Core Faculty
Name	Title	Email
Chungmoo Choi	Ph.D. Indiana University, Associate Professor (modern Korea, post-colonial and colonial discourse, popular culture, anthropology)	cchoi@uci.edu
Edward Fowler	Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Professor (modern literature, cultural studies, film )	ebfowler@uci.edu
James Fujii	Ph.D. University of Chicago, Associate Professor (modern Japanese literature; critical theory and cultural studies)	jafujii@uci.edu
Michael Fuller	Ph.D. Yale University, Associate Professor (classical Chinese poetry and poetics, the cultural and intellectual contexts for poetry, aesthetic theory, linguistic issues in classical Chinese)	mafuller@uci.edu
Martin Weizong Huang	Department Chair. Ph.D. Washington University, Professor (vernacular fiction and late imperial Chinese cultural and intellectual histories)	mwhuang@uci.edu
Kyung Hyun Kim	Graduate Faculty Advisor. Ph.D. University of Southern California, Professor (Asian cinema, modern Korea, critical theory)	kyunghk@uci.edu
Susan B. Klein	Ph.D. Cornell University, Associate Professor (premodern and modern theater And dance; medieval commentaries; Japanese religions; new historicism and feminist critical theory)	sbklein@uci.edu
Serk-Bae Suh	Ph.D UCLA, Assistant Professor (Modern Korean and Japanese literature; cultural studies; modern Korean and Japanese intellectual history; colonial and postcolonial studies with emphasis on Japanese colonialism in Korea from 1905 to 1945 and the Korea	suhsb@uci.edu
Hu Ying	Ph.D. Princeton University, Associate Professor (premodern and modern narrative literature, translation study, feminist theories)	huying@uci.edu

Affiliated Faculty
Name	Title	Email
Jonathan M. Hall	Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and of Film and Media Studies (Japanese literary, cultural, and cinematic history; critical theories of East Asia; East Asian cinema; psychoanalytic and queer t	jmhall@uci.edu
Judy C. Ho	Ph.D. Yale University, Associate Professor of Art History (Chinese art and archaeology, Buddhist art and popular religions)	jchooran@uci.edu
Eugene Park	Ph.D. Harvard University, Assistant Professor of History (Korea)	parkey@uci.edu
Kenneth L. Pomeranz	Ph.D. Yale University, UCI Chancellor's Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and LIteratures (modern Chinese)	klpomera@uci.edu
Anne Walthall	Ph.D. University of Chicago, Co-Director of the Minor in Asian Studies and Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Literatures (early modern and modern Japan)	walthall@uci.edu
Bert Winther-Tamaki	Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York Univeristy, Associate Professor of Art History (Modern Japanese art, Asian American art, art and nationalism)	dewinthe@uci.edu

LECTURERS

Michihiro Ama, Lecturer, Korean Language Program & Japanese Language Program

Kiyomi Chinen, Lecturer, Japanese Language Program

Hyunju Choe, Lecturer, Korean Language Program

Polly Ho, Lecturer, Chinese Language Program

Ruohmei Hsieh, Academic Coordinator, Chinese Language Program

Hyun Young-Chung Hyun, Academic Coordinator, Korean Language Program

Judith Faye Kimura, Lecturer, Japanese Language Program

Jung Hwa Lee, Lecturer, Korean Language Program

Jessica Liu,, Lecturer, Chinese Language Program

Akemi Morioka, Academic Coordinator, Japanese Language Program

Ayako Nishiguchi, Lecturer, Japanese Language Program

Jin Young Oh, Lecturer, Korean Language Program

Ying Petersen, Lecturer, Chinese Language Program

Eiko H. Sithi-Amnuai, Lecturer, Japanese Language Program

Shaoyi Sun, Lecturer, East Asian Literature

Minh-Tam Tran, Lecturer, Vietnamese Language Program

Tri Chan Tran, Academic Coordinator, Vietnamese Language Program

Di Wu, Lecturer, Chinese Language Program

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Michihiro Ama, Ph.D. Candidate, concentration in Japanese

Kenneth Berthel, concentration in Chinese

David Cannell, Ph.D. candidate, concentration in Japanese

Kerou (Carol) Chang, East Asian Cultural Studies

Tieniu Cheng, Ph.D. Candidate, concentration in Chinese

Liz Cho, concentration in East Asian

Steven Chung, Ph.D. Candidate, concentration in East Asian

Christine Cowgill, concentration in Japanese

Michael Cronin, concentration in Japanese

Li Han, concentration in Chinese

LeRon Harrison, Ph.D. Candidate, concentration in Japanese

Tiffany Hong, Japanese

Masako Ikenushi, Ph.D. Candidate, concentration in Japanese

Kristen Keogh, Chinese

Yun Jong Lee, East Asian Cultural Studies

Hsin-chieh Li, concentration in Chinese

Yuan Liu, Ph.D. Candidate, concentration in Chinese

Mayumi Manabe, Ph.D. Candidate, concentration in Japanese

Jesse Palmer, concentration in Japanese

Hyun Seon Park, concentration in East Asian

Zhen Zhang, Ph.D candidate, concentration in East Asian

Huili Zheng, concentration in Chinese

ALUMNI

Marie Dolembro, concentration in Japanese

Farrell Graves, Ph.D. UC Irvine, Summer 2004, concentration in Japanese

Adrienne Hurley, Ph.D. UC Irvine, Summer 2000, concentration in Japanese

Kota Inoue, Ph.D UC Irvine, Summer 2004, concentration in Japanese

Helen Jeesung Lee, Ph.D. UC Irvine, Summer 2003, concentration in Japanese

Jennifer Yawey Maldonado, concentration in Chinese

Michele Mason, Ph.D., UC Irvine, Summer 2005, concentration in Japanese

Junko Matsuura, M.A. UC Irvine, Summer 2002, concentration in Japanese

Jennifer Mertens, Ph.D. UC Irvine, Summer 2004,

Toshiko Yokota, Ph.D. UC Irvine, Summer 2000, concentration in Japanese

STAFF

Mindy Han, Department Manager

Eileen Powell, Graduate/Payroll Coordinator

Pat Eyster, Undergraduate Coordinator/Finance Assistant