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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

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 boundaries

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

Associate Professor

syedakbarhyder@gmail.com |
512-475-6031 |
WCH 4.104E

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

Hana Kawashima Ransom

Lecturer

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

Education: MEd, Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Austin

Interests: Translation, Localization, Globalization, Curriculum Design, eLearning

Eun Joo Kim

Lecturer

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

Education: BA, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea

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 |
512-475-6043 |
WCH 5.126

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

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

Kyung Park

Senior Lecturer

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

Education: MA, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

Interests: Korean Language

Sang-Hoon Park

Lecturer

shoony@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6044 |
WCH 5.120A

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

Dalpat Rajpurohit

Assistant Professor

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

Education: MPhil, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

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, and Sanskrit medical literature.

Arun Selvan

Lecturer

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

Education: PhD in Linguistics, Madurai Kamaraj Univeristy

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

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

Associate Professor

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

Education: Ph.D., Columbia University

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