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Aidana Bolatbekkyzy

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  • Affiliation: student
  • Title: PhD candidate
  • Phone: 541-346-4084
  • Office: Friendly Hall 114
  • City: Eugene
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate
  • Adviser: Rachel DiNitto
  • Interests: confinement literature

Ai-Ting Chung

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  • Affiliation: gtf
  • Title: Japanese GE
  • Phone: 541-346-4656
  • Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
  • Affiliated Departments: East Asian Languages
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate
  • Interests: Visual cultural studies, cinema, anime

Rachel DiNitto

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor, Japanese Literature
  • Additional Title: Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS), East Asian Languages & Literatures
  • Phone: 541-346-4012
  • Office: 301 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Monday 11:00-11:50, Wednesday 3:30-4:30 or by appointment. Friendly Hall 301
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies
  • Teaching Level: Doctoral, Masters, Undergraduate
  • Interests: Japanese literature, nuclear issues, environmental humanities

Alisa Freedman

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  • Title: Professor, Japanese Literature, Cultural Studies, and Gender
  • Additional Title: Editor-in-Chief, U.S.-Japan Women's Journal
  • Phone: 541-979-7794
  • Office: 404 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Fridays, 10:30-12:00 on Zoom (Please email for an appointment.)
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies
  • Interests: Modern Japanese literature, popular culture, youth culture, visual media, digital culture, urban studies, and gender

Teppei Fukuda

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  • Affiliation: graduate student
  • Title: Graduate Student (doctoral)
  • Phone: 541-346-4084
  • Office: Friendly Hall 114
  • City: Eugene
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate
  • Interests: Japanese aesthetics related to seasons, Japanese poetry, Manga, Japanese Onomatopoeia, Translation

Yukari Furikado-Koranda

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
  • Phone: 541-346-4002
  • Office: 313 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: W/F 12:15pm-1:45pm or by appointment

Reiko Hashimoto

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
  • Phone: 541-346-4089
  • Office: 413 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: MW 11:00 - 12:30

Kaori Idemaru

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Professor, Japanese Linguistics
  • Phone: 541-346-4007
  • Office: 302 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: on leave in Fall 22 and Winter 23
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies
  • Website: Website

Rika Ikei

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
  • Phone: 541-346-4035
  • Office: 408 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: WF 9:00-10:30 AM or by appointment
  • Affiliated Departments: Japanese
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate

Stephen Kohl

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  • Affiliation: emeritus
  • Title: Associate Professor Emeritus, Japanese Literature
  • Phone: 541-346-4006
  • Office: 308 Friendly Hall
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies

Flora Lam

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  • Affiliation: graduate student
  • Title: Graduate Student
  • Office: FR027
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate
  • Adviser: Kaori Idemaru
  • Interests: second language acquisition, bilingualism, multilingualism

Kumiko McDowell

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  • Title: PhD candidate
  • Phone: 541-346-1855
  • Office: 121 Knight Library
  • City: Eugene
  • Adviser: Glynne Walley
  • Interests: Japanese pre-modern culture

Sayaka Merriam

  • Affiliation: graduate student
  • Title: PhD Student
  • Adviser: Glynne Walley
  • Interests: Japanese Literature, Translation Studies

Naoko Nakadate

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
  • Phone: 541-346-0047
  • Office: 410 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: M&T 10:00-11:30 or by appointment
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate

Yoko O'Brien

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  • Affiliation: faculty
  • Title: Senior Instructor II, Japanese Language
  • Phone: 541-346-3050
  • Office: 415 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: MW 2:00-3:30
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate

Shan Ren

  • Affiliation: student
  • Title: PhD
  • Phone: 541-346-4656
  • Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
  • City: Eugene
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate
  • Adviser: Glynne Walley
  • Interests: Early modern Japanese literature

Tim Strikwerda

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  • Affiliation: student
  • Title: PhD Student
  • Phone: 541-346-4656
  • Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
  • Adviser: Rachel DiNitto
  • Interests: Postwar Japanese literature, film, and cultural history.

Glynne Walley

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  • Title: Associate Professor, Japanese Literature
  • Office: 423 Friendly Hall
  • Office Hours: Spring 2024: Tuesdays 4-6 pm
  • Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Comics and Cartoon Studies, Translation Studies
  • Research Website: Research
  • Website: Website

Xiaoyu Wang

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  • Affiliation: student employee
  • Title: PhD candidate
  • Additional Title: Japanese GE
  • Phone: 541-346-4656
  • Office: UO Annex, Ste 3
  • Teaching Level: Undergraduate
  • Interests: Okinawan literature, minority literature, Japanese television drama