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Asian Languages and Cultures 1

Hongming Zhang (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/hongming-zhang/) (Professor). Area: Chinese Linguistics; History of Chinese Language; ASIAN LANGUAGES AND Teaching Chinese as a Second Language CULTURES Tianlu Zhang (https://alc.wisc.edu/staff/zhang-tianlu/) (Faculty Associate). Area: Chinese Language PEOPLE Weihua Zhu (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/weihua-zhu/) (Associate Professor). Area: Chinese Language, Pedagogy and Second Language Acquisition FACULTY Asian Languages and Cultures is home to nearly twenty faculty whose SOUTH ASIA research and teaching specialities cover a wide range of subject areas, Gudrun Bühnemann (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/gudrun-b including: medical humanities in India; the Hindu roots of yoga; inflecting %C3%BChnemann/) (Professor). Area: Sanskrit Language and Literature; contemporary mindfulness practice with insights from Tibetan buddhism; Buddhism in India and Nepal; Hinduism; Tantrism; Yoga Studies human rights in ; Chinese ghost stories, traditional Sinology, and Anthony Cerulli (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/anthony-cerulli/) mathematically inflected Chinese philology; sociolinguistics, discourse (Associate Professor). Area: Theory and Method in the Study of Religion analysis, and pragmatics in Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Indonesian; in South Asia; History of Medicine in India; Sanskrit Language and critical reading of late-Heian tale fiction, early modern Japanese comedic Literature; Kerala History and Culture; Malayalam Language narratives, and haiku; and , , and Japanese counterculture. John D. Dunne (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/john-d-dunne/) (Professor). Area: Buddhist Philosophy and Contemplative Practice; Jaerin Ahn (https://alc.wisc.edu/staff/ahn-jaerin/) (Faculty Associate). Religious Studies; Cognitive Science of Religion Area: Korean Language Jamal Jones (https://alc.wisc.edu/staff/jones-jamal/) (Assistant Charo D'Etcheverry (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/charo- Professor). Area: Sanskrit and Telugu Literature in pre Modern south detcheverry/) (Professor). Area: Classical Japanese Literature India. Anatoly Detwyler (https://alc.wisc.edu/staff/anatoly-detwyler/) SOUTHEAST ASIA (Assistant Professor). Area: Modern Chinese Literature and History, Erlin Barnard (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/erlin-barnard/) (Faculty Comparative New Media, Information Studies Associate). Area: Indonesian Language, Language Pedagogy; Materials Naomi Geyer (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/naomi-geyer/) Development; Second Language Acquisition (Associate Professor). Area: Japanese Language Tyrell Haberkorn (https://alc.wisc.edu/staff/tyrell-haberkorn-2/) Rania Huntington (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/rania-huntington/) (Professor). Area: Violence, Human Rights, Sovereignty, Arbitrary (Professor). Area: Ming and Qing Narrative and Drama, Chinese Literature Detention, Land Rights, Agrarian Struggle, Historiographies of Repression, of the weird and supernatural Gender Studies, Socialism, Dissident Literature, Southeast Asia (Thailand) Adam L. Kern (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/adam-l-kern/) LANGUAGE INSTRUCTORS (Professor). Area: Popular Literature, Culture, Poetry, Theater, and Visual Language instructors (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/language-instructors/) Culture of early modern-modern are an integral part of our department, teaching more than 14 languages Hieyoon Kim (https://alc.wisc.edu/staff/hieyoon-kim/) (Assistant during the academic year from East (Chinese, Japanese, Korean), South Professor). Area: dissident culture; postcolonial archive and (Hindi, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan, Urdu), and Southeast (Burmese, Filipino, historiography; Korean and East Asian cinema and popular culture Hmong, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese) Asian Languages. Byung-jin Lim (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/byung-jin-lim/) UNDERGRADUATE ADVISOR (Associate Professor). Area: Korean Language and Linguistics, Second / Undergraduate Advisor: Foreign Language Acquisition, Korean Language Textbook Development email Rachel Weiss ([email protected]) Junko Mori (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/steve-ridgely/) 1244 Van Hise Hall (Professor). Area: Japanese Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, 608-890-0138 Sociolinguistics STAFF Takako Nakakubo (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/takako-nakakubo/) Department Administrator: (Faculty Associate). Area: Second Language Acquisition of Japanese, email Jenn Hekman ([email protected]) Japanese Pedagogy 1240 Van Hise Hall Steve Ridgely (http://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/steve-ridgely/) 608-262-0524 (Associate Professor). Area: Modern Japanese Literature, Pop culture, Financial Specialist: TransAsian studies email Haiyan Wei ([email protected]) 1238 Van Hise Hall 2 Asian Languages and Cultures

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