Research

Faculty in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature pursue their study of Asian languages and cultures primarily through the medium of text, but they represent a wide range of disciplinary interests, including linguistics, philosophy, history, literature, visual arts, and cultural studies. They participate in collaborative research projects that extend throughout the UW community and beyond.

Recent Research

Richard G. Salomon, Collett Cox, Tim Lenz, Chanida Jantrasrisalai, Qian Lin, Fei Zhao, Michael Skinner. The Early Buddhist Manuscript Project. 1996-.
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Pauwels, Heidi. 2018d Sītā. In Mandakranta Bose, ed. The Oxford History of Hinduism: The Goddess. 147–172. Oxford: OUP.
Cho, Heekyoung. 2024. “Blog Serials: Digital Literature, Seriality, Readerly Performativity.” Journal of Korean Studies 29, no. 2 (October): 273-301.
Zhifan Sheng. "Tianyi and International Feminism in the Age of Early Globalization." Transnational Asia 6, no. 1 (September 2024). https://doi.org/10.25615/ta.v6i1.99.
Pace, A. Lü, C., Zhou, J. & Guo, L. (2024). Narrative skills in Mandarin–English dual language immersion learners. Applied Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amae013
A perfectly imperfect tea bowl. Zen Rial/Moment via Getty Images
Atkins, Paul. "What is the Japanese 'wabi-sabi' aesthetic actually about? 'Miserable tea' and loneliness, for starters." The Conversation, March 12, 2024. 
Masuda, Kyoko, Ohta, Amy Snyder and Tsujihara, Rie (under contract, to appear in 2024). Concept-Based Language Instruction: Usage-based Linguistics and Sociocultural Theory in Teaching Japanese. Routledge.
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Pauwels, H. 2023b. Mīrā’s Iconography: From Miniature to Movie. In: Karen Pechilis and Amy-Ruth Holt, eds. Devotional Visualities: Seeing Bhakti in Indic Material Cultures. 285–309. London: Bloomsbury Academic 2023
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Pauwels, H. (with Purnima Dhavan). 2023. Crafting Literary Urdu: Mirzā Ḥātim’s engagement with Valī Dakhanī. Modern Asian Studies 57.3: 711–39 (Cambridge)
Cho, Heekyoung. 2023. “Chekhov in East Asia.” In Chekhov in Context, edited by Yuri Corrigan,  244-250. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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