Asian Studies East Asia
Ina Asim
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, History, Medieval Studies
Email: inaasim@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6161
Office: 317 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Steven Brown
Professor of Comparative Literature
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Comparative Literature
Email: stb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4016
Office: 354 PLC, 1249 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: 3:30-5:30 on Tuesday (by appt.) via Zoom.
Research Interests: posthumanism, horror cinema, Surrealist film and animation, sound design in film, Japanese popular culture, and critical theory.
Daniel Buck
Associate Professor
Asian Studies, Food Studies, Geography, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: danielb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2353
Office: 109 Condon Hall, 1251 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1251
Office Hours: M 12-1:30pm, or by appointment
Research Interests: Geography/Asian Studies, Economic Geography, Development, Political Economy, Environment/Society, East Asia and China.
Roy Chan
Associate Professor, Chinese Literature
Director of Graduate Studies, East Asian Languages & Literatures
Comparative Literature, East Asian Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: rbc@uoregon.edu
Office: 426 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wednesdays 10:00am-12:00 pm (email in advance appreciated)
Research Interests: Modern Chinese and Russian Literatures, Critical Theory, Formalism, Affect Studies, Sociolinguistic Literary Criticism
Rachel DiNitto
Professor, Japanese Literature
Director, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: rdinitto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4012
Office: 301 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Research Interests: Japanese literature, nuclear issues, environmental humanities
Maram Epstein
Professor, Chinese Literature
VP, United Academics
Chinese, East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: maram@uoregon.edu
Office: 303 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1130-12:30 / Th 3:30-4:30 n Gerlinger 110
Alisa Freedman
Professor, Japanese Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages, Translation Studies
Email: alisaf@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-979-7794
Office: 404 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Fridays, 10:30 am -12:00 pm on Zoom, before and after classes, and by appointment. Please email me to make an appointment (alisaf@uoregon.edu)
Research Interests: Cross-cultural,transnational Asian Studies; cultural studies; intersectional gender studies; popular culture; media studies; biographies & memoirs; youth culture; modern Japanese literature; digital culture; urban studies; translation; academic publishing
Mariachiara Gasparini
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies (GCMS)
History Art & Arch
Email: chiarag@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Chinese and Central Asian Art and Architecture, Asian Art, Silk Road Studies, Asian Textiles, Buddhist Art, Sino-Iranian and Turko-Mongol Interactions
Andrew Goble
Professor
History, Medieval Studies
Email: platypus@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4800
Office: 361 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Spring 2025 Tuesday and Wednesday 1100-1300.
Research Interests: Japan
Bryna Goodman
Professor Emerita
History
Email: bgoodman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4825
Office: 331 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Research Interests: China
Alison Groppe
Associate Professor, Chinese Literature
Chinese Sector Representative
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: amgroppe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7015
Office: 317 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Office Hours: Fall 2025: Wednesdays 3-4pm; Fridays (starting 10/10/25) 11am-12pm; by appointment. Email for Zoom link.
Luke Habberstad
Associate Professor, Early Chinese Literature and Religion
Program Head & Director of Asian Studies Program
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, Religious Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Phone: 541-346-4006
Office: 401 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Office Hours: Thursdays, 1:30-3:30 pm
Annelise Heinz
Associate Professor
History
Email: heinzam@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4827
Office: 355 McKenzie Hall, 1288 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1288
Office Hours: Tuesdays 2-3pm
Research Interests: Histories of U.S. Women and Gender; Sexuality and LGBTQ History; Race & Ethnicity; Consumerism; Transpacific History
Kaori Idemaru
Professor, Japanese Linguistics
East Asian Languages and Literature, Department Head
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, Language Teaching Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: idemaru@uoregon.edu
Office: 302 Friendly Hall, 1248 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Office Hours: 4:00-5:00 Monday<br />
1:00-2:00 Wednesday
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Professor
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: zjingsch@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4023
Office: 318 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:00-3:30PM and by appointment
Research Interests: Cognitive Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Masami Kawai
Assistant Professor
Cinema Studies
Email: mkawai@uoregon.edu
Office: 254 PLC, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-6223
Research Interests: Directing, Screenwriting, Producing, and Independent Filmmaking
Dong Hoon Kim
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies
Cinema Studies
Email: donghoon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4108
Office: 104 PLC, 6223 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-6223
Office Hours: On Leave (Fall 2025-Winter 2026)
Jina Kim
Associate Professor, Korean Literature & Culture
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: jinak@uoregon.edu
Office: 403 Friendly Hall, 1248 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Office Hours: Fall 2023:Friday 12:00 (Noon)-2:00 pm Global Scholars Hall 105
Research Interests: Modern Korean literature, Comparative literature, Sound studies, Radio studies, Transmedia, Korean diaspora
Nayoung Kwon
Associate Professor, Korean Linguistics
Korean Sector Representative
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: nkwon@uoregon.edu
Gyoung-Ah Lee
Professor
Anthropology, Asian Studies, Food Studies
Email: galee@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5077
Office: 254 Condon Hall
Office Hours: Thur 2-4pm
Research Interests: Environmental archaeology, paleoethnobotany, ethnobotany, origins of agriculture, East Asian archaeology