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Asian Languages & Cultures Faculty Listing
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Professor Donald Lopez, Jr., Chair
Academics and Requirements
Professors
Madhav Deshpande, Sanskrit language, literature, & linguistics
Nancy K. Florida, Indonesian and Javanese Studies
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; Arthur E. Link Distinguished University Professor of Buddhist Studies), Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
Abé Mark Nornes, Asian Cinema
Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, Pre-modern Japanese literature, particularly poetry, criticism, and Heian prose
Xiaobing Tang (Helmut F. Stern Professor of Modern Chinese Studies), Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and visual culture; realism and modernism
Associate Professors
William H. Baxter, III (ALC/Linguistics), Chinese language and linguistics
Miranda Brown, Early Chinese culture
Kevin Gray Carr, Japanese Art
Maki Fukuoka, Japanese humanities, history of photography & visual culture
Arvind-Pal S. Mandair (Tara Singh and Balwant Kaur Chattha and Gurbax Singh and Kirpal Kaur Brar Sikh Studies Professor), Sikh Studies
Christi Merrill, Modern South Asian literature
David Rolston, Traditional Chinese fiction and drama, particularly traditional fiction criticism and Peking Opera
Jonathan Zwicker, Modern Japanese literature
Assistant Professors
Juhn Ahn, Buddhism and Korean Studies
Micah Auerback, Japanese religions & Korean Buddhism
Varuni Bhatia, Hindu and South Asian Studies
Benjamin Brose, Chinese Buddhism
Deirdre de la Cruz, Philippine Studies
Youngju Ryu, Modern Korean literature
Lecturers
Abhisheka, Hindi language
Agustini, Indonesian language
Ekhteyar Ali, Urdu language
Richard Atienza, Filipino language
Qinghai Chen, Chinese language
Kenji Endo, Japanese language
Pinderjeet Gill, Hindi and Punjabi language
Laura Grande, Chinese language
Karen Gu, Chinese Language
Sangkyung Han, Korean language
Hunjin Jung, Korean language
Junko Kondo, Japanese language
Montatip Krishnamra, Thai language
Jinyi Li, Chinese Language
Qian Liu, Chinese language
Wei Liu, Chinese language
Yoshihiro Mochizuki, Japanese language
Thuy-Anh Nguyen, Vietnamese language
Mayumi Oka, Japanese language
Kyongmi Park, Korean language
Yoshimi Sakakibara, Japanese language
Mohammad Tahsin Siddiqi, Hindi and Urdu language
Ayaka Sogabe, Japanese language
Sonam Tsering, Tibetan language
Satako Tsuda-Petty, Japanese language
Masae Yasuda, Japanese language
Haiqing Yin, Chinese language
Qiuli Zhao, Chinese language
Professors Emeriti
Kenneth J. Dewoskin, Early Chinese narrative literature, criticism, and aesthetics
Yi-tsi Feuerwerker (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Chinese fiction and literary criticism
Luis O. Gómez (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor) Buddhist religion and philosophy
Peter Hook, Indo-Aryan languages and linguistics
Ken K. Ito, Modern Japanese literature, particularly Meiji and Taisho fiction
Shuen-fu Lin, Pre-modern Chinese literature, especially classical poetry and poetics