People | Asian Languages & Literature | University of Washington

Tetiana Andriiuk

MA Student in Japanese linguistics

tanitaan@uw.edu

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

Juan Felipe Arroyave

MA Student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

tommib@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30-2:30pm and by appointment

GWN M230

Japanese, Japanese to Spanish Translation, Literature, Premodern Japanese literature, The works of Natsume Soseki, Translation and Interpretation

Grace Barber

PhD Student in Asian Languages and Cultures

gbarber1@uw.edu

Japanese

John Carlyle

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

jtcarlyl@uw.edu

Chinese, Chinese dialects, Computational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Old Chinese, Philology, Phonology, Rime Books

Ruiming Cash

PhD Student in Chinese

rcash2@uw.edu

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

Liyao Chen

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese
PreDoctoral Instructor in Chinese

lc6113@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 3:30-4:30pm

GWN M226

Chinese, Historical Linguistics, Japanese, Korean, Philology, Textual Studies, Vietnamese, Writing Systems

Mingxi Chen

MA student in Asian Languages and Cultures

mxchen3@uw.edu

Chinese, Comparative Literature, Daoism, Japanese, Literature, Philosophy, Premodern Asian Studies

Nicole Cho

Teaching Assistant in Korean

hsc75@uw.edu

GWN M224

Education, Korean, Race and Ethnicity, Second Language Acquisition

Ying-Hsiu Chou

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

chouhsiu@uw.edu

Chinese, Digital Humanities, Film/Cinema, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Global and Transnational Studies, Literature, Popular Culture, Visual Culture

Avery Clare (Wanmin Zhu) (they/them)

PhD Student in Chinese

wmzhu@uw.edu

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

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

Jamie Ding

MA Student in Japanese literature

jding815@uw.edu

Japanese

Dana Fried

MA student in Asian Languages and Cultures

dfried3@uw.edu

Chinese, Culture, French literature and culture, Language Pedagogy, Literature, Second Language Acquisition, Translation and Interpretation

Yunhui Gao

PhD Student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

gyunhui@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursdays 3:00-4:00pm

GWN M226

Chinese, Chinese Dialectology, Comparative and historical syntax, Historical Linguistics, Language contact

Sarah Gelvin

MA student in Japanese literature

gelvins@uw.edu

Folklore and Mythology, Japanese, Literature

William Gershman

MA Student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese
GSA Book Sale Coordinator

wgersh@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 11:00am-12:00pm

GWN M230

Japanese, Japanese online culture, Language Pedagogy, Literature, Localization of Japanese Popular Media, Translation and Interpretation

Vishnupriya Goswami

MA Student in South Asian Languages and Literature
Vice-President, Asian L&L Graduate Student Association (GSA)
GSA Faculty Liaison

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

Gyeol Han

PhD Student in Chinese

gyeol@uw.edu

Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Etymology, Historical Linguistics, Linguistics, Philology, Premodern Asian Studies, Textual Studies, Writing Systems

Tzu-Lu (Lulu) Hung

PhD Student in Japanese literature
President, Asian L&L Graduate Student Association (GSA)

tzuluh@uw.edu

Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Literary Criticism, Literature, Postcolonial

Lisa Jiang

MA Student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

lisajsp@uw.edu

Office Hours: Thursdays 10:00-11:00am

GWN M230

Japanese, Japanese Media and Literature

Weilin Kao

MA student in Chinese

wkao2@uw.edu

Chinese, Language Pedagogy, Literature

Raechel Kundert

MA Student in Asian Languages and Cultures

raech525@uw.edu

Comparative Linguistics, Culture, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Language acquisition, Linguistics, Mongolian

Jonathan Laiman

MA Student in Buddhist Studies

jlaiman@uw.edu

Buddhist Manuscripts, Buddhist Studies, Early Buddhism, Meditation, Philology, Philosophy, Sanskrit

Mahnoor Lali

PhD student in South Asian
GSA Colloquium Coordinator

mlali@uw.edu

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

Grainger Lanneau

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

gl38@uw.edu

Chinese, Comparative Linguistics, Historical Phonology, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Philology, Southeast Asian, Translation and Interpretation, Vietnamese, Writing Systems

Han (Gloria) Lee

PhD Student in Chinese
PreDoctoral Instructor in Chinese

ghlee@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 3:00-4:00pm, Thursdays 1:00-2:00pm

GWN M226

Chinese, Historical Chinese phonology, Historical Linguistics

Xi (Milky) Li

MA student in Japanese

xli32@uw.edu

Chinese, Japanese, Literature, Premodern Asian Studies

Stephanie Liu

PhD Student in Chinese
GSA Book Sale Coordinator

hungyun@uw.edu

DEN 120

Chinese, Digital Humanities, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Poetry and Poetics

Nicholas Malik

MA Student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

nmalik06@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 10:00-11:00am

GWN M230

Culture, Japanese, Literature, Translation

Jordan Niver-Johnson

MA Student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

jniver@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30-2:30pm

GWN M230

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

Daniel Ofori-Dankwa

MA Student in Japanese literature

dkofori@uw.edu

Japanese, manga and comics theory, Twi language

Sam Patwell

MA Student in Chinese
GPSS Senator

spatwell@uw.edu

Chinese, Literature, Popular Culture, Speculative Fiction

Codi Reynolds

PhD student in Japanese literature

ccr10026@uw.edu

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

Anna Schnell

MA Student in Japanese literature

aks90@uw.edu

Children's Literature, Comics, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Japanese, Literature, manga and comics theory, Popular Culture, Queer Studies, Science Fiction

Aidan Seipke

MA Student in Japanese literature

awseipke@uw.edu

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

Zhifan Sheng

PhD Student in Chinese
PreDoctoral Instructor in Chinese

zfsheng@uw.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:30-4:30pm

GWN M226

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

Haruki Shimonagane

MA Student in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Japanese

hshimo@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30-2:30pm

GWN M230

Chinese, Intellectual History, Literature, Premodern Asian Studies

Jiwon Song

PhD Student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Korean

jwsong08@uw.edu

Office Hours: Fridays 11:30am-12:30pm

GWN M224

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

Micah Sprouffske

PhD student in Chinese

micahsp@uw.edu

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

Linjia Weng

PhD Student in Chinese

lynnn7@uw.edu

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

Sherry Xu

PhD Student in Japanese literature
Teaching Assistant in Japanese
Treasurer, Asian L&L Graduate Student Association (GSA)

jinyuexu@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:30-2:30pm

GWN M230

Japanese

Anjali Yadav

PhD Student in South Asian Languages and Literature

ayadav06@uw.edu

18th Century, Caste, Hindi, Historiography, Literature, Medieval Indian devotional literature, South Asian, Translation and Interpretation, Women's Writings

Xinyue Yu

MA student in Asian Languages and Cultures
Teaching Assistant in Korean
GPSS Senator
GSA Colloquium Coordinator
GSA Faculty Liaison

xyu2021@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 11:30am-12:30pm

GWN M224

Comparative Literature, Digital Humanities, East Asian, Korean, Linguistics, Literature, Popular Culture

Ben Zhang

PhD student in Chinese

benzh@uw.edu

Ancient Chinese phonology, Chinese, Dialectology, Etymology, Historical Linguistics, Old Chinese morphology, Paleography, Philology

Wenyue (Evangeline) Zhang

MA Student in Japanese linguistics

akagitan@uw.edu

Culture, Japanese, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Literature

Jieyu Zhou

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese
GSA Faculty Liaison

jzhou4@uw.edu

Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:00-2:00pm

GWN M226

Bilingualism and Biliteracy, Chinese, Chinese Linguistics, First and Second Language Acquisition, Heritage Chinese

Shiwei Zhou

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese
Teaching Assistant in Chinese

zhousw23@uw.edu

Office Hours: Mondays 11:00am-12:00pm

GWN M226

Chinese, Intellectual History, Literature, Translation and Interpretation

Xi Zhu

Doctoral Candidate in Chinese

xizhu@uw.edu

Chinese, Early Chinese texts, Early Medieval Chinese Poetry, Manuscript study

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