People | Asian Languages & Literature | University of Washington

Tetiana Andriiuk

PhD Student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

tanitaan@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

GWN M230

Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Philology, Translation and Interpretation

Renee Banks

MA student in Japanese linguistics

rbanks@uw.edu

Comparative Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Japanese, Kanji Philology & Pictography, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Writing Systems

Jeremy Browning

MA student in Japanese literature

brown1n9@uw.edu

Buddhist Studies, Classical Japanese, Japanese, Literature, Medieval, Nō Theater, Religion, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Ruiming Cash

PhD Student in Chinese

rcash2@uw.edu

Chinese, Intellectual History, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Writing Pedagogy

Ruikun (Ricky) Chen

PhD student in Japanese literature

rickyrkc@uw.edu

20th Century, 21st Century, Decolonization, East Asian, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Literature, Okinawan Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Postcolonial

Ying-Hsiu Chou

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

chouhsiu@uw.edu

Chinese, East Asian, Feminism, Film/Cinema, Gender, Genre, Literature, Masculinity, Transnational, Visual Arts

Benjamin DeTora

Doctoral Candidate in Japanese literature

bdetora@uw.edu

Burakumin, Film & Media Studies, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Japanese Cinema, Minority Literature, Postwar Japanese literature, Visual Culture

Eli Drake

MA student in Chinese

drakeel3@uw.edu

Chinese, Comparative Literature, Drama, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, History, Literature, Queer Studies

Tichomír Dunlop

MA Student in Japanese literature

dunlop@uw.edu

Classical Japanese, History, Japanese, Linguistics, Literature, Translation and Interpretation, Writing Systems

Andri Fernanda

PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures

aferna5@uw.edu

Collective Memory, Folklore and Mythology, Gender Studies, Indigenous, Indonesian, Oral Tradition, Postmemory Studies, Southeast Asian

Sarah Gelvin

MA student in Japanese literature

gelvins@uw.edu

Folklore and Mythology, Japanese, Literature

Vishnupriya Goswami

PhD Student in South Asian Languages and Cultures

vpriyag@uw.edu

Art History, Braj, Devotional Literature, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Heritage Preservation, Hindi, History, Impacts of Globalization in the 21st Century, Performance Studies, Religion, Sanskrit, South Asian, Vaishnavism

Tessa Hansman

MA student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

tessah7@uw.edu

GWN M230

Ainu History & Culture, Dialects in Japanese, Geisha Culture & Its Depiction in Literary/Visual Arts, Heian Period Female Writers, Japanese, Nō Theater

Tzu-Lu (Lulu) Hung

PhD Student in Japanese literature
PreDoctoral Instructor in Korean Cinema

tzuluh@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays | 12:20-1:20 PM

GWN M224

Disability, Film/Cinema, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Literary Criticism, Novel/Prose Fiction, Postcolonial

Weilin Kao

MA student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

wkao2@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays | 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

GWN M226

Chinese, Language Pedagogy, Literature

Junyoung Kim

PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Korean

juny0ung@uw.edu

GWN M224

Film/Cinema, Gender and Sexuality, Korean, Queer Politics and Activism

Momoka Kodama

MA student in Asian Languages and Cultures

mk295@uw.edu

Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

Jonathan Laiman

PhD Student in Buddhist Studies

jlaiman@uw.edu

Buddhist Studies, Classical Chinese, Gandhāran Buddhist Literature, Indian Buddhism, Philology, Philosophy, Religion, Sanskrit, South Asian, Textual Studies

Mahnoor Lali

PhD student in South Asian Languages and Literature
PreDoctoral Instructor in Urdu

mlali@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays 10:30am - 11:30am

GWN M216

Art History, Crafts, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Hindi, Historiography, Material Culture, Postcolonial, South Asian, Textual Studies, Urdu, Visual Culture

Han (Gloria) Lee

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

ghlee@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00pm - 3:00pm or by appointment

GWN M226

Chinese, Historical Chinese phonology, Historical Linguistics

Linhe Li

PhD student in Chinese

linheli@uw.edu

Art History, Chinese, Comparative Literature, Literature, Medieval, Poetry and Poetics, Premodern Asian Studies, Silk Road

Xi (Milky) Li

MA Student in Japanese literature

xli32@uw.edu

Chinese, Japanese, Literature, Premodern Asian Studies

Pingsheng (Ariel) Liu

Teaching Assistant in Chinese

arielliu@uw.edu

GWN M226

Chinese

Stephanie Liu

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

hungyun@uw.edu

Chinese, Digital Humanities, Gender Studies, Sociolinguistics

Jakub Mackowiak

PhD Student in Chinese

coviack@uw.edu

Chinese, History, Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Political Science

Nicholas Malik

MA Student in Japanese literature

nmalik06@uw.edu

GWN M230

Culture, Japanese, Literature, Translation

Hannah Moore

MA student in Japanese literature

hanajoyy@uw.edu

Japanese, Literature, Localization, Sociolinguistics, Translation and Interpretation, Visual Culture

Jordan Niver-Johnson

PhD Student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

jniver@uw.edu

GWN M230

Comparative Literature, Contemporary Japanese Literature, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Localization, Translation

Codi Reynolds

PhD student in Japanese literature

ccr10026@uw.edu

Intersection between visual and written arts, Japanese, Japanese Literature, Meiji-era literature

Aidan Seipke

PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

awseipke@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

GWN M230

Film/Cinema, Hibakusha Experience, Japanese, Modern Literature, Translation and Interpretation, War Literature

Zhifan Sheng

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

zfsheng@uw.edu

Chinese, Chinese Literature, Digital Humanities, Epistolary Culture, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Film/Cinema, Global and Transnational Studies, Media Studies, Print Culture, Queer Studies, Sinophone Studies

Qinwei (Angelina) Shi

MA Student in Japanese literature

qwshi01@uw.edu

Culture, Japanese, Literature, Popular Culture

Jiwon Song

Doctoral Candidate in Asian Languages and Cultures

jwsong08@uw.edu

Bilingualism, Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Korean, Language acquisition, Linguistics, Writing Systems

Micah Sprouffske

PhD student in Chinese
PreDoctoral Instructor in Chinese

micahsp@uw.edu

GWN M226

Chinese, Diffusion of Writing, Evolution of Writing, Historical Linguistics

Kiwa Tashiro

Teaching Assistant in Japanese

kiwat@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursdays | 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM.

GWN M230

Japanese

Yihan Wang

MA student in Buddhist Studies

ywang457@uw.edu

Art History, Buddhist Studies, Digital Humanities, Indo-European Linguistics, Religion, Silk Road, Textual Studies, Translation and Interpretation

Mana Washino

MA student in Japanese linguistics
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

mwashino@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM and by appointment

GWN M230

Applied Linguistics, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

Linjia Weng

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

lynnn7@uw.edu

GWN M226

Chinese, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Old Chinese, Phonology, Proto-Min

Ping Xu

PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures

ping16@uw.edu

Bilingualism and Biliteracy, Chinese, Family Language Policy, Heritage Chinese, Heritage language learning

Sherry Xu

PhD Student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

jinyuexu@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

GWN M230

Japanese

Anjali Yadav

Doctoral Candidate in South Asian Languages and Cultures

ayadav06@uw.edu

18th Century, Hindi, History, Literature, South Asian, Translation and Interpretation, Women's Writings

Hongjia (Olympia) Yan

PhD student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

hongjy5@uw.edu

GWN M226

Bilingualism and Biliteracy, Chinese, Immersion Education, Language Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition

Xinyue Yu

MA student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Korean

xyu2021@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 12:30am - 1:20pm in person or remote by appointment

GWN M224

Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, East Asian, Korean, Literature, Novel/Prose Fiction, Popular Culture

Ben Zhang

PhD student in Chinese

benzh@uw.edu

GWN M226

Ancient Chinese phonology, Chinese, Chinese Dialectology, Chinese etymology, Chinese paleography, Historical Linguistics, Old Chinese morphology, Philology

Avery (Wanmin) Zhu (they/them)

PhD Student in Chinese
PreDoctoral Instructor in Chinese

wmzhu@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM

GWN M226

Chinese, Funeral Rituals, Literature, Medieval, Philology, Ritual Texts, Stele Inscriptions

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