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Faculty, Staff & Alumni Graduate Students
- Department Chair & Directors
Eriko Sato
Associate Professor | Chair
Office: Humanities 1123
Office Hours: in person
SPING 2025
TU: 9:00-12:00 pm
or by appointment
Jiwon Hwang
Assistant Professor | Director of Asian Languages
Office: Humanities 1128
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025W: 11:00-12:30 pm in person
TH: 4:00-5:30 pm via zoom
or by appointment
Atsuko Oyama
Lecturer | Graduate Program Director
Office: Humanities 1114
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
TH: 9:30-11:30 am via zoom
TH: 12:45-1:45 pm in person
or by appointment
Gregory Ruf
Associate Professor | Undergraduate Program Director
Office: Humanities 1126
Office hours:
SPRING 2025
W: 2:00-3:00 pm in person
TH: 10:00-12:00 pm in person
or by appointment
Zoom office hours are available by appointment
- Full Time Faculty
Nerissa S. Balce
Associate Professor
marianerissa.balce-cortes@stonybrook.edu
Office: Humanities 1115
Office Hours: via zoom
SPRING 2025
M/TU: 12:00-1:30 pm
Schedule meeting here
or by appointment
PH: 631-437-0985
William Chittick
SUNY Distinguished Professor
william.chittick@stonybrook.edu
Office: Humanities 1120
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
ON LEAVE
Agnes Weiyun He
Professor
Office: Humanities 1116
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
On Leave
Jiwon Hwang
Assistant Professor | Director of Asian Languages
Office: Humanities 1128
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
W: 11:00-12:30 pm in person
TH: 4:00-5:30 pm via zoom
or by appointment
Jung Min Kang
Lecturer
Office: HUM 1043
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
W: 9:30-11:00 am via zoom
F: 10:40-12:10 pm in person
or by appointment
Hongkyung Kim
Professor | Director of the Center for Korean Studies
631-632-7362
Office: Humanities 1124
Office Hours: via zoom
SPRING 2025
M: 10:30-12:00 pm
W: 11:30-1:00 pm
or by appointment
Sandra So Hee Chi Kim
Assistant Professor
Office: HUM 1095
Office Hours: via zoom
SPRING 2025
W: 9:00-12:00 pm
or by appointment
* Must email professor for zoom link.
Tingda (Hannah) Li
Lecturer | Director, Program in China Studies
631-632-7362
Office: Humanities 1118
Office Hours: * in person
SPRING 2025
M/W: 11:00-12:30 pm
(* please schedule an appointment in advance, here)
or by appointment
Sachiko Murata
Professor
(631) 632-4353
Office: Humanities 1121
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
ON LEAVE
Eva Nagase
Senior Lecturer
631-632-1423
Office: Humanities 1125
Office Hours: in person
SPRING 2025
TU/TH: 8:20-9:20 am and 12:30-1:30 pm
or by appointment
Chikako Nakamura
Lecturer
chikako.nakamura@stonybrook.edu
Office: HUM 1043
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
TU: 1:00-1:40 pm in person
W: 10:00-11:10 am via zoom
TH: 3:30-4:30 pm in person
or by appointment
Andrew J. Nicholson
Associate Professor | Director, Program in South Asian Studies
andrew.nicholson@stonybrook.edu
Office: Humanities 1113
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
TU/TH: 3:30-4:30 pm in person
W: 2:30-3:30 pm via zoom
or by appointmentAtsuko Oyama
Lecturer | Graduate Program Director
Office: Humanities 1114
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
TH: 9:30-11:30 am via zoom
TH: 12:45-1:45 pm in person
or by appointmentGregory Ruf
Associate Professor | Undergraduate Program Director
Office: Humanities 1126
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
TU/TH: 8:20-9:20 am & 12:20-1:30 pm in person
or by appointment
Zoom office hours are available by appointmentEriko Sato
Associate Professor | Chair
Office: Humanities 1123
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
TU: 9:00-12:00 pm in person
or by appointment
Hong Li Snyder
Lecturer
Office: 1040
Office Hours: in person or via *zoom
*please make appointment for zoom office hours
SPRING 2025
M/W: 1:30-3:00 pm
or by appointment
Shikaripur N. Sridhar
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
Office: Humanities 1119
Office Hours :
SPRING 2025
TU: 2:00-3:30 pm in person (LIB. E-5350)
TH: 2:00-3:30 pm via zoom
or by appointment
In person hours available by appointment, in the Melville Library - E 5350631-632-9742
E.K. Tan
Associate Professor
Office: Humanities 1108
Office Hours: in person or via zoom
SPRING 2025
M: 2:00-3:00 pm & 5:00-6:00 pm
W: 5:00-6:00 pm
Sthaneshwar Timalsina
Nirmal K. and Augustina Mattoo Endowed Chair in Classical Indic Humanities
sthaneshwar.timalsina@stonybrook.edu
Office: 1093
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
M/W: 1:30-3:00 pm in person
or by appointment
Yi Wang
Assistant Professor
Office: Humanities 1117
Office Hours: via zoom
SPRING 2025
M/W: 3:30-5:00 pm
or by appointment
Dongmei Zeng
Senior Lecturer
Office: Humanities 1127
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
TU/TH: 12:30-2:00 pm in person
or by appointment - Part-Time Faculty
Yu Jung Bae
Adjunct Lecturer
SPRING 2025
Not teaching this semester
Jonathan Corrado
Adjunct Lecturer
jonathan.corrado@stonybrook.edu
SPRING 2025
Not teaching this semesterYasuko Fujita
Adjunct Lecturer
Office: Humanities 1036
Office Hours: in person
SPRING 2025
M: 1:00-2:30 pm
TH: 2:00-3:30 pm
or by appointment
Xiao Ha
Adjunct Lecturer
Office: Humanities 1039
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
TU: 5:00-6:00 pm in person
W: 5:30-7:30 pm via zoom
or by appointment
Michael Kim
Adjunct Lecturer
Office:
Office Hours: via zoom
WINTER 2025
*please email Prof. Kim for appointment
Rachel Kim
Adjunct Lecturer
Office: Humanities 1036
Office Hours: in person
SPRING 2025
M/W/F: 12:00-1:00 pm
or by appointment
* Zoom office hours available by appointment. Email instructor for zoom link.
Sehrie Lee
Adjunct Lecturer
Office: Humanities 1043
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
TU: 1:15-3:15 pm in person
F: 2:15-3:15 pm in person
or by appointment
Ayaka Mayo
Adjunct Lecturer
Office: Virtual
Office Hours: via zoom
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
M/W: 12:30-2:00 pm
or by appointment
Ian Nicolay
Adjunct Lecturer
Office: Virtual
Office Hours: Via Zoom
SPRING 2025
TU: 2:00-5:00 pm EST
or by appointment
Aruna Sharma
Adjunct Lecturer
Office: Humanities 1039
Office Hours: in person
SPRING 2025
M: 2:15-3:15 pm & 4:45-5:45 pm
TH: 4:45-5:45 pm
or by appointment
Weiwei Zhang
Adjunct Lecturer
Office: Humanities 1036
Office Hours:
SPRING 2025
TU/TH: 12:30-2:00 pm in person
or by appointment - Affiliated Faculty
- Retired & Emeritus Faculty
- Alumni Graduate Students
Gillian Fisher-Reid
Fall 2020
THESIS:
"Pokémon Go Community Day: Self Interest, Socialization and Community Building"
Advisor:
Atsuko OyamaYasuko Fujita
Fall 2024
THESIS:
Balancing Approaches in Teaching Japanese as an Additional Language: The Need for Instructor Adaptation
Advisor:
Eriko SatoTiara Hess
Spring 2019
THESIS:
"Rebellion in Visual Kei"
Advisor:
Eva NagaseYifang Huang
Fall 2020
THESIS:
"Engaging Chinese Male Consumers in the Cosmetics Market Analysis form: Cultural and Business Perspectives"
Advisor:
Eriko SatoJasmeet Kaur
Fall 2019
THESIS:
“Socio-cultural Roles, Levelof Freedom, and Economic Growth of Women: Case Study of Women Working at BPOs and ITES in India”
Advisors:
S.N. Sridhar
Gregory RufCoral Kopetz
Spring 2020
THESIS:
"An Exploration of Tattoo Culture in Japan"
Advisor:
Eva NagaseBin Zhao Liang
Fall 2021
PROJECT:
"Kayo-rokyoku: Reflection of Society"
Advisor:
Eriko SatoXinran Ming
Spring 2019
THESIS:
"Cross-cultural Socio-political Idealogies found in Multilingual Website News"
Advisor:
Eriko SatoRemy Moon
Spring 2018
PROJECT:
"Am I Worthy?: Three Filipino American Stories"
Advisor:
Maria Nerssa Balce-CortesChikako Nakamura
Spring 2020
THESIS:
"The Life of a Text: Original, Translation, and Language"
Advisor:
Eriko SatoTianyi Wu
Spring 2019
THESIS:
"Violence Towards Women and Ride-Sharing Services: An investigation of the two rape and murder incidents on the Didi hitch service in 2018 China"
Advisor:
Atsuko OyamaYufei Wu
Spring 2020
THESIS:
"Syncretism in Cuisine Culture of Mount Jiuhua"
Advisor:
Gregory RufQiyuan Yang
Fall 2018
THESIS:
"Language Shift in Chinese Diaspora: from Multidialectalt o Multilingual"
Advisor:
Agnes He - Current Graduate Students
Nuoyi Chen
Abudurexiti Kaiwushaer
ShuNing Lin
I'm interested in new Chinese pedagogy, focusing on contemporary Chinese culture and internet lexicons to develop innovative language teaching materials and methods for learners of all levels.
Ayaka Mayo
I am passionate about Japanese language education and exploring teaching methods that foster intercultural communication.
Veronica Peck
My passion is increasing educational access, especially for foreign languages. Focusing on remote Japanese classes, I want to compare the learning outcomes in asynchronous and synchronous modalities; What works best for speaking, listening, reading, and writing skill development? - Visiting Scholars
