWN 229
jdubrow@uw.edu
206-543-4146
Book History, Print Culture, South Asian, Urdu, 19th Century, Comparative Literature, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Textual Studies, Visual Culture

John Christopher (Chris) Hamm

Associate Professor, Chinese Program Coordinator, Summer Quarter Coordinator
GWN M235
jcsong@uw.edu
206-543-4974
Late Imperial and modern Chinese literature, Chinese, Film/Cinema, Literature

Zev Handel

Associate Chair, Associate Professor
GWN 245
zhandel@uw.edu
206-543-4863
Asian writing systems, Chinese Dialectology, comparative Sino-Tibetan linguistics, Historical Phonology, Tibeto-Berman languages, Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Writing Systems

Akiko Iwata

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

Justin Jesty

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

Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs

Lecturer
GWN M212
dohrs@uw.edu
206-543-9007
Southeast Asian, Thai, Language Pedagogy, Music
Amber Kim

Hyein (Amber) Kim

Visiting Lecturer
GWN 239
amberhk@uw.edu
206-543-7487
Korean Language, Korean, Critical Theory, Culture, Education, Race and Ethnicity, Religion, Translation and Interpretation

Woojoo Kim

Lecturer
Office Hours: W 1:00-2:00
GWN 235
wjkim2@uw.edu
206-543-4202
Korean, Language Pedagogy

Tim Lenz

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

Chan Lu

Assistant Professor in Chinese Language and Linguistics, Chinese Language Coordinator
GWN M227
chanlu@uw.edu
206-543-2757
Bilingualism and Biliteracy, Immersion Education, Second Language Reading, Chinese, Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition

Ted Mack

Graduate Program Coordinator, Associate Professor
Office Hours: By Appointment
GWN 248
tmack@uw.edu
206-543-4356
Modern Japanese literature, Japanese, Critical Theory, Race and Ethnicity, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Global and Transnational Studies, Postcolonial

Izumi Matsuda-Kiami

Senior Lecturer, Japanese Language Coordinator
Office Hours: T 1:00-2:00
GWN M214
matsuda@uw.edu
206-543-0066
Japanese, Language Pedagogy
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Hongyan Newton

Lecturer
Office Hours: M 1:00-3:00
GWN 239
hongyann@uw.edu
206-543-7487
Chinese

Itsuko Nishikawa

Senior Lecturer
Office Hours: T 1:30-2:30
GWN M225
inishi@uw.edu
206-543-4995
Japanese, Language Pedagogy

Amy Snyder Ohta

Associate Professor
GWN 247
aohta@uw.edu
206-543-6315
discourse analysis, social media, Sociolinguistics, Japanese, Applied Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

Kaoru Ohta

Senior Lecturer
GWN 246
kaoru@uw.edu
206-543-6936
Morphology, Syntax, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics

Prem Pahlajrai

Senior Lecturer
GWN 231
prem@uw.edu
206-543-4096
Advaita Vedanta, South Asian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Language Pedagogy, Philosophy

Heidi Pauwels

Professor
GWN 233
hpauwels@uw.edu
206-543-4235
Hinduism, Medieval and modern Hindi language and literature, Sanskrit language and literature, South Asian, Hindi, Sanskrit, Medieval

Richard G. Salomon

William P. and Ruth Gerberding University Professor
GWN 250
rsalomon@uw.edu
206-543-8763
ancient Indian history, Buddhist Studies, Epigraphy, Gandharan studies, South Asian, Pali and the Prakrits, Sanskrit, History

Desiana Pauli Sandjaja

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

Professor, Divisional Dean of Humanities
Office Hours: By appointment only
CMU 071
hindimcs@uw.edu
Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics, South Asian, Hindi, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Literature
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Bich-Ngoc Turner

Lecturer
Office Hours: F 9:30-10:30
SMI 018
turnerbn@uw.edu
206-221-3362
Contemporary Vietnamese Literature, Postwar Vietnam, Southeast Asian, Vietnamese, Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing, International Studies

Ping Wang

Assistant Professor
GWN M246
pingw@uw.edu
206-543-4286
Chinese, Intellectual History, Literature, Medieval, Philology, Poetry and Poetics, Translation and Interpretation

Eunyoung Won

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

Liping Yu

Senior Lecturer
GWN 214
lyu@uw.edu
206-685-0394
Chinese, Language Pedagogy

Anne Yue-Hashimoto

Professor
GWN M247
anneyue@uw.edu
206-543-4165
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

Emeritus Faculty

Name Title
Brandauer, Frederick Professor Emeritus of Chinese
Nguyen, Kim Senior Lecturer Emeritus


Adjunct and Affiliate Faculty

Name Title Email / Phone Office
Aldridge, Edith Adjunct Associate Professor; Associate Professor of Linguistics aldr@uw.edu
206-685-4845 		GUG 415F, Box 352425
Braester, Yomi Adjunct Professor; Professor of Comparative Literature yomi@uw.edu
206-221-6639 		C504 PDL, Box 354338
Lien, Y. Edmund Affiliate Assistant Professor, Chinese Literature elien@uw.edu
Novetzke, Christian Adjunct Professor novetzke@uw.edu
206-543-6142 		303C THO, Box 353650
Takashima, Ken-Ichi Affiliate Professor kentak@uw.edu