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
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
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
Office Hours: W 1-3 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
Email: rbc@uoregon.edu
Office: 426 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Tuesdays 1:00pm-3:00 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 of Undergraduate Studies (DUS), East Asian Languages & Literatures
East Asian Languages
Email: rdinitto@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4012
Office: 301 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Monday 3:00-5:00 or by appointment. Zoom: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/3687608212
Research Interests: Japanese literature, nuclear issues, environmental humanities
Maram Epstein
Professor, Chinese Literature
Director, Center for Asian Pacific Studies
Chinese, East Asian Languages
Email: maram@uoregon.edu
Office: 303 Friendly Hall
Alisa Freedman
Professor, Japanese Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender
Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, East Asian Languages, Translation Studies
Email: alisaf@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-979-7794
Office: 404 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fridays, 10:30-12:00 on Zoom (Please email for an appointment.)
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
Office: 217 Lawrence Hall
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
Office Hours: Winter 23, Monday and Wednesday 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Research Interests: Japan
Bryna Goodman
Professor Emerita
History
Email: bgoodman@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4825
Office: 331 McKenzie Hall
Research Interests: China
Alison Groppe
Associate Professor, Chinese Literature
Chinese Sector Representative
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Email: amgroppe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7015
Office: 317 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays 3-4pm on Zoom (email for link); Tuesdays 4-5pm, FR317
Luke Habberstad
Associate Professor, Early Chinese Literature and Religion
Program Head & Director of Asian Studies Program
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, Religious Studies
Email: lukehabb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4006
Office: 401 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2-4 pm
Annelise Heinz
Associate Professor
History
Email: heinzam@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4827
Office: 355 McKenzie Hall
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
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, Language Teaching Studies
Email: idemaru@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3551
Office: 302 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 14:00-16:00 Tuesday
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
Professor
East Asian Languages
Email: zjingsch@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4023
Office: 318 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesday 10AM-12PM
Research Interests: Cognitive Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Masami Kawai
Assistant Professor
Cinema Studies Program
Email: mkawai@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8141
Office: 254 PLC
Research Interests: Directing, Screenwriting, Producing, and Independent Filmmaking
Dong Hoon Kim
Associate Professor of Cinema Studies
Cinema Studies Program
Email: donghoon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4108
Office: 104 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 24: Fridays 1-2:30p.m. or by appointment
Jina Kim
Associate Professor, Korean Literature & Culture
East Asian Languages
Email: jinak@uoregon.edu
Office: 403 Friendly Hall
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
Email: nkwon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4179
Office: Friendly Hall 425
Gyoung-Ah Lee
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
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
Susanna Lim
Associate Professor of Literature, Russian Studies, and Korean Studies
Director of REEES Graduate Studies
College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Global Studies, Korean, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
Email: susannal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0691
Office: 1715 Franklin Blvd., Rm 101
Research Interests: Korean Studies, Korean Literature, Korean Popular Culture, Race Studies, Race in South Korea, Russian Studies, Koryo Saram, Diaspora, Post-colonialism
HyeRyoung Ok
Instructor
Cinema Studies Program, Digital Humanities
Email: hok@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7644
Office: 245 PLC
Office Hours: Spring 24: Tuesdays 11-1pm
Roxann Prazniak
Professor
Robert D. Clark Honors College
Clark Honors College
Email: prazniak@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3345
Office: 310 Chapman Hall
Office Hours: Wednesday and Friday 3:30 - 5:30
Eric Priest
Professor
Asian Studies, Law, Law-JD
Email: priest@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0414
Office: 330B Knight Law Center
Jeff Schroeder
Associate Professor
Religious Studies Advisor
Religious Studies
Email: jschroeder12@gmail.com
Phone: 541-346-4165
Office: 332 Susan Campbell
Research Interests: history of Buddhism in 19th- and 20th-century Japan, especially of the Jōdo Shin sect; Buddhism and World War II; Buddhism, science, and philosophy; democratization of Buddhist institutions; experimental Buddhist communities
Xiaobo Su
Professor
Asian Studies, Climate Studies, Geography
Email: xiaobo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4568
Office: 175 Condon Hall
Research Interests: Tourism and urban development, international political economy, China and Southeast Asia
Ying Tan
Associate Professor
Email: tanying@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1416
Office: 102 Millrace 1
Research Interests: Art & Technology
Tze-Yin Teo
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature
Email: tteo2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0906
Office: 356 PLC
Office Hours: By appointment
Mark T. Unno
Professor of Religious Studies, Religious Studies Department Head
East Asian Religions, Japanese Buddhism, Classical Japanese Buddhism, Early Chinese Thought, Comparative Ethics, Buddhism and Psychotherapy
Asian Studies, Medieval Studies, Religious Studies
Email: munno@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4973
Office: 334 Susan Campbell Hall
Office Hours: Mondays 4:30pm-5:15pm on Zoom, Tuesdays 1:00pm-1:45pm on Zoom and by appointment
Tuong Vu
Professor
Political Science
Email: thvu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4866
Office: 940 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Friday 9-12
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Ideology, Revolution, Communism, Nationalism, East and Southeast Asia
Akiko Walley
Maude I. Kerns Associate Professor of Japanese Art
History Art & Arch
Email: awalley@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1800
Office: 237A Lawrence Hall
Research Interests: Japanese Art
Glynne Walley
Associate Professor, Japanese Literature
East Asian Languages, Folklore Program
Email: glynne@uoregon.edu
Office: 423 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Thursdays 5:30-7:30 pm
Yugen Wang
Professor, Chinese Literature, Department Head
East Asian Languages
Email: ygwang@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Fall 2024, WED 3-5 pm
Jiabin Wu
Associate Professor
Economics, SAIL
Email: jwu5@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5778
Office: 475 PLC
Office Hours: Fall 2022: 12:30pm-1:30pm Monday 12:30pm-1:30pm Tuesday
Research Interests: Game Theory, Experimental Economics, Political Economy
Yizhao Yang
Professor
SCI-China Program Director
PPPM
Email: yizhao@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0833
Office: 115 Hendricks Hall
Kyu Ho Youm
Professor, Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair
SOJC-Media Studies Master's, SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC-Media Studies Undergrad
Email: youm@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2178
Office: 205 Allen Hall