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Nandini Abedin

Lecturer

abedin@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

Office Hours: TTh 11:30-12:20

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

Office Hours: WF 12:30-1:20

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

Office Hours: M 1:30-2:20

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

Office Hours: W 3:30-4:20

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

Office Hours: W 1:00-2:00

GWN M229

Chinese, Language Pedagogy

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William Boltz

Professor

boltzwm@uw.edu / 206-543-4926

Office Hours: F 2:30-3:30

GWN M250

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

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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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Amruta M. Chandekar

Part-time Lecturer

amrutc@uw.edu / 206-616-4603

Office Hours: MW 10:00-10:30

SMI 022

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

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Heekyoung Cho

Associate Professor

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, South Asian Program Coordinator

collett@uw.edu / 206-543-4965

Office Hours: T 2:30-3:20, Th 11:30-12:20

GWN M245

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

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Jennifer Dubrow

Associate Professor

jdubrow@uw.edu / 206-543-4146

Office Hours: On leave

GWN M212

Book History, Print Culture, South Asian, Urdu, 19th Century, Comparative Literature, Textual Studies

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John Christopher (Chris) Hamm

Associate Professor, Summer Quarter Coordinator, Undergraduate Education Chair

jcsong@uw.edu / 206-543-4974

Office Hours: MW 10:30-11:30

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

Office Hours: M 1:30-3:00

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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Jeongwon Hyun

Part-time Lecturer

jwhyun@uw.edu / 206-616-6492

Office Hours: M 12:30-1:20

SMI 016

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Akiko Iwata

Lecturer

iwata3@uw.edu / 206-543-6628

Office Hours: F 1:30-2:30, W 12:30-1:30

GWN 244

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

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Justin Jesty

Associate Professor

jestyj@uw.edu / 206-221-9184

Office Hours: On leave

GWN M233

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

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JungHee Kim

Senior Lecturer

junghee@uw.edu / 206-543-7487

Office Hours: Th 11:30-12:30

GWN 239

Korean

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Tim Lenz

Senior Lecturer

tjlenz@uw.edu / 206-616-2113

Office Hours: MT 8:00-9:00

GWN 229

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

Office Hours: M 12:00-1:00

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: T 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

Office Hours: T 1:30-2:30

GWN M214

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

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Itsuko Nishikawa

Senior Lecturer

inishi@uw.edu / 206-543-4995

Office Hours: T 1:00-2:00

GWN M225

Japanese, Language Pedagogy

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Amy Snyder Ohta

Associate Professor, Japanese Program Coordinator

aohta@uw.edu / 206-543-6315

Office Hours: W 12:00-1:00

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: Th 1:30-2:20

GWN 246

Morphology, Syntax, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics

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Prem Pahlajrai

Senior Lecturer

prem@uw.edu / 206-543-4096

Office Hours: TTh 8:00-9:00

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, collaboration with Gent University, Belgium

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

Office Hours: W 2:30-3:30

GWN M248

Southeast Asian, Indonesian, Language Pedagogy

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Fumiko Takeda

Part-time Lecturer

fumikot@uw.edu

Office Hours: M 11:30-12:20

GWN M216

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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, Chinese Program Coordinator

pingw@uw.edu / 206-543-4286

Office Hours: M 2:00-3:00

GWN M246

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

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EunYoung Won

Lecturer, Korean Program Coordinator

woney@uw.edu / 206-543-4202

Office Hours: T 11:30-12:30

GWN 235

Korean, Language Pedagogy

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Liping Yu

Senior Lecturer

lyu@uw.edu / 206-685-0394

Office Hours: M 1:30-2:30

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

Office Hours: W 9:30-10:20

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
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

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