Regular Faculty

Donald L. Baker
Professor
Ph.D. (Washington)
dbaker(at)mail.ubc.ca

Korean History and Civilization

Kenneth E. Bryant
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (U.C., Berkeley)
ken.bryant[at]ubc.ca

Hindi-Urdu and Indian literature

Stefania Burk
Instructor
Ph.D. (California, Berkeley)
stefania.burk(at)ubc.ca

Medieval Japanese Literature, Culture and Society

Rebecca Chau
Japanese Language Program Coordinator Instructor
Ph.D. (Tsukuba University)
rchau(at)mail.ubc.ca

Japanese Language Coordinator and
Japanese Language Instructor

Jinhua Chen
Professor
Ph.D. (McMaster)
jinhua(at)mail.ubc.ca

East Asian Buddhism

Josephine Chiu- Duke
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (UBC)
chuiduke@mail.ubc.ca

Chinese Intellectual History

Bruce Fulton
Young Bin Min Chair in Korean literature and literary translation, Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Seoul National University)
fultonb(at)mail.ubc.ca

Korean literature and literary translation

Francesca L. Harlow
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Toronto)
francesca.harlow(at)ubc.ca

Social and Economic History of Early Modern India

Tineke Hellwig
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Leiden)
hellwig(at)mail.ubc.ca

Indonesian Language and Literature

Nam-Lin Hur
Professor
Ph.D. (Princeton)
namlin(at)mail.ubc.ca

History of Japan and Religious Culture

Ross King,
Department Head and
Professor
Ph.D. (Harvard)
jrpking(at)mail.ubc.ca

Korean Language and Literature

Insun Lee
Senior Instructor
M.A. (UBC)
insun(at)mail.ubc.ca

Currently on leave: July 1/09-June 30/10

Korean Language Instructor

Christina Laffin
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Columbia)
christina.laffin(at)ubc.ca

Currently on leave until June 30, 2011

Classical Japanese

Duanduan Li
Chinese Language Program Director and Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Columbia)
duanli(at)mail.ubc.ca

Chinese Applied Linguistics

Jessica Main
Instructor II
Ph.D. (McGill)
jessica.main(at)ubc.ca

Buddhism

Joshua Mostow
Professor
Ph.D. (Pennsylvania)
jmostow(at)mail.ubc.ca

Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Art

Anne Murphy
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Columbia)
amurphy2[at]mail.ubc.ca

Punjabi Language, Literature and Sikh Studies

Peter Nosco
Professor
Ph.D. (Columbia)
pnosco(at)mail.ubc.ca

Japanese History and Culture

Harjot S. Oberoi
Professor
Ph.D. (Australian National)
oberoi(at)mail.ubc.ca

South Asian Social & Religious History

Sharalyn Orbaugh
Professor
Ph.D. (Michigan)
sorbaugh(at)mail.ubc.ca

Modern Japanese Literature

Christopher Rea
Assistant Professor
MA. M. Phil., PhD (Columbia)
chris.rea(at)ubc.ca

Modern Chinese Literature

Adheesh Sathaye
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)
adheesh.sathaye(at)ubc.ca

Sanskrit Literature and Folklore

Jerry D. Schmidt
Professor
Ph.D. (U.B.C.)
jschmidt(at)mail.ubc.ca

Chinese Language and Literature

Leo K. Shin
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Princeton)
lkshin(at)mail.ubc.ca

Chinese History (Joint Appointment with the Department of History)

Edward Slingerland
Professor
Ph.D. (Stanford University)
edward.slingerland(at)ubc.ca

Chinese Thought, Philosophy and Religion

Catherine Swatek
Associate Professor
Ph.D. (Columbia)
cswatek(at)mail.ubc.ca

Chinese Language and Pre-Modern Literature