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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
 
 
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
 
 
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
 
 
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.
 
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Language & Literature
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2000
 
 
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
 
 
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
 
 
Research interests: Hebrew pedagogy; education technology.
 
Fariba FAYAZ
Lecturer in Persian
M.S., Adelphi University, 1985
 
 
Beata GRANT
Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987
 
 
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
 
 
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
 
 
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
 
pclee@wustl.edu
 
Research interests: Pre-Qin Chinese Thought, Neo-Confucianism, Li Zhi, Chinese Feminisms, Comparative Feminist Thought.
 
Senior Lecturer in Chinese
M.A., Beijing Normal University, 1987
 
 
Chun-ying LIN
Lecturer in Chinese
M.A., National Taiwan Normal University, 2000
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
 
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
 
 
Research interests: Japanese language pedagogy.
 
Judy Zhijun MU
Senior Lecturer in Chinese
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1995
 
 
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
 
 
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
 
 
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
 
Wei WANG
Lecturer in Chinese
M.A., University of Minnesota, 2001
 
 
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

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


 
 
James C. SHIH
Associate Professor Emeritus of Chinese Language & History
 
 
 
Richard YANG
Professor Emeritus of Chinese
 
 
 
DEPARTMENT STAFF
 
 
Debra JONES
Administrative Officer
 
 
 
JoAnn Achelpohl
Administrative Assistant
 
 
 
 
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