People - Graduate Student

Please Note: Faculty and TAs do not hold office hours during Finals Week and Quarter Breaks.

Nathaniel Bond

Graduate Student in Japanese, Teaching Assistant in Japanese, Department Student Representative
natbond@uw.edu
206-543-4685
Detective Fiction, Japanese Humor, Post-War Japanese Literature, Science Fiction, Taishuu Literature, Japanese
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Sean T Bradley

Graduate Student in Chinese
hkdsean@uw.edu
Botany, Chinese Medicine, History and Transfer of Medicine, The Silk Road, Chinese, Literature, Medicine, Science and Technology
Benjamin Burton

Benjamin Burton

Graduate Student in Japanese, Teaching Assistant in Japanese
burtonb@uw.edu
206-543-4685
Left-wing Literature, manga and comics theory, Proletarian literature, Comparative Literature, Critical Theory
M. Butcher

Michael Butcher

Graduate Student in Buddhist Studies
mdbutche@uw.edu
John Carlyle

John Carlyle

Graduate Student in Chinese
jtcarlyl@uw.edu
Chinese dialects, Chinese historical phonology, Comparative Linguistics, Philology, Writing Systems
Julia Chatterjee

Julia Chatterjee

Graduate Student in South Asian Studies
chajul@uw.edu
Ancient and Early Historical Periods, Epigraphy, Indo-Iranian Languages, Pali and Prakrit, Sanskrit, Philology, Writing Systems
X. Chen

Xinzhan Chen

Graduate Student in Chinese
chencxz@uw.edu
Late Imperial and modern Chinese literature, Chinese, Intellectual History

Zhinan Chen

Doctoral Student in Chinese, Teaching Assistant in Chinese
Office Hours: Wednesdays 3:30-5
chenzn@uw.edu
206-616-0995
Chinese

Hannah T Chi

Graduate Student in Chinese
chih2@uw.edu
Y. Chou

Ying-Hsiu Chou

Graduate Student in Chinese
chouhsiu@uw.edu
206-616-0995
Chinese, Film/Cinema, Literature, Popular Culture

Corbett Costello

Graduate Student in South Asian Languages and Literature, Teaching Assistant in South Asian
cc2771@uw.edu
206-616-2113
B. DeTora

Benjamin DeTora

Graduate Student in Japanese, Teaching Assistant in Japanese
bdetora@uw.edu
206-616-6575
Burakumin, Film & Media Studies, Japanese Cinema, Minority Literature, Postwar Japanese literature, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Visual Culture
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Christopher Diamond

Graduate Student in South Asian Languages and Literature
cldiam@uw.edu
616-2113
Apabhramsa, Avadhi, Braj Bhasa, Maithili, Persian, Bengali (Bangla), Hindi, Sanskrit, Medieval, Music, Philology, Poetry and Poetics, Religion

Siyuan Fu

Graduate Student in Chinese, Teaching Assistant in Chinese
siyuanf@uw.edu
206-616-0995
Early and Medieval China, Chinese, Art History, Literature, Medieval, Translation and Interpretation, Visual Culture
Gyeol Han

Gyeol Han

Graduate Student in Chinese, Teaching Assistant in Korean
gyeol@uw.edu
206-616-6492
Etymology, Sino-Xenic Readings, Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Philology, Writing Systems
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Ross Henderson

Graduate Student in Japanese
Office Hours: On FLAS this quarter
rdhender@uw.edu
Pre-Modern Japanese Literature, Japanese, Premodern Asian Studies, Medieval, Poetry and Poetics, Reception Studies, Textual Studies, Writing Systems
Genevieve Hill

Genevieve Hill

Graduate Student in Japanese, Teaching Assistant in Japanese
Office Hours: Tu 1:30-2:30 and by appointment
ghill10@uw.edu
206-543‐4685
Grotesque, Modern and Postwar Literature, Japanese, Comparative Literature, Film/Cinema, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Popular Culture, Translation and Interpretation
Nobuko Horikawa

Nobuko Horikawa

Graduate Student in Japanese, Teaching Assistant in Japanese
horikn@uw.edu
206-616-6575
Left-wing Literature, Pre-War Japanese Literature, Children's Literature

Kaori Igarashi

Graduate Student in Japanese
igarashi@uw.edu
W. Jeong

Wook-Jin Jeong

Doctoral Student in Chinese
xuzhen@uw.edu
and Japan, Cultures of China, Korea, Modern and Pre-Modern Literature, History
Bo Jiang

Bo Jiang

Graduate Student in Chinese
jiangb2@uw.edu
Chinese Dialectology, Chinese historical phonology

Sravani Kanamarlapudi

Graduate Student in South Asian Languages and Literature, Teaching Assistant in South Asian
ART 339
sravanik@uw.edu
206-616-2113
Advaita Vedanta, Epic literature, Indian philosophy, South Asian, Sanskrit, Philosophy, Religion
Youngjun Kwon

Youngjun Kwon

Graduate Student in Chinese, Teaching Assistant in Korean Language
yjkwon@uw.edu
206-616-6492
Chinese dialects, Sinoxenic Pronunciations, Chinese, Korean, Comparative Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Intellectual History, Linguistics, Philology, Writing Systems

Zhihua Li

Graduate Student in Chinese, Teaching Assistant in Chinese
lizhihua@uw.edu
206-616-0995
Late Qing China, Chinese, Literature, Translation and Interpretation

Jennifer Liu

Doctoral Student in Chinese
jenluo@uw.edu
20th Century French and German Philosophy, Pre-Qin texts and thought, Chinese, Philology, Philosophy

Christopher J. Lowy

Doctoral Student in Japanese, Teaching Assistant in Japanese
clowy@uw.edu
206-543-4685
Contemporary Japanese Literature and Criticism; Aesthetics of Written Japanese, Japanese, 20th Century, 21st Century, Critical Theory, East Asian, Literary Criticism, Writing Systems
F. Muhamed

Fatuma Muhamed

Graduate Student in Japanese
fmuhamed@uw.edu
Japanese popular culture, post-war literature, Translation
Sayo

Sayo Sakamoto

Graduate Student in Japanese, Teaching Assistant in Japanese
sayos@uw.edu
206-543-4685
Postwar Japanese literature, Japanese, Film/Cinema, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Music, Popular Culture
A. Steel

Aaron Steel

Graduate Student in Japanese
asteel@uw.edu
Japanese, Comparative Linguistics, Education, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Popular Culture, Second Language Acquisition, Translation and Interpretation

Kevin W. Tahmoresi

Doctoral Student in Chinese
kt5356@uw.edu
Tang Poetry, Chinese, Poetry and Poetics
Kisaki Takeuchi

Kisaki Takeuchi

Graduate Student in Japanese
kisakt@uw.edu
Japanese Literature, Comparative Literature, Film/Cinema, Poetry and Poetics, Popular Culture, Translation and Interpretation

Yin Yin Tan

Graduate Student in Chinese
yyt2@uw.edu
Sociolinguistics, Chinese, Linguistics
Arden Taylor

Arden Taylor

Graduate Student in Japanese
ardent87@uw.edu
Heian-Edo period language and linguistics, Japanese Literature, Linguistics
H. Wang

Hongzhi Wang

Graduate Student in Chinese
Chinese Classic Philology, Chinese Dialectology, Chinese historical phonology, OBI Study
W. Wang

Wandi Wang

Graduate Student in Chinese
wandiw@u.washington.edu
Pre-modern Chinese literature

Virginia I. Williams

Graduate Student in Chinese
viw@uw.edu
Historical Phonology, Lexicography, Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Writing Systems

Kai Xie

Doctoral Candidate in Japanese
kaixie@uw.edu
Japanese Reception of Classical Chinese Texts, Premodern Japanese literature, Sino-Japanese (kanbun) literature

Man Zhang

Doctoral Student in Chinese, Teaching Assistant in Chinese
zhangman@uw.edu
206-685-1269
Chinese dialects, Chinese historical phonology, Transcription of Chinese and Foreign Languages, Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Writing Systems

Shuheng (Diana) Zhang

Graduate Student in Chinese
zshuheng@uw.edu
Rhetoric, Stylistics, Aesthetics, Historical Linguistics, Intellectual History, Philosophy, Textual Studies, Writing Systems

Fei Zhao

Undergraduate Adviser; Graduate Student in Buddhist Studies
GWN M216
asianadv@uw.edu
206-685-1269
Buddhist Studies, South Asian, Religion

Xi Zhu

Graduate Student in Chinese, Teaching Assistant in Chinese
xizhu@uw.edu
206-616-0995
Early Chinese texts, Early Medieval Chinese Poetry, Manuscript study, Chinese