East Asian Languages and Literatures
Ray Balstad
Graduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: rbalstad@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2703
Office: 114D Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am - 4:30pm
Research Interests: French, Film, Comics, Foreign Language Acquisition, Botany
Fatima Benhabyb
Undergraduate Program Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Judaic Studies Program, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program
Email: fatimab@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2047
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWRF 8:30am-4:30pm [Remote Fridays]
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
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
Weijun Chen
Senior Instructor II, Chinese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: wjchen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8501
Office: 172 Gerlinger Annex
Ai-Ting Chung
Japanese GE
East Asian Languages
Email: aitingc@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Visual cultural studies, cinema, anime
Xiaoyan Deng
PhD candidate
East Asian Languages
Email: xiaoyand@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 27
Office Hours: Tuesdays 11am-12pm
Research Interests: Modern Chinese theatre and literature, Chinese film
Olivia Denton
Faculty Support Coordinator
ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: odenton@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1385
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MTWTF 9:00-5:00
Rachel DiNitto
Professor, Japanese Literature
Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS), East Asian Languages & Literatures
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and 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
Stephen Durrant
Professor Emeritus, Chinese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Email: sdurrant@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4041
Office: 308 Friendly Hall
Brita Ellis
Academic Programs Manager
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish
Email: bellis5@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-9782
Office: Friendly 114E
Maram Epstein
Professor, Chinese Literature
Director, Center for Asian Pacific Studies
Chinese, East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: maram@uoregon.edu
Office: 303 Friendly Hall
Michael Fishlen
Associate Professor Emeritus, Chinese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Email: fishlen@uoregon.edu
Office: 308 Friendly Hall
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
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
Teppei Fukuda
Graduate Student (doctoral)
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: tfukuda@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4084
Office: Friendly Hall 114
Research Interests: Japanese aesthetics related to seasons, Japanese poetry, Manga, Japanese Onomatopoeia, Translation
Yukari Furikado-Koranda
Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: furikado@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4002
Office: 313 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M/W 2:15pm-3:45pm or by appointment
Denise Gigliotti
Senior Instructor II, Chinese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: dhg@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3552
Office: 213 Villard Hall
Office Hours: M/W/F 12:00-12:50
Research Interests: Chinese langauge pedagogy, Chinese language, literature, media
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
Office Hours: Fall 2024: Mondays 3-4pm on Zoom (email for link); Tuesdays 4-5pm, FR317
Xiangchen Gu
graduate student
Chinese, East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: xgu7@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly Hall 27
Office Hours: 3-4pm, R
Research Interests: Early China
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
Email: lukehabb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4006
Office: 401 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 2-4 pm
Hana Hana Sasakawa
Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: sasakawa@uoregon.edu
Reiko Hashimoto
Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: rhashimo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4089
Office: 413 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Kaori Idemaru
Professor, Japanese Linguistics
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, Language Teaching Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: idemaru@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3551
Office: 302 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 14:00-16:00 Tuesday
Rika Ikei
Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: rika@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4035
Office: 408 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M 14:00-16:00, W 9:30-10:30, or by appointment
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
Office Hours: Tuesday 10AM-12PM
Research Interests: Cognitive Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics
Yeojin Jung
PhD student
GE, teaching Korean
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: yeojinj@uoregon.edu
Office: 305 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Foreign-accented speech perception, Second language acquisition, Psycho-/neurolinguistics
Jina Kim
Associate Professor, Korean Literature & Culture
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and 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
Jonathan Knight
Operations Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Native American Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: jknight6@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0951
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 8-4:30 M-F
Stephen Kohl
Associate Professor Emeritus, Japanese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Email: kohl@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4006
Office: 308 Friendly Hall
Nayoung Kwon
Associate Professor, Korean Linguistics
Korean Sector Representative
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: nkwon@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4179
Office: Friendly Hall 425
Flora Lam
Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Email: floral@uoregon.edu
Office: FR027
Research Interests: second language acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism
Wendy Larson
Professor Emerita, Chinese Literature
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages
Email: walarson@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4012
Office: 301 Friendly Hall
Changhoon Lee
Pro tem Korean Language Instructor
East Asian Languages
Email: clee23@uoregon.edu
Office: Friendly 203
Joonpyo Lee
Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Email: jlee37@uoregon.edu
Office: 30 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: F 2:00 - 2:50
Research Interests: Textual Critique, Early Chinese Historical Wiring, Chinese Classics Studies (經學), Chinese Classics (儒家經傳), Excavated Texts
Ya-Jo Li
PHD student
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: yachiaol@uoregon.edu
Phone: 5415143962
Office: Friendly 308
Research Interests: Gender study, Chinese women history (especially Medieval China) and Ming-Qing fictions
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, School of Global Studies and Languages
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
Bibo Lin
Doctoral Candidate
SOJC-Media Studies PhD, SOJC, East Asian Languages
Email: bibol@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-6304
Office: 312 Allen Hall
Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Human-Machine Communication, Digital Journalism, Global Media
Xiaoyu Liu
Ph.D. Candidate
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: xliu12@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4090
Office: 27 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Chinese Linguistics, Psycholinguistics (eye-tracking, self-paced reading), second language acquisition, bilingualism & Chinese language pedagogy
Yue Liu
Courtesy Lecturer
Associate Professor
East Asian Languages
Email: yueliu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5068
Office: Gerlinger Hall 110
Research Interests: Early Chinese
Fengjun Mao
Senior Instructor II, Chinese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: fjmao@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-8501
Office: 224 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M/W 11-noon or by appointment
Kumiko McDowell
PhD candidate
East Asian Languages
Email: kumikom@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1855
Office: 121 Knight Library
Research Interests: Japanese pre-modern culture
Monica E. McLellan
Research Admin Coordinator
East Asian Languages
Email: monicaem@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3621
Office: 677 E 12th Ave., Ste 500
Sayaka Merriam
PhD Student
East Asian Languages, Japanese
Email: sayakam@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Early modern and modern Japanese literature and culture, Translation Studies, Visual Culture
John Moore
Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Email: jmoore10@uoregon.edu
Office: UO Annex Suite 3
Research Interests: Japanese Animation, Film, and Literature
Lee Moore
Adjunct Professor
East Asian Languages
Email: lmoore@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-1766
Office: 427 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Modern Chinese Literature, Museology, Identity
Jordan Morris
Office Generalist, ASU 1
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, French, General Social Sciences, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: jmor@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2579
Office: FR 107
Office Hours: 8:00a - 4:30p
Steve Morrow
Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: stevm@uoregon.edu
McRae Naayers
Faculty Support Coordinator
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Email: mnaayers@uoregon.edu
Phone: 5413460171
Office: Friendly 107
Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30-5:00
Naoko Nakadate
Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: naoko@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0047
Office: 410 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M&T 10:00-11:30 or by appointment
Karen Neal
UG Coordinator
Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, German & Scandinavian, Romance Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: kjneal@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4051
Office: 114 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F: 8:00am - 12:00pm
Yoko O'Brien
Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: yobrien@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3050
Office: 415 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:30
Lauren Polak
Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: lpolak@uoregon.edu
Kylie Yihua Post
Assistant Director, Chinese Flagship Program
East Asian Languages
Email: kpost@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5068
Office: 110 Gerlinger Hall
Shan Ren
PhD
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: sren@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Early modern Japanese literature
Yi Ren
Graduate Student
East Asian Languages
Email: yren2@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Phonetics, Sociolinguistics, East Asian Linguistics
Andrea Romero Dugarte
Intercultural Experiences and Career Readiness Coordinator (IEC)
African Studies, Asian Studies, East Asian Languages, European Studies, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Health Program, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Yamada Language Center
Phone: 541-346-4007
Office: Friendly Hall 114B
Lisa Ross
Associate Director
African Studies, Asian Studies, Chinese, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, French, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Middle East and North African Studies, Modern Hebrew Language, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Portuguese, Romance Languages, Romance Languages Major, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: lgillis@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4005
Office: 107 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: M-F 8-5
Tim Strikwerda
PhD Student
East Asian Languages
Email: tstrikwe@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4656
Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
Research Interests: Postwar Japanese literature, film, and cultural history.
Feiya Suo
PhD Student
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: suo@uoregon.edu
Office: 6 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: 3:00-4:00pm, Thursday
Research Interests: Chinese linguistics
Sabrina Yunzhu Tao
PhD in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
East Asian Languages
Email: ytao@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4090
Office: 27 Friendly Hall
Research Interests: Modern Chinese and Sinophone literature, film, music, and popular culture
Marci Viano-Davis
Operations Manager
ASU 1 - School of Global Studies and Languages
College of Arts and Sciences, East Asian Languages, Food Studies, German & Scandinavian, Global Studies, Ichishkiin Language, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, Northwest Indian Language Institute, OCIAS, Romance Languages, Russian East European and Eurasian Studies, School of Global Studies and Languages, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center
Email: marcid@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4019
Office: 116 Friendly
Office Hours: 9-3 M-F
Glynne Walley
Associate Professor, Japanese Literature
East Asian Languages, Folklore Program, School of Global Studies and Languages
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
Sunhee Woo
Korean language instructor
Renewable non-tenure-track faculty
East Asian Languages, Korean
Email: swoo@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-7166
Office: 308 Friendly Hall
Office Hours: Wed1:30~3:30 p.m.
Jean Wu
Senior Instructor II, Chinese Language
Chinese Flagship Academic Director
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: jeanywu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4098
Office: 402 Friendly Hall
Leting Zheng
Ph.D. candidate
East Asian Languages, School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: letingz@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature, transnational children's studies, visual culture, gender studies