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Anita Anantharam
Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley, assistant professor
- Area of teaching: Transnational feminism, postcolonial theory, Hindi and Urdu language and literature, women's social justice movements, and literary and visual cultures of the South Asian Diaspora
- Office: 203 Ustler Hall; 273-0383
- Email: aanita.ufl.edu
Cynthia Chennault
Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department
- PhD, Stanford University, 1979; Associate Professor
- Area of specialization: Chinese Literature-- medieval Chinese
poetry and social history; editor, Journal of Early Medieval China and
director, Florida Startalk Program for Teachers of Chinese
- Area of teaching: Language, literature (in translation and original)
- Office: 353 Pugh Hall, 392-2014
- Email: cchenna@ufl.edu
Elinore L. Fresh
Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department
- MA, University of Hawaii, 1990; ABD University of Hawaii; Senior Lecturer
- Area of Specialization/Research: Classical Chinese Literature
- Area of teaching: Mandarin Chinese and Chinese culture, business Chinese, and Chinese business culture
- Office: 356 Pugh; 273-2957
- Email: efresh@ufl.edu
S. Yumiko Hulvey
Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley 1989; Associate Professor
- Area of Specialization/Research: Classical Japanese literature by women (prose & poetry), Kamakura period nikki bungaku (Ben no Naishi nikki)
- Area of teaching:Classical Japanese, The Tale of Genji, classical Japanes literature, and medieval war tales. Fourth-year modern Japanese.
- Office: 322 Pugh Hall, 392-4916
- Email: yhulvey@ufl.edu
Sarah Kovner
- PhD, Columbia University, 2004; Assistant Professor
- Area of Specialization/Research: The Allied Occupation of Japan, Prisoners of War
- Area of Teaching: Japan and Korea, Gender and Sexuality, International/Transnational history
- Office: 019 Keene-Flint Hall, 273-3362
- Email: Kovner@ufl.edu
John Krigbaum
- PhD, New York University, 2001; Associate Professor
- Research and Teaching: biological anthropology, bioarcheology, human evolution, southeast Asia, Malaysia
- Office:1350A Turlington Hall, 392-2253, x243
- Email: krigbaum@ufl.edu
Susan Kubota
Languages, Literatures & Cultures
Lecturer, MA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1976
- Specialization: contemporary Japanese
- Area of Teaching: Japanese Literature, Language, Society, Folklore, Culture
- Office: 334 Pugh Hall, 392-1581
- Email: Susan Kubota
Guolong Lai
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles 2002; Assistant Professor
- Area of Specialization/Research: Chinese art and archaeology, historic preservation
- Area of teaching: Chinese art and archaeology, Asian monuments and social memory
- Office: FAC 125; 273-3072
Fax: 392-8453 - Email: gllai@ufl.edu
Sean MacDonald
Languages, Literatures & Cultures
- PhD, Assistant Professor of Chinese
- Area of Specialization/Research: Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and media.
- Area of teaching: Newspaper and media Chinese, modern fiction in translation, Chinese cinema, Chinese Culture
- Office: 304 Pugh Hall; 392-7083
Fax: 392-1443
- Email: seanmacdonald@ufl.edu
Joseph A. Murphy
Interim Director
Languages, Literatures & Cultures- PhD, Cornell, 1995; Assoc. Professor
- Area of teaching: Modern Japanese lit, Japanese film, 20th century media, cultural studies
- Office: 339 Pugh Hall; 392-0275
- Email: murphy7312@ufl.edu
Vasudha Narayanan
- PhD, University of Bombay, 1978, Distinguished Professor
- Area of Specialization/Research: The Sri Vaishnava tradition
- Hinduism in the Diaspora; Hindu Traditions in Cambodia
- Office: 104 Anderson Hall, 392-1625
- Email: vasu@religion.ufl.edu
Jason Neelis
- PhD, University of Washington, 2001, Assistant Professor Department of Religion
- Areas of Research and Teaching: South Asian Buddhism, early Buddhist manuscripts and and inscriptions, Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Pali languages; courses in Asian religions, Indian Buddhism, Buddhist texts, Hindu texts and ritual contexts
- Office: 130 Anderson, 392-1625 x240
- Email: jneelis@ufl.edu
- http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/jneelis/
Scott Nygren
Department of English, Film and Media Studies
- PhD, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1982; Assoc. Professor
- Area of Specialization: Japanese and Asian Film
- Teaching: Film and Media Studies
- Office: 4309 TUR, 392-6650 x247
- Email: nygren@ufl.edu
Andrea Pham
Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department
- PhD, University of Toronto, 2001; Assistant Professor
- Area of Specialization/Research: Phonology, Phonology-phonetics interface, Asian tones, Vietnamese linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Language Change.
- Area of Teaching: Vietnamese language
- 343 Pugh Hall, 392-7084
- Email: apham@.ufl.edu
Mario Poceski
- PhD, University of California, Los Angeles 2000; Assistant Professor
- Area of Specialization/Research: Chinese Buddhism
- Area of teaching: Buddhist studies, Chinese religions
- Office: 107F Anderson Hall
- Phone: 392-1625 ex. 233
- Email: mpoceski@religion.ufl.edu
Malini Schueller
- PhD, Purdue University 1986, Professor
- Area of Specialization: 19th- & 20th-Century American Literature, Post-colonial Theory, Feminist Theories
- Area of Teaching: Post-colonial theory, Asian American studies, and race studies.
- Office: 4113 Turlington Hall; (352) 392-6650, ext. 284
- email: mschuell@english.ufl.edu
Cynthia Hsien Shen
African and Asian Languages and Literatures Department
- PhD, Cornell University, Instructor
- Area of Teaching: Chinese Language
- Office: 341 Pugh Hall; (352) 846-2855
- Email: cshen@aall.ufl.edu
- http://plaza.ufl.edu/cshen
Chuan-kang Shih
- PhD, Stanford University, Assistant Professor
- Area of Specialization: Ethnography, historical anthropology, and anthropological demography
- Office: 1112 Turlington Hall; (352) 392-2253 x253
- Email: ckshih@ufl.edu
Benjamin Smith
Political Science and Asian Studies
- PhD, University of Washington, Assistant Professor
- Area of Specialization: Conflicts over ethnic self-determination; the comparative analysis of authoritarian regimes
- Office: 234 Anderson Hall
(352)273-2345 Fax (352)392-812 - bbsmith@polisci.ufl.edu
- http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/bbsmith
Richard Stepp
- PhD , Associate Professor
- Area of specialization/Research: Ecological anthropology, ethnobotany, medical anthropology, visual anthropology, Greater Mekong Region of
Southeast Asia.
- Area of teaching: Cultural Anthropology, Ethnobiology; Anthropology
- Office: 1112 Turlington Hall
Gainesville, FL 32611
352-392-0299
Fax (352) 6929 - stepp@ufl.edu
- http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/stepp
Jason Stueber
- Cofrin Curator of Asian Art
- Phone: 392-9826 x140
P .O. Box 112700 - Email: jsteuber@harn.ufl.edu
Maureen Turim
- PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1978; Professor
- Specialization: Film History & Theory
- Teaching: Asian cultures and film
- Office: 392-6650 x258
- Email: mturim@english.ufl.edu
Ratree P. Wayland
- PhD, Cornell University, 1997; Assistant Professor
- Area of Specialization/Research: Phonetics, Second Language Acquisition, Sound Symbolism
- Area of teaching: Phonetics, Second Language Acquisition
- Office location and phone number: 4131E Turlington Hall, 392-0639 ext. 235
- Email: ratree@ufl.edu
Ann Wehmeyer
Languages, Literatures and Cultures Department
- PhD, University of Michigan, 1987; Department Chair and Associate Professor
- Area of Specialization/Research: Japanese language and Linguistics
- Area of teaching: Japanese language, Linguistics, Folklore
- Office: 320 Pugh Hall, (352) 273-2961
- Email: awehmeye@ufl.edu
- http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/wehmeyer/index.htm
Library Resources
David Hickey
- MA, Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1975;
ABD, Chinese Literature and Language, Georgetown University; 1987; MA, Library Science, Michigan (1976). Associate Librarian; Library Asian Studies Coordinator - Area of specialization: China, emphasis on modern literature and history
- Office: First Floor Library West, Room 140R.
352-392-9075 Ext. 312
352-392-8118 (fax) - Email: cdhickey@ufl.edu
- Chinese Studies collection:
http://libguides.uflib.ufl.edu/asian_studies .
- Japanese Studies collection:
http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/japanese/jpn.html
Faculty and Staff
Joseph A. Murphy
Interim Director
- PhD, Cornell, 1995; Assoc. Professor
- Area of teaching: Modern Japanese lit, Japanese film, 20th century media, cultural studies
- Office: 339 Pugh Hall; 392-0275
- Email: murphy7312@ufl.edu
Bodo Randrianasolo
Program Assistant
- MA, Anthropology, Washington University, Missouri
- Office: 157 Dauer Hall; PO Box 115565
- Email: bodoran@ufl.edu
- Area of teaching: Language, literature (in translation and original)
