East Asian Languages and Literatures
Naoko Nakadate
Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: naoko@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-0047
Office: 410 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: 9:00-10:30 M, 1:30-3:00 Th and by appointment
Lauren Polak
Graduate Employee
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: lpolak@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: indexicality, role language, language ideology, media depictions of language, linguistic perception
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 Agate Hall
Office Hours: M-F 8-5
Feiya Suo
PhD Student
East Asian Languages, Chinese, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: suo@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: 2:00-3:00pm, Thursday
Research Interests: Chinese linguistics
Kaoru Tamura
East Asian Languages, Japanese, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Office: Friendly 308, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Marci Viano-Davis
Operations Manager
ASU 1 - Schnitzer 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, Spanish, Spanish Heritage Language Program, Yamada Language Center, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: marcid@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4019
Office: 116 Friendly, University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403
Office Hours: 9-4 M-F
Glynne Walley
Associate Professor, Japanese Literature
East Asian Languages, Folklore Program, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: glynne@uoregon.edu
Office: Mac Court 104A
Office Hours: Winter 2026: Monday 1-3 pm
Yixuan Wang
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: yiw@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 3:30-4:30pm
Research Interests: Cognitive semantics, discourse analysis, pragmatics, Modern Chinese literature
Yugen Wang
Professor of Chinese Literature
East Asian Languages, Medieval Studies
Email: ygwang@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1205
Office Hours: Winter 2026, WED 11 am-1 pm, on Zoom
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, 1248 University of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Office Hours: Wed1:30~3:30 p.m.
Jean Wu
Teaching Professor, Chinese Language
Chinese Language Program Coordinator
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: jeanywu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4098
Office: 402 Friendly Hall, 1248 University Of Oregon, Eugene OR 97403-1248
Yang Xi
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: yxi@uoregon.edu
Office Hours: T 12-12:50 and Th 1:00-1:50
Research Interests: Chinese linguistics
Leting Zheng
Ph.D. candidate
East Asian Languages, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: letingz@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Modern Chinese literature and history, transnational children’s studies, media and visual culture (magazines, films, and comics), affect theory, gender studies, colonial studies