Coblin, W. South
Professor

Chinese historical phonology, Chinese historical and comparative dialectology, Sino-Tibetan comparative and historical linguistics; Classical Chinese grammar, the language of early Chinese vernacular texts; the origins, history, and development of Chinese koines; history and development of pre-modern Mandarin, Chinese in 'Phag-pa script.

Ke, Chuanren
Professor

Chinese applied linguistics, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics, computerized adaptive testing, language assessment, Chinese language and pedagogy, curriculum development, teacher education.

Robertson, Maureen
Associate Professor

Chinese literary history. Critical and comparative study of poetry, literary theory, early vernacular fiction, gender and literature, women's literary culture in imperial China. Director of MFA in Translation, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature. Translation theory and practice. Asian-Western cross-cultural literary relations, 19th and 20th century.

Shen, Helen
Associate Professor

Chinese Language Coordinator of Chinese Language Program. Literacy development in Chinese with focus on orthographic knowledge development and cognitive process of Chinese characters; reading education in Chinese with focus on reading comprehension, reading assessment and testing, and reading diagnosis and remediation; instructional theories in teaching Chinese as a foreign Language with focus on classroom learning and teaching psychology and methodology.

Lutgendorf, Philip A.
Professor

Hindi and modern Indian culture, oral performance, folk and popular Hinduism, Ramayana performance and interpretation, elementary and advanced Hindi, medieval Hindi literature, Indian epic and Puranic traditions, modern Indian literature and cinema.

Leutner, Robert W.
Associate Professor

Classical Japanese Language and Literature.

Yuasa, Ikuko P.
Assistant Professor

Japanese language, sociolingusitcs, and sociophonetics.

Choi, Ho Jung
Visiting Instructor

Korean Language (first, second and third year).

Smith, Frederick M.
Professor

Sanskrit and classical Indian literature, Vedic texts and performance, yoga; text and practice, Puranas (esp. Bhagavata Purana), medieval Sanskrit devotional literature of North India, the composition of Vedic and Hindu religious and cultural traditions.

Karabatic, Frane
Visiting Lecturer

Croatian Language.

Kostina, Irina
Lecturer

Russian Language and Literature.

Mills, Margaret H.
Professor

Professor of Russian language and linguistics. Her research and major publications to date have been in the fields of cross-cultural Russian pragmatics, pragmalinguistics, and cross-cultural professional communication (Russian - English).

Sonkova, Jitka
Lecturer

Czech Language.

Vardanyan, Ashot
Lecturer

Native speaker of Armenian and Russian. Fond of languages and teaching the nuances within the interaction of languages, including contrastive grammar. Translator and interpreter.