Asian Languages & Literature

Projects

Collage of photos taken at Shanghai Film Museum, Korea Film Archive, and Tokyo Film Center

Inter-Asian Historiophoty

Asian Languages & Literature, Cultural Studies, History, Pedagogy, Visual Culture
Excerpt from a 13th century letter using Classical Chinese

Modality in Classical Chinese

Asian Languages & Literature, China, Linguistics
Excerpt from the Jain manuscript "Unhappy Yaśodhara does his duty"

Memory Construction and Emotion in India, Past and Present

Asian Languages & Literature, India, Religion, South Asia
Protest by detained African asylum seekers in Holot detention facility in Israel, 2014.

Negotiating Carceral Regimes in the Global South: Crime and Punishment Across the Islamic World

21st Century, Asian Languages & Literature, Capitalism, Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media
Shadows of people stand in a dark room with specks of white light.

Constellations of Asian Racialization

Asian American, Asian Languages & Literature, Race

Articles

Poster for Socially Engaged Art in Japan

The Show Goes On

Japan, Visual Culture, Asian Languages & Literature
Close-up showing toy tank with text of "Hum Dekhenge"

Jennifer Dubrow’s New Article Explores the Power of Urdu Poetry and Political Protest

Poetry, Asian Languages & Literature, Social Justice
Reiko Yamanaka

Reiko Yamanaka Visits Simpson Center as Visiting Scholar

Visiting Scholars, Asian Languages & Literature
Painting of 18th century singer and poet Bani-thani

Heidi Pauwels awarded NEH fellowship

Awards, Asian Languages & Literature, India
Tughra (Insignia) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–1566)

Now Open to the Public and Online: "Is there a Persianate Modernity?" Symposium

Middle East, South Asia, Asian Languages & Literature, Persianate
Participants of the workshop at work deciphering manuscripts in Smith Hall seminar room on July 6, 2022. Photo courtesy Sabeena Shaikh.

Braj and Beyond

Asian Languages & Literature, Translation Studies
Profile image of Ying-Hsiu Chou in a dark blue top against a white wall with blue shadows. Her hair is dark and pulled back in a low bun with bangs in front. She is smiling close-lipped at the camera.

2020 Digital Humanities Summer Fellow Receives Prestigious Award

Cinema, Asian Languages & Literature, China, Digital Humanities

Katz Lectures

A black and white photo of Shu-mei Shih wearing glasses.

From World History to World Art: Reflections on New Geographies of Feminist Art in Asia

Feminisms, Art, Art History, Asian Languages & Literature
David Knechtges wears a suit, tie, and glasses.

How to View a Mountain in Medieval China

History, Asian Languages & Literature, China
portrait of Sasha Su-Ling Welland

The Art of Living in the Nuclear Anthropocene

Asian Languages & Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Anthropology
Winnie Wong

The Many Names of Anonymity: Rethinking Export Art

Asian Languages & Literature, Art History, Visual Culture

People

Ungsan Kim

Ungsan Kim (he/him/his)

Ungsan Kim us an Assistant Professor of Asian Cinema jointly appointed in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Department of Film, Television, and Media.
Asian Languages & Literature, Cinema, East Asia, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Visual Culture
Close up of Hope smiling at the camera, long hair parted the side and in front of her right shoulder, behind her left shoulder. She is wearing a green patterned top and the backdrop is a cream color.

Hope Reidun St. John

Hope St. John is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology studying photographic practice in contemporary Qingdao.

Anthropology, Asian Languages & Literature, China, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, Cosmopolitanism, Digital Humanities, Globalization, Identity and Culture, Urbanism, Visual Culture
Nathaniel Bond wears a blue collared shirt while sitting in a chair and looking into the camera.

Nathaniel Bond (he/him/his)

Nathaniel Bond's work lies in postwar Japanese literary dark humor. He is interested in those things that we laugh at despite ourselves, whether because of the setting or the material itself.

20th Century, 21st Century, Affect Studies, Asian Languages & Literature, Japan
Photograph of Reuven Pinnata from the chest up, wearing a black shirt and a red Nintendo jacket, against a green blur of foliage.

Reuven Pinnata (he/him/his)

Reuven Pinnata was born and raised in Surabaya, Indonesia and is currently a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Asian Languages & Literature, Capitalism, Colonialism, Comparative Literature, Cinema & Media, South Asia
Nazry Bahrawi

Nazry Bahrawi (he/him/his)

Nazry Bahrawi is Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Literature and Culture, and Program Coordinator of the Southeast Asian Program at the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Asian Languages & Literature, Race