Faculty

          David C. Schaberg, Chair

          George E. Dutton, Vice Chair

          Natasha Heller, Director of Undergraduate Studies

          Namhee Lee, Director of Graduate Studies

Asian Religions and Buddhist Studies Program:

William M. Bodiford, Professor
          Japanese Religions, Chinese and Japanese Buddhism

Robert E. Buswell, Professor
          Korean Culture, Buddhist Studies

Natasha Heller, Assistant Professor
          Chinese Religions, Chinese Buddhism

Jongmyung Kim, Visiting Associate Professor
          Korean Buddhism

Sung-deuk Oak, Assistant Professor
          Korean Christianity

Gregory R. Schopen, Professor
          South Asian Religions, Buddhist Studies

Jonathan A. Silk, Associate Professor
          Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan Buddhism

Richard E. Strassberg, Professor
          Chinese Literature and Mythology

Timothy R. Tangherlini, Professor
          Korean Folklore and Popular Religion

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Asian Linguistics Program:

Shoichi Iwasaki, Professor
          Functional Linguistics, Language Program Coordinator for Japanese

Sung-Ock Sohn, Professor
          Discourse Linguistics, Pedagogy, Language Program Coordinator for Korean

Hongyin Tao, Professor
          Functional Linguistics, Language Program Coordinator for Chinese

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Chinese Studies Program:

Jack W. Chen, Assistant Professor
          Medieval Chinese Literature; Poetry and Poetics

Robert Y. Chi, Assistant Professor
          Chinese Cinema

Hung-hsiang Chou, Associate Professor
          Chinese Archaeology

Natasha Heller, Assistant Professor
          Chinese Religions, Chinese Buddhism

Theodore D. Huters, Professor
          Modern Chinese Literature

Min Li, Assistant Professor
          Chinese Archaeology

David C. Schaberg, Professor
          Classical Chinese Thought and Poetry

Shu-mei Shih, Professor
          Twentieth Century Chinese and Sinophone Literature

Richard E. Strassberg, Professor
          Classical Chinese Drama and Fiction, Mythology

Hongyin Tao, Professor
          Functional Linguistics, Language Program Coordinator for Chinese

          Lecturers in Chinese Language

               Liancheng Chief

               Michelle Fu Smith

               Yan Shen

               Xiaoxin Sun

               Yuwen Yao

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Japanese Studies Program:

Noriko Akatsuka, Professor Emeritus
          Discourse Linguistics

William M. Bodiford, Professor
          Japanese Religions, Chinese and Japanese Buddhism

Torquil Duthie, Assistant Professor
          Early and Classical Japanese Literature

Shoichi Iwasaki, Professor
          Functional Linguistics, Language Program Coordinator for Japanese

Seiji M. Lippit, Associate Professor
          Modern Japanese Literature

Michael F. Marra, Professor
          Japanese Literature, Aesthetics, and Hermeneutics

Herbert E. Plutschow, Professor Emeritus
          Japanese Civilization and Literature

          Lecturers in Japanese

               Jennifer Cullen, Visiting

               Asako Hayashi Takakura

               Eishi Ikeda

               Shimako Iwasaki

               Yumiko Kawanishi

               Yoko Nogami

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Korean Studies Program:

Robert E. Buswell, Professor
          Korean Culture, Buddhist Studies

John B. Duncan, Professor
          Korean Civilization, History, and Thought

Jongmyung Kim, Visiting Associate Professor
          Korean Buddhism

Namhee Lee, Associate Professor
          Modern Korean History

Peter H. Lee, Professor Emeritus
          Korean Civilization and Literature

Sang Oak Lee, Visiting Professor
          Korean Literature

Sung-deuk Oak, Assistant Professor
          Korean Christianity

Sung-Ock Sohn, Professor
          Discourse Linguistics, Pedagogy, Language Program Coordinator for Korean

Timothy R. Tangherlini, Professor
          Korean Folklore and Popular Religion

          Lecturers in Korean Language

               Jane Choi

               Jae-Eun Im

               Mary Kim

               Jaeeun Yoon

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South and Southeast Asian Studies Program:

Gyanam Mahajan, Lecturer
          Hindi, Language Program Coordinator for South & Southeast Asia

George E. Dutton, Associate Professor
          Southeast Asian Culture

Stephanie W. Jamison, Professor
          Indo-Iranian Literatures

Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo, Assistant Professor
          Vietnamese History

Hartmut E. F. Scharfe, Professor Emeritus
          Sanskrit, Pali, and Indic

Gregory R. Schopen, Professor
          South Asian Religions, Buddhist Studies

Jonathan A. Silk, Associate Professor
          Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan Buddhism

          Lecturers in South and Southeast Asian Languages

               Supa Angkurawaranon (Thai)

               Chuc V. Bui (Vietnamese)

               Nenita P. Domingo (Filipino/Tagalog)

               Thu-Ba Nguyen Hoai (Vietnamese)

               Juliana Wijaya (Indonesian)

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