Washington University - Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures

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[DEPARTMENT FACULTY] [NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN...] [STAFF]

FACULTY

		Asad AHMED Assistant Professor of Arabic PH.D., Princeton University, 2007 aahmed@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Graeco-Arabica, Arabo-Islamic philosophy and theology, early Islamic history, classical Arabic poetry and poetics, Islam in the modern world.

		Hiroo ARIDOME Lecturer in Japanese M.A., University of Minnesota, 2002 haridome@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Japanese conversation analysis and secondary language reading acquisiton.

		Pamela BARMASH Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew Ph.D., Harvard University, 1999 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~pbarmash pbarmash@wustl.edu Research interests: History of law; religions of the ancient Near East; history of scriptual interpretation.

		Housni BENNIS Lecturer in Arabic M.A., Washington University, 1995 hbennis@artsci.wustl.edu

		Nancy E. BERG Associate Professor of Modern Hebrew Language & Literature; Jewish and Near Eastern Studies; Comparative Literature (courtesy) Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1991 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~nberg nberg@wustl.edu Research interests: Modern Hebrew language, literature; Israeli culture; Israeli immigrant writers; women's writing.

		William Puck BRECHER Visiting Lecturer in Pre-Modern Japanese Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2005 wbrecher@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Literature, literati, aesthetics, and urban history in Japan's pre-modern and early modern periods.

		Lingchei Letty CHEN Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Language & Literature Ph.D., Columbia University, 2000 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~llchen llchen@wustl.edu Research interests: Globalization, postcolonialism, postmodernism, identity politics, travel theory, mimesis, narratology.

		Wen Hui CHEN Lecturer in Chinese M.A., Taiwan Normal University, 2004 wchen@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Pedagogical grammar, teaching techniques, reading and writing in Chinese.

		Rebecca COPELAND Professor of Japanese Language & Literature Ph.D., Columbia University, 1986 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~copeland/homepage.html copeland@wustl.edu Research interests: Modern Japanese Literature, women writers and gender issues, translation theory and practice.

		Giore D. ETZION Senior Lecturer in Modern Hebrew M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1982 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~etzion etzion@wustl.edu Research interests: Hebrew pedagogy; education technology.

		Fariba FAYAZ Lecturer in Persian M.S., Adelphi University, 1985 ffayaz@artsci.wustl.edu

		Beata GRANT Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~bgrant bgrant@wustl.edu Research interests: Chinese religion and literature, Pre-modern Chinese women's literature and culture, Buddhism.

		Shino HAYASHI Lecturer in Japanese M.A., University of Minnesota, 2003; M.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2005 shayashi@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Second language acquisition, Japanese language pedagogy, discourse analysis, and conversation analysis.

		Robert E. HEGEL Liselotte Dieckmann Professor of Comparative Literature; Professor of Chinese Language & Literature Ph.D., Columbia University, 1973 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~rhegel rhegel@wustl.edu Research interests: Narrative forms and conventions in late imperial China (i.e. roughly 1500-1900), book culture, practices of reading and writing, legal writing, and conceptions of right and wrong as implicit in narrative texts of all forms.

		Martin JACOBS Associate Professor of Rabbinic Studies Ph.D. and Habilitation, Free University of Berlin, 1994, 2002 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~mjacobs mjacobs@wustl.edu Research interests: Rabbinic literature and thought; Jewish Historiography; Jewish-Muslim cultural and literary contacts; Rabbinic and Islamic interpretation; Jews in Islamic lands.

		Fatemeh KESHAVARZ, Chair Professor of Persian Language & Literature and Jewish and Near Eastern Studies Ph.D., London University, 1985 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~fatemeh fatemeh@wustl.edu Research interests: Persian poetry, Islamic mysticism, women's studies.

		Mijeong Mimi KIM Lecturer in Korean ED.D., University of San Francisco, 1994 mmkim@wustl.edu Research interests: Korean language pedagogy, second language education, second language acquisition, language proficiency testing.

		Pauline LEE Assistant Professor in Chinese Religion & Culture P.h.D., Stanford University, 2002 http: //artsci.wustl.edu/~plee pclee@wustl.edu Research interests: Pre-Qin Chinese Thought, Neo-Confucianism, Li Zhi, Chinese Feminisms, Comparative Feminist Thought.

		Xia LIANG Senior Lecturer in Chinese M.A., Beijing Normal University, 1987 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~xliang xliang@wustl.edu

		Chun-ying LIN Lecturer in Chinese M.A., National Taiwan Normal University, 2000 clin@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Pedagogical grammar especially grammar points at elementary level, and e-learning materials.

		Marvin H. MARCUS Associate Professor of Japanese Language & Literature Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1986 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~japanese/Marvin.html mhmarcus@wustl.edu Research interests: Literature of the Meiji-Taisho periods (1868-1926); Japanese biographical and autobiographical literature; Japanese literary journalism.

		Virginia S. MARCUS Senior Lecturer in Japanese M.A., University of Michigan, 1984; M.A., New York University, 1975 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~japanese/Ginger.html vsmarcus@wustl.edu Research interests: Japanese language pedagogy.

		Judy Zhijun MU Senior Lecturer in Chinese Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1995 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~jzmu/courses.html jzmu@wustl.edu Research interests: Second language acquisition, Chinese language text compilement, teaching techniques, etc.

		Jamie NEWHARD Assistant Professor of Japanese Ph.D., Columbia University, 2005 jnewhard@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Premodern Japanese literature, history of literary scholarship, medieval and early modern reception of classical literature, history of reading, book and publishing history, women's education.

		Ke NIE Visiting Lecturer in Chinese M.Ed., Capital Normal University, 2007 knie@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Phenomenology and pedagogy.

		Kayo NIIMI Lecturer in Japanese M.A., Ohio State University, 2003 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~kniimi kniimi@artsci.wustl.edu

		Mohamed-Salah OMRI Associate Professor of Arabic Ph.D., Washington University, 2001 momri@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Modern and Pre-modern Arabic literature; Francophone literature of the Maghreb; Comparative Literature; Arab cinema; literature and history; Tunisia.

		Rami PINSBERG Senior Lecturer in Modern Hebrew M.Ed., University of Missouri in St. Louis, 1979 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~pinsberg pinsberg@wusl.edu

		Roschanack SHAERY Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian and Near Eastern Languages and International and Area Studies Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2005 rshaerye@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Transnationalism, religious nationalism, Islam, Colonialism, memory and pain, Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, India.

		Younasse TARBOUNI Lecturer in Arabic M.A., Carson-Newman College, 1998 ytarboun@artsci.wustl.edu

		Wei WANG Lecturer in Chinese M.A., University of Minnesota, 2001 wwanga@artsci.wustl.edu

		M.J. WARSI Lecturer in South Asian Languages and Linguistics Ph.D., AMU Aligarh, India, 1998 mwarsi@artsci.wustl.edu Research interests: Hindi-Urdu language, linguistics and literature.

		Fengtao WU Senior Lecturer in Chinese M.A., Indiana University, 1987 http://artsci.wustl.edu/~fwu/Courses.html fwu@wustl.edu Research interests: Semantics and syntactics in Chinese teaching.

NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN...

		Shaaron BENJAMIN Administrative Assistant

		Tamie KAMIYAMA Professor Emerita of Japanese Language & Literature

		Viola LIU Associate Professor Emerita of Chinese

		Robert E. MORRELL Professor Emeritus of Japanese Language & Literature http://artsci.wustl.edu/~robertmo robertmo@artsci.wustl.edu

		James C. SHIH Associate Professor Emeritus of Chinese Language & History jcshih@artsci.wustl.edu

		Richard YANG Professor Emeritus of Chinese

DEPARTMENT STAFF

		Debra JONES Administrative Officer dsjones@wustl.edu

		JoAnn Achelpohl Administrative Assistant j.achelpohl@wustl.edu

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