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Core Faculty

Yukie Aida

Associate Professor of Instruction

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

Mansi Bajaj

Assistant Professor of Instruction

mansi.bajaj@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6045 |
WCH 5.112

Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Delhi

Interests: Hindi Language, Language Teaching, Curriculum Development, Using Assessment as a Learning Tool, Using Social Media and Bollywood in a Language Classroom, Sensitization of Society through Language Learning, Phonology, Stress Placement, Tones

Anandakrishnan Balakrishnan

Assistant Professor of Instruction

akanand01@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6045 |
WCH 5.112

Interests: Tamil Language

Kirsten Cather

Associate Professor/ Director of Center for East Asian Studies

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

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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/ Director of Center for Taiwan Studies

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

Education: Ph.D., Stanford University

Interests: Chinese Film and Literature

Jeanette C Chen

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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

Interests: Chinese Language

Chikako H Cooke

Assistant Professor of Instruction

hirayama_cooke@austin.utexas.edu |
WCH 5.104A

Education: MA, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Interests: Japanese Language Pedagogy, Extensive Reading, Personal Traits; Mindfulness in Education

Donald R. Davis, Jr.

Professor & Chair, Department of Asian Studies

drdj@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5811 |
WCH 4.134A

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

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

Kaori Duffey

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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

Interests: Japanese Language

Oliver Freiberger

Professor

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

Education: Ph.D., Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Interests: Indian Buddhism | Asceticism | Comparison in the Study of Religion | Religious Boundary-Making

Andrea Gutierrez

Assistant Professor of Instruction

andreagutierrez@utexas.edu

Education: PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Shahnaz Hassan

Associate Professor of Instruction

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

Education: BA, University of the Punjab

Interests: Urdu Language & Literature, Classical & Modern Urdu Poetry & Prose, Film, Urdu & Hindi Media (Pakistani Urdu dramas, Bollywood), Language Teaching, Female Voices in Urdu Literature, Gender Studies.

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

Associate Professor of Instruction

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

Education: Ph.D., The University of Texas

Interests: Chinese Language Pedagogy

Brian Hurley

Assistant Professor

brian.hurley@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6048 |
WCH 4.104E

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Interests: Japanese Literature, Close Reading, Intellectual History, and Economics

Syed Akbar Hyder

Associate Professor

akbarhyder@utexas.edu |
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

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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

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

Interests: Japanese Second Language Acquisition and Japanese Language Pedagogy

Eun Joo Kim

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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

Education: BA, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

Interests: Korean Language

Mina Kim

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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

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

Interests: Korean Language and Linguistics, Korean Language Pedagogy

Chiu-Mi Lai

Professor of Instruction

cmlai@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-5811 (DEPT.) |
WCH 4.114

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

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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.

Interests: Mandarin Chinese Language

Yongfeng Liu

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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

Interests: Chinese Language

Nabanjan Maitra

Assistant Professor of Instruction

nabanjan.maitra@austin.utexas.edu |
WCH 5.104 C

Education: PhD, University of Chicago

Interests: Sanskrit | Religious Identity-Formation and Institutions | Discourses of Religious Power | Reinventions of Traditions

Darsana Manayathu Sasi

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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

Education: PhD, University of Kerala

Interests: Malayalam Language

Alice McCoy-Bae

Assistant Professor of Instruction

mccoy-bae@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-1843 |
WCH 5.136

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

Associate 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; Media, Tourism and Place; Korean Popular Culture

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

Shelby Oxenford

Lecturer

shelby.oxenford@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6027 |
WCH 4.116

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

Dalpat Rajpurohit

Assistant Professor

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

Education: PhD, Presidency University, Kolkata

Interests: Hindi Language; Literary and Religious Cultures of Early Modern India; Dādū Panth and Poet-Saint Sundardās (1596-1689); Modern Hindi Literature; Dalit autobiographies

Martha Selby

(on leave)

Professor

mas@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6040 |
WCH 4.104E

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.

Gautami Shah

Associate Professor of Instruction

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

Education: MS, Purdue University

Interests: Issues of Inclusivity, Translanguaging and Language Pedagogy; Contemporary South Asian Literature and Popular Culture (Specifically Bollywood) with a Focus on Communal Conflicts, Gender Issues, Caste, Religion and Immigrant Experiences; Program and Curriculum Development; and Innovative Use of Technology in Language Teaching

Ahmed Shamim

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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

Education: Ph.D., City University of New York

Interests: His research interests include Endangered Language Documentation and Description, Phonology, Morphology, Grammar, and Language Policies and Ideologies. He is currently working on a morphophonological description of Koda, an endangered Munda language of Bangladesh.

Naoko Suito

Associate Professor of Instruction

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

Saori Suto

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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

Education: MA, California State University, Long Beach

Interests: Content-Based Language Learning; instruction for teaching Japanese as a heritage language (JHL) and foreign language (JFL)

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

Assistant Professor of Instruction

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

Education: MA, University of Oregon

Interests: Japanese Language and Linguistics; Pedagogy

Wen-Hua Teng

Associate Professor of Instruction

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

Luke Waring

Assistant Professor

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

Education: Ph.D., Princeton University

Interests: Early Chinese Literature and Cultural History (1250 BCE-220 CE)

Shohko Yanagisawa

Assistant Professor of Instruction

syanagisawa@utexas.edu |
512-475-6045 |
WCH 5.130

Education: M.A., Purdue University

Interests: Japanese Language

Affiliate Faculty

Kamran Asdar Ali

Professor

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

Education: Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Interests: Gender, Sexuality, Health, Development, Labor History, Political Economy; Post-Colonialism; Urban Social Histories, Popular Culture, Historiography, Memory, Liberalism, Middle East; South Asia (Egypt, Pakistan)

Indrani Chatterjee

Professor

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

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

Wenhong Chen

Associate Professor of Media Studies and Sociology Co-director, Media and Entertainment Industries Program

wenhong.chen@austin.utexas.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto

Interests: Digital Media Technologies in Multiethnic, Entrepreneurial, and Civic Settings

Adam Clulow

Professor

adam.clulow@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-4358 |
Garrison Hall 2.104A

Education: Ph.D., 2008, Columbia University

Interests: Early Modern Japanese History, Maritime History, Southeast Asian History, Transnational History, European overseas expansion, Digital Humanities

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

Interests: Literacy, Language, Multicultural Education, New Media and Globalization.

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: PhD, UCLA, Department of History

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.

Madhavi Mallapragada

Associate Professor

madhavim@austin.utexas.edu |
512 471 9239 |
CMA 5.148

Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Interests: Cultural Studies of Race and Ethnicity in Media, Asian Americans in/and Media, Online Cultures, Immigration and Transnationalism, and Media Industries

Stephen Phillips

Professor

stephen_phillips@utexas.edu |
512-471-5080 |
WAG 301

Education: PhD, Harvard University

Interests: Indian Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion; Theory of Value

Mark Ravina

Professor

mark.ravina@austin.utexas.edu |
GAR

Education: Ph.D. Stanford University, 1991, A.B. Columbia University, 1983

Interests: Japanese History

Joseph Schaub

(on leave)

Lecturer

joseph.schaub@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6048 |
WCH 5.103

Education: Ph.D, University of Maryland, College Park

Interests: Japanese Popular Culture

Snehal Shingavi

Associate Professor

snehal.shingavi@utexas.edu

Education: PhD, University of California-Berkeley

Interests: Anglophone South Asian literature, 20th Century Literature, Hindi/Urdu Literature, Literature in Translation and Translation Theory, Theories of “The Nation” and/or Postcolonialism, Classical Marxism, Ethnic and Third World Literature, Asian American Literature

Emeritus or Retired

Joel Brereton

Professor Emeritus

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

Education: PhD, Yale University

Interests: Sanskrit Language; Religious Studies, Asian Religions, Vedic Studies

James Brow

Professor Emeritus

jbrow@mail.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, University of Washington

Kathryn Hansen

Professor Emeritus

kgh@austin.utexas.edu

Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley

Interests: History of Theatrical Practices in South Asia, Gender and Performance, South Asian Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern Period), South Asian (Hindi, Urdu), Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Immigration