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Core Faculty

Yukie Aida

Senior Lecturer

aiday@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6049 |
WCH 5.110

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Japanese language pedagogy / students beliefs about their own language performances

Joel Brereton

Professor

jpb@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6024 |
WCH 4.122

Education: PhD, Yale University

Interests: Sanskrit; Religious studies, Asian religions, Vedic studies

Kirsten Cather

(on leave)

Associate Professor

kcather@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0031 |
WCH 4.112

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Interests: modern Japanese literature and film; censorship, suicide, and death in modern Japan; adaptations; translation theory and practice

Chih-Wei (Elsa) Chang

Lecturer

elsa.chang@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6041 |
WCH 5.116

Education: MA, Univeristy of Texas at Austin

Interests: Chinese language

Sung-Sheng (Yvonne) Chang

Professor

yvonne@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6036 |
WCH 4.124

Education: Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests: Chinese film and literature

Jeanette C Chen

Lecturer

jeanettechen@utexas.edu |
512-475-6041 |
WCH 5.116

Interests: Languages

Chikako H Cooke

Lecturer

hirayama_cooke@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6035 |
WCH 5.104A

Interests: pedagogy

Donald R. Davis, Jr.

Professor

drdj@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7921 |
WCH 4.114

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Sanskrit; Dharmaśāstra; Law and Religion; Medieval India; Malayalam

Kaori Duffey

Lecturer

kaorid@utexas.edu |
512-471-1843 |
WCH 5.136

Oliver Freiberger

Associate Professor

of@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8239 |
WCH 4.104A

Education: PhD, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Interests: Indian Buddhism | asceticism | comparison in the study of religion | religious boundary-making

Shahnaz Hassan

Senior Lecturer

snzhasan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0304 |
WCH Hindi Urdu Flagship 4.104F

Education: BA, University of the Punjab

Interests: Urdu Language and Literature

Junko Hatanaka

Lecturer

jhatanaka@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6042 |
WCH 5.124

Education: MA in Japanese, MS in Rhetoric and Technical Communications, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michigan Technological University

Heather Hindman

Associate Professor

h.hindman@mail.utexas.edu |
512-471-1667 |
WCH 4.104C

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests: Critical development, entrepreneurialism, expatriate communities, social theory, global labor and gender

Camilla H Hsieh

Senior Lecturer

camilla@utexas.edu |
512-475-6046 |
WCH 5.132

Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas

Interests: Chinese language pedagogy

S. Akbar Hyder

(on leave)

Associate Professor

syedakbarhyder@gmail.com |
512-471-1302 |
WCH 4.130

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Interests: Islam in South Asia, Urdu language and literature, Aesthetics in South Asian and the Middle East.

Akemi Katayama

Lecturer

akataya@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-8497 |
WCH 5.105

Education: MA, 2012, MA, 1996, The University of Alberta, Portland State University

Interests: Second language acquisition and language pedagogy

Eun Joo Kim

Lecturer

kim.eunjoo@austin.utexas.edu |
WCH 5.104B

Education: BA, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Mina Kim

Lecturer

mina.kim@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6045 |
WCH 5.130

Education: M.A, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Interests: Korean language and lingustics, Korean language pedagogy

Chiu-Mi Lai

Distinguished Senior Lecturer

cmlai@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5811 (DEPT.) |
WCH 5.112

Education: Ph.D., University of Washington

Janice Leoshko

Associate Professor

jleoshko@austin.utexas.edu |
232-2581 |
DFA 2.130

Education: PhD, Ohio State University

Interests: South and Southeast Asian art history and Buddhist art

Yi-Chun Lin

Lecturer

yichunlin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6042 |
WCH 5.124

Education: M.A., Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, National Taiwan Normal University.

Yongfeng Liu

Lecturer

yongfengliu@utexas.edu |
512-475-6043 |
WCH 5.126

Claire Maes

Lecturer

claire.maes@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7965 |
WCH 5.104C

Education: PhD, Ghent University, Belgium

Interests: Indian Buddhism; Jainism; Monasticism

Darsana Manayathu Sasi

Lecturer

darsana@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6031 |
WCH 4.104E

Education: PhD, University of Kerala

Timsal Masud

Lecturer

timsal.masud@austin.utexas.edu |
737 400 2976 |
WCH 4.104D

Education: PhD, Lucknow University

Interests: Urdu literature; Indo-Islamic Culture; Awadh; Marsiya; Urdu newspaper; Urdu Podcast; Photography

Alice McCoy-Bae

Lecturer

mccoy-bae@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6045 |
WCH 5.130

Education: M.S., The University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Korean Language, Korean language pedagogy, film representations of a social reality in Korea, women and gender issues in Korea, Korean food culture, and social media and its impact on learning Korean

Youjeong Oh

Assistant Professor

youjeong@utexas.edu |
512-475-6032 |
WCH 5.114

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Interests: Urban processes in Korea and East Asia; Development and Social Movement; Korean popular culture; Gender and space

Robert M Oppenheim

Professor

rmo@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7279 |
WCH 5.134

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Interests: Korean anthropology and history; science/tech/society; heritage; objects/materiality; history of anthropology

Dalpat Rajpurohit

Assistant Professor

drajpurohit@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1219 |
WCH 4.104B

Education: PhD, Presidency University

Interests: Hindi; Literary traditions of early modern north India; Devotional and courtly Hindi literature, Brajbhasha and Awadhi poetics

Martha Selby

Department Chair and Professor

mas@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6040 |
WCH 4.134A

Education: PhD, University of Chicago

Interests: Representations of women, birth, and disease in classical Indian medicine. Sanskrit poetry and poetics, Prakrit and Old Tamil poetry, modern Tamil fiction, and Sanskrit medical literature.

Arun Selvan

Senior Lecturer

arun.selvan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6048 |
WCH 5.103

Education: PhD Linguistics, Madurai Kamaraj University

Interests: Tamil language, Linguistics and Culture, Dravidian Studies, Tamil Cinema and Politics, Translation and Comparative Linguistics

Gautami Shah

Senior Lecturer

gshah@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6033 |
WCH 4.104GA

Education: MS, Purdue University

Interests: Language pedagogy (Hindi); Contemporary South Asian literature with a focus on communal conflicts, gender issues, caste, religion and immigrant experiences; Curriculum development; Innovative use of technology in language teaching; Program development; Less commonly taught languages

Ahmed Shamim

Lecturer

ahmedshamim@utexas.edu |
512-471-0304 |
4.104G

Education: MA, City University of New York

Naoko Suito

Senior Lecturer

n.suito@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6029 |
WCH 4.110

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas

Interests: Japanese language; Curriculum and Instruction, Instructional Technology

Cynthia Talbot

Professor

ctalbot@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 475-7229 |
GAR 3.406

Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests: Medieval and early modern history of South Asia

Midori Tanaka

Lecturer

midori@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7104 |
WCH 5.138

Education: MA, University of Oregon

Interests: Japanese language and linguistics; pedagogy

Wen-Hua Teng

Senior Lecturer

whteng@utexas.edu |
512-475-6047 |
WCH 5.128

Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Pedagogical grammar of Chinese; curriculum design; technology-enhanced CFL pedagogy

Chien-hsin Tsai

(on leave)

Associate Professor

tsai@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1302 |
WCH 4.130

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University

Affiliate Faculty

Kamran Asdar Ali

Professor

asdar@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-7531, 471-3550 |
SAC 5.126

Education: PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Indrani Chatterjee

Professor

ichatterjee@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7252 |
GAR 3.412

Education: PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Lalitha Gopalan

Associate Professor

lalitha.gopalan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4071 |
CMA 6.118

Education: PhD, University of Rochester

Sumit Guha

Professor

sguha@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-7236 |
GAR 2.140

Education: PhD, University of Cambridge

Madeline Y. Hsu

Professor; Department of History

myhsu@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-9303 |
GAR 3.404

Education: Ph.D., Yale University

Interests: Asian American studies, migration, Cold War, transnationalism, and ethnic studies

Grace MyHyun Kim

Assistant Professor

grace@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-4861 |
SZB 334B

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Shanti Kumar

Associate Professor

shantikumar@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-3498 |
CMA 5.124

Education: PhD, Indiana University-Bloomington

Huaiyin Li

Professor, Director of Center for East Asian Studies

hli@utexas.edu |
512-475-7910 |
GAR 3.202

Education: Ph.D., 2000, University of California, Los Angeles

Interests: Modern Chinese history; Contemporary Chinese economy, society, and politics; imperial China; gender and family; agrarian studies; Chinese culture and religions; and comparative studies of development and globalization.

Patricia Maclachlan

Professor of Government and Asian Studies; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies

pmaclachlan@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1724 |
BAT 3.150

Education: Ph.D., Columbia University

Interests: Interest group behavior in Japan; Japanese agricultural politics; Japanese postal politics and reform; consumerism in advanced industrial democracies; comparative political institutions.